May 5, 2025 • Blog
Yes, we can still build
Sometimes it feels like our government can’t do big, important things anymore.
Topic: Interstate 20
August 16, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 16, 2024
If the individual provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire at the end of next year, tax filing will get more complicated for millions of Americans.
January 5, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 5, 2024
What issues will lawmakers want to tackle in an election year?
December 1, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 1, 2023
When deciding what people value when deciding where to live, work and raise a family, people and businesses tend to favor states with low taxes.
June 23, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 23, 2023
The end of the public health emergency meant that states would resume doing what they had done for the first 50-plus years of Medicaid.
June 14, 2023 • Commentary
Investment in transportation continues to grow
Since the failed transportation tax of a decade ago, transportation funding has increased from $800 million to over $2 billion.
May 4, 2023 • Blog
Monica’s story
Monica O’Neal is lucky to be alive. Despite having good health insurance, Monica could not find a neurologist to operate. Why not?
February 10, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 10, 2023
It’s Friday! As rising housing costs continue to frustrate developers and buyers, it remains important for citizens to understand what goes into those costs – especially if they seem arbitrary or unnecessarily […]
January 26, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 27, 2023
It’s Friday! As Georgia celebrates National School Choice Week, the legislature is already looking to expand the tax credit scholarship program. And other proposals might move forward that give parents […]
January 28, 2022
Driving Change: The Promise of Per-Mile Charges for Georgia Transportation
As technology, policy and politics change the transportation landscape in Georgia, the state will have to reconsider how it funds transportation infrastructure.
July 8, 2021 • Blog
Have Tolls, Will Travel
When it comes to transportation policy in Georgia, good – or at least, better – things often come to those who wait. A decade ago, regional T-SPLOST referendums were pitched […]
April 16, 2021
Friday Facts: April 16, 2021
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “One single object … [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” – Thomas Jefferson (1825) “Market […]
May 24, 2019
Managed Lanes, The Untolled Story
Since the opening of the reversible express toll lanes on I-75 and I-575, enough commuters are choosing to pay the tolls that it’s making an enormous difference to traffic flow […]
March 9, 2018
Friday Facts: March 9, 2018
It’s Friday! Events March 27: Second Chance Month in April, sponsored by Prison Fellowship, celebrates brighter futures for those who have repaid their debt to society. The Georgia Public Policy […]
January 28, 2016
Atlanta Business Chronicle Quotes Foundation on Ga. Transportation
” … putting more buses in managed lanes would be far more cost-effective.” A January 22, 2016 article by Dave Williams in The Atlanta Business Chronicle quotes Foundation Vice President […]
November 22, 2013
Making a Brave Move on the Transportation Front
How do policy-makers prevent the area around I-75 and I-285 from becoming completely gridlocked when the Braves play? By Baruch Feigenbaum The announcement that the Atlanta Braves are abandoning Turner […]
August 28, 2013
Reason Foundation Proposes New Northern East-West Bypass
It is somewhat understandable why the Atlanta highway system was built like a wheel with the city at the center and interstates fanning out from the core. Think about our […]
April 29, 2011
Friday Facts: April 29th, 2011
It’s Friday! Quotations – “The fact is higher tax rates could increase total revenue or they could decrease it. Conversely, lower tax rates could decrease total revenue or they could […]
April 27, 2010
Freight Logistics Moving in the Right Direction in Georgia
By Mike Klein Think about this image. You are traveling down one of Georgia’s splendid highways and suddenly a train carrying coal hurtles past in a near blur. […]
November 21, 2008
Road to Congestion Relief Leads … Somewhere Else
By Benita M. Dodd “If you build it, they will come,” was the mantra for opponents of road-building in metro Atlanta, the economic engine of Georgia. So we didn’t build […]
July 27, 2007
Perspective on Transportation Innovations: Concessions, and Then Some
By Benita M. Dodd Any elected official who proposes raising gas taxes or fees to fund transportation infrastructure needs in Georgia is probably not planning on re-election. Yet every policy-maker […]
March 2, 2006
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Georgia Moves on Transportation
By Benita M. Dodd Transportation proposals are chasing lawmakers at such an exciting and breathtaking pace this year that the convergence of plans under the Gold Dome seems destined to […]