July 13, 2012
Friday Facts: July 13, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” […]
Topic: Louisiana
May 18, 2012
License to Kill Business
By Benita M. Dodd From a historic building on the banks of the Etowah River in Rome, Ga., Ed Watters and his co-workers design elaborate gardens and manage a successful […]
May 3, 2012
Governor Deal: “Parents Are The Ultimate Local Control”
By Mike Klein Governor Nathan Deal traveled to Cherokee County on Thursday morning to deliver a message about charter schools. “Parents quite frankly are the ultimate local control,” the Governor […]
April 13, 2012
Friday Facts: April 13th, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “Government has an important role in helping develop a country’s economic foundation. But the critical test is whether government is genuinely working to […]
April 11, 2012
The Serious Challenge to Georgia’s Low-Tax Economic Strategy
By Mike Klein Georgia built its economic strategy over the past couple decades around being a good place to raise a family with low taxes and a business friendly environment. […]
March 23, 2012
Friday Facts: March 23, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “More frightening than any particular beliefs or policies is an utter lack of any sense of a need to test those beliefs and policies […]
January 25, 2012
Tax Foundation: Georgia 34th for Best Business Tax Climate
This morning the conservative Tax Foundation released its comprehensive analysis of state tax structure policies that impact business growth. The message for Georgia: We Can Do Better. Georgia is ranked […]
August 17, 2011
More Southern and Georgia Students are Taking the ACT
There are two big cats in the national college admission test industry – the SAT which is familiar in Georgia because that is what most high school students here take, […]
July 13, 2011
Corrections Reform: Do We Prefer Taxpayers or Tax Burdens?
Originally published April 21, 2010 Each day across Georgia, the state Department of Corrections prepares three meals per day to feed a population that is nearly equal to the number […]
July 13, 2011
Have Tough Crime Initiatives Gone Past Diminishing Returns?
Originally published December 12, 2010 Georgia has a significant corrections system challenge and there’s no getting around that fact. Nationally one in every 100 adults is behind state prison or […]
July 13, 2011
Corrections Reform Will Focus on Sentencing Alternatives
Originally published February 17, 2011 Georgia will consider alternatives to incarceration of adult non-violent offenders in a sweeping criminal justice review announced Wednesday afternoon by Governor Nathan Deal. Reforms could […]
June 8, 2011
Georgia Ranks 41st Nationally in Gross Domestic Product Annual Growth
Georgia likes to describe itself as an economic growth engine. Real gross domestic product growth data released this week by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis confirmed progress but there […]
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 […]
February 3, 2011
New Study Shows Medicaid Expansion Could Outstrip Georgia’s Primary Care Capacity
Georgia ranks second in a new study by the The New England Journal of Medicine on the challenges of serving Obamacare’s dramatically increased Medicaid population. "Eight states – Oklahoma, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, […]
August 27, 2010
Friday Facts: August 27th, 2010
It’s Friday! Quotable – “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” — Ronald Reagan […]
April 20, 2010
Thinking Outside the Cell: Texas Innovates To Correct Course in Prison System
By Mike Klein Each day across Georgia, the state Department of Corrections prepares enough meals to feed the population of the city of Marietta. Breakfast and lunch are served […]
July 10, 2009
State Tax Incentives a Bad Business
By Phred Barnet Giving a tax incentive to a business to encourage economic development sounds like a great idea, but it is not. Tax breaks for businesses are little more […]
February 20, 2009
Nucleus of Energy Funding Discussion is Risk to Georgia’s Ratepayers
By Kelly McCutchen The ongoing debate over how best to finance nuclear power plant construction in Georgia has generated more energy than utilities do. One side argues it will save […]
February 22, 2008
Show Us the Money
By Kelly McCutchen “We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man […]
October 13, 2006
Government interference sends the wrong signal on broadband
By Kelly McCutchen Telecommuting, telemedicine, virtual schools and other high tech advances hold great promise for a large, rural state like Georgia, but roadblocks to investment will make progress much like […]
September 22, 2004
Agenda 2005: A Guide to the Issues – Welfare
Welfare Agenda Reduce unnecessary new entries to welfare rolls and strengthen work requirements Minimize returns to welfare Focus on aiding hardship cases Encourage public-private partnerships Remove barriers to entrepreneurship Eliminate […]
February 18, 2003
Tax Amnesty: Hidden Costs Outweigh Benefits
By Morgan Smith During the next few weeks, Georgia’s legislators will be looking for creative solutions to the state’s budget crisis. One possibility being considered is a tax amnesty, which […]
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