March 26, 2021
It’s Friday! Friday’s Freshest: Visit georgiapolicy.org to read the Foundation’s latest commentary, “Don’t Let Strings on Covid Cash Make Georgia Feds’ Puppet,” by Kyle Wingfield. Memory Lane: The Georgia Public […]
March 25, 2021 • Foundation News
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation is a co-signer on a letter from a coalition of organizations that was sent to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The text is below. Dear […]
March 19, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, has gauged the pulse of Georgia for reform since its early days, as this […]
March 17, 2021 • Blog
The work continues under the Gold Dome, but look farther north to understand Georgia’s future. In Washington, the most evenly divided Congress in two decades wants to turn states into […]
March 12, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, has championed education options since its beginning. In 2012, Georgia legislators approved the State […]
March 10, 2021 • Blog
To look back at my calendar this time a year ago is to relive another era. I’d just returned from a three-day conference with peers from around the country. I […]
March 5, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: As the Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, this article from 1992 is a reminder that many of the issues that concerned […]
March 3, 2021 • Blog
The appropriate use of public funds should be a priority for policymakers. But those who object to legislation to provide more education options for Georgia’s children, on the premise that […]
February 26, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Zell Miller, who was governor of Georgia before becoming U.S. senator for Georgia, died March 23, 2018, at age 86. His birthday would have been February […]
February 24, 2021 • Blog
Georgia’s lawmakers have another opportunity to help thousands of children find the best education for their own unique needs. Rep. Wes Cantrell, a Republican from Woodstock, has proposed allowing state […]
February 22, 2021 • Foundation News
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s 2021 publications are listed below by date of publication. Click on a link to read. Sign up here to be added to the Foundation’s media […]
February 19, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Expanding school choice has been front and center for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation since its inception, as this article from 1992 demonstrates. The Foundation, which […]
February 12, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Rogers Wade (right), then-president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, chats with U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona after McCain’s keynote address at the Foundation’s 15th […]
February 5, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Reforming Georgia’s certificate-of-need (CON) laws, which protect medical monopolies, has been a priority since the early days of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, as shown in […]
January 29, 2021
It’s Friday! Today’s Friday Facts has an education focus, to mark the 11th annual celebration of National School Choice Week, which kicked off January 24. Memory Lane: Education options for […]
January 22, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The debate about education funding is not new, as demonstrated in this clipping from a 1992 editorial in The Augusta Chronicle. As the Foundation celebrates its […]
January 20, 2021 • Blog
What to do with your money is the topic this week at the Gold Dome. There is even more reason than usual to pay attention. State officials expect to have […]
January 15, 2021
It’s Friday! As the Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, each Friday Facts will include a little trip down Memory Lane from our three decades of […]
January 15, 2021 • Commentary
Budget hearings will begin Tuesday under the Gold Dome (and via Zoom, amid COVID-19 precautions). At his State of the State address Thursday before a joint sess
January 13, 2021 • Blog
Georgia may be a purple state now in national politics, or even a blue one given the trifecta Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock completed in this past week’s U.S. […]
January 8, 2021
It’s Friday! Happy New Year! Welcome to the first issue of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Friday Facts for 2021. This is a special year for the Foundation: We’re celebrating […]
December 28, 2020 • Blog
Has there ever been a year that better informed what the next year’s work ought to be? Perhaps, but the to-do list for Georgia in 2021 clearly takes its cues […]
December 23, 2020 • Blog
This looks to be a different kind of Christmas. Many will carry on as before, but some will choose a socially distanced Yule. Some will be forced to keep away […]
December 22, 2020 • Blog
Count down to Christmas 2020, Georgia Public Policy Foundation style! 12 Months of Insightful Commentary We’re committed to bringing you the best, most thought-provoking commentary on the issues affecting Georgians. […]
December 21, 2020 • Press Release
Atlanta – The Georgia Public Policy Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of Jay Neely and Jeb Stewart to the Board of Trustees, bringing the total number of board […]
December 18, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, […]
December 16, 2020 • Blog
I don’t know what you’ve asked of Santa Claus for Christmas, but one thing ought to be on everyone’s wish list: a big dose of optimism. After the year we’ve […]
December 11, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never […]
December 9, 2020 • Blog
Americans love rankings, love to see where we stand compared to our rivals. The AP college football poll, to name one famous ranking, exists ostensibly to determine the best team […]
December 4, 2020
It’s Friday! Thanks to the generosity of supporters, the Foundation’s Giving Tuesday campaign raised more than $10,000 this week! Your contributions are “Changing Georgia Policy, Changing Georgians’ Lives!” Quotes of […]
Showing 271–300 of 510 posts