May 5, 2025 • Blog
Yes, we can still build
Sometimes it feels like our government can’t do big, important things anymore.
Topic: Interstate 285
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.
August 14, 2024 • Commentary
We don’t do hard things anymore
Those who want homes that are more affordable, electricity that remains reliable, and roads that are less congested should speak up.
June 21, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 21, 2024
A conservative approach to early childhood education.
May 10, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 10, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission recently voted to approve a new final rule banning non compete agreements across the entire economy.
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.
June 9, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 9, 2023
Atlanta's taxis are struggling. So what did they do? Asked the City Council to raise the rates they charge customers.
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 […]
September 30, 2022 • Commentary
Toll Roads: A Solution to Metro Atlanta’s Traffic Nightmare
A necessary part of the solution to Atlanta's traffic problem is creating more toll roads.
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.
October 1, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: October 1, 2021
In 2006, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation published a transportation study: “Reducing Congestion in Atlanta: A Bold New Approach to Increasing Mobility.”
August 27, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 27, 2021
The mayor of Orlando has asked city residents to conserve water to help preserve liquid oxygen for medical use for covid patients, according to NBC News. Liquid
July 9, 2021 • Commentary
New Express Lanes to Ease Taxpayer Toll
Atlanta Braves’ fans still chuckle about Pascual Perez, who missed his start for the Braves after getting lost on Interstate 285. It was August 1982, and the 25-year-old drove around the 64-mile beltway […]
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 […]
January 31, 2020
Friday Facts: January 31, 2020
It’s Friday! About 300 friends and supporters joined us Tuesday night at the Fabulous Fox in Atlanta for the Foundation’s 29th Anniversary Celebration and Freedom Award Dinner. The keynote speaker […]
November 8, 2019
Friday Facts: November 8, 2019
It’s Friday! Events November 15: It’s just one week away! The 2019 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum comes to the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly on Friday, November 15. Five issues. Five think […]
October 11, 2019
Friday Facts: October 11, 2019
It’s Friday! Events November 15: The agenda is online for the 2019 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum, which features nearly two dozen policy experts and leaders on issues affecting Georgia: education, […]
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 […]
May 3, 2019
Still Asking for Whom Georgia’s Roads are Tolled?
By Benita M. Dodd The toll lanes are coming! The toll lanes are coming! Despite a lengthy history of tolling in Georgia, many current residents appear intimidated or uninformed about […]
April 5, 2019
Friday Facts: April 5, 2019
It’s Friday! Events April 10: “Education Choice: A Case Study in Policy and Politics,” a Foundation Happy Hour Policy Discussion in Athens at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, in […]
August 31, 2018
Friday Facts: August 31, 2018
It’s Friday! REGISTER NOW! One Day. Four issues. Sixteen Experts. And just one week to the 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum! The daylong conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel […]
August 2, 2018
Express Toll Lanes: What you need to know
Highlights from an information session with transportation leaders regarding metro area express toll lanes. Express lanes: WSB Radio held an information session with transportation leaders this week about the metro […]
July 20, 2018
Bus Rapid Transit: Fast, Flexible, Forward-thinking
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s Bus Rapid Transit plan for SR 400 is a breath of fresh air amid stale and misguided transit proposals for the metro Atlanta region. By Benita […]
June 21, 2018
Governor Announces BRT Funding for SR 400
Bus Rapid Transit is a flexible step in the right direction. $100 million in General Obligation bonds for BRT infrastructure will be contribute to the SR 400 Express Lanes project. […]
April 5, 2018
Friday Facts: April 5, 2019
It’s Friday! Events April 10: “Education Choice: A Case Study in Policy and Politics,” a Foundation Happy Hour Policy Discussion in Athens at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, in […]
April 7, 2017
Friday Facts: April 7, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away. … Every vote given for Protection is a vote to […]
January 27, 2017
Friday Facts: January 27, 2017
It’s Friday! Events This week is National School Choice Week, and the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Leadership Breakfast on Thursday was among a record-breaking 21,392 taking place across all 50 […]
October 17, 2016
Atlanta Business Chronicle Quotes Foundation on Toll Lane Network
Dave Williams of The Atlanta Business Chronicle quotes Foundation Vice President Benita Dodd extensively in an article in the October 14-20, 2016, edition about the express toll lanes under construction […]
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