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February 18, 2025 • Blog

TORT REFORM: The Georgia law that business owners hate the most

By Chris Butler

Georgia law can hold a business owner civilly liable for a criminal act that happens on his property, one that the business owner had nothing to do with.

June 15, 2023 • Blog

Georgia officials get more daring with waste, fraud and abuse

By Chris Butler

The latest stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.

June 8, 2016

AJC Quotes Foundation on Atlanta Streetcar

The Sunday June 5, 2016 edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution included a column by its Senior Managing Editor on the Atlanta Streetcar entitled, “Boondoggle or future boon?” in which Foundation Vice […]

May 4, 2016

Clinton’s Higher Education Proposal Only Makes Our Problems Worse

Clinton’s proposed expansion of federal subsidized loans will lead to the unintended consequences of higher tuition costs and less state spending on higher education. Gary Wolfram of the Pope Center […]

June 24, 2014

Checking Up On Health: June 24, 2014

Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd My pet peeve when I visit the doctor’s office is waiting. I arrive on time. Then I wait. I don’t touch the […]

August 12, 2013

Organize The Team, And Then Train The Teachers

Digital learning has become widespread and has pushed educators toward more technology training for newly minted and existing teachers. In this article, Clayton Christensen Institute co-founder Michael Horn explores the […]

March 19, 2013

Checking Up On Health: March 19, 2013

Health policy news and views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Upcoming Foundation event on telehealth: Find out what’s happening around the nation and in Georgia – and what needs to […]

January 18, 2013

Electronic Medical Records Keep Natural Disasters From Turning into Personal Health Care Disasters

Studies show that this nation trails a number of other countries in the use of electronic medical record systems. By Albert Woodard Hurricane Sandy is only the most recent reminder […]

October 19, 2012

Friday Facts: October 19, 2012

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “There exists in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, […]

September 4, 2012

Powered Up at Home but Powered Down in the Classroom

(Editor’s Note: Rick Ogston is the founder of Carpe Diem Schools in Yuma, Arizona. Ogston will discuss education innovation at the 2012 Georgia Public Policy Forum on Friday, September 21 […]

August 14, 2012

Will Artificial Intelligence Books Make Studehttps://gppftransfer.wpengine.com/wp-admin/index.phpnts More Powerful?

By Eric Wearne School systems have debated the use of technology in the classroom for years. Several stories, from Education Week and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, covered the topic just […]

June 4, 2012

Half a Cheer for Tablets in the Classroom

The high school I attended, decades ago, was considered cutting edge technologically. The internet had just been born, and my school (a new one), was going to have six desktop […]

March 13, 2012

Checking Up on Health

Health Policy Briefs: March 13, 2012 Compiled by Benita Dodd Georgia Health Care Update event: The deadline is approaching and seats are filling quickly for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s […]

January 5, 2012

Will Georgia Abandon ’65 Rule’ for Classroom Spending?

A state education finance commission composed of lawmakers and others inside the learning game has recommended Georgia abandon the “65 rule” that mandated school districts spend that percentage of state […]

October 10, 2011

Could National Legal Defense Fund Help Georgia Charters?

MACON – Hundreds of charter public school advocates who traveled here last week heard Apple founder Steve Jobs remembered, discussion about a proposed national legal defense fund to help protect […]

August 26, 2011

Friday Facts: August 26th, 2011

It’s Friday! Quotations – “We are fast verging to anarchy & confusion! … They are determined to annihilate all debts public & private, and have Agrarian Laws, which are easily […]

May 27, 2011

Friday Facts: May 27th, 2011

It’s Friday! Quotations – “The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.” -William Havard – “Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day […]

September 24, 2010

Friday Facts: September 24, 2010

It’s Friday! Notable – “When normal people hear about a budget cut, we assume the amount of money to be spent is less than the previous year’s allocation. But that’s […]