November 7, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 7, 2025
A new Georgia Public Policy Foundation report challenges one of the most common narratives in the housing debate.
Topic: Margaret Thatcher
June 30, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 30, 2023
The lack of emphasis on civics, government and political history is the biggest education problem in our country.
March 12, 2021
Friday Facts: 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 […]
September 28, 2018
Friday Facts: September 28, 2018
It’s Friday! Subscribe to the Friday Facts here. Support the Foundation and its mission here. Quotes of note “The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, […]
April 27, 2018
Friday Facts: April 27, 2018
It’s Friday! May 23: Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, keynotes “Telling the Human Story,” an 8 a.m. Leadership Breakfast at the Georgian Club. This event is co-hosted […]
October 6, 2017
Friday Facts: October 6, 2017
It’s Friday! Events October 13: REGISTER TODAY! It’s just one week to the 2017 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum! The daylong event October 13 at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel brings […]
July 21, 2017
Friday Facts: July 21, 2017
It’s Friday! The Georgia Public Policy Foundation regrets to inform friends and supporters of the July 19 passing of Marcia Wade, 76, wife of Rogers Wade, the Foundation’s former president […]
September 26, 2014
Friday Facts: September 26, 2014
It’s Friday! Were you at the hugely successful fifth annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum last week? It was attended by more than 150 legislators, staff, government affairs and business representatives […]
July 25, 2014
Friday Facts: July 25, 2014
July 25, 2014 It’s Friday! Radio talk-show host and former presidential candidate Herman Cain joins an exciting lineup of speakers at the 2014 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum on Sept. 19, […]
July 19, 2013
Friday Facts: July 19, 2013
July 19, 2013 It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. … There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, […]
April 12, 2013
Friday Facts: April 12, 2013
April 12, 2013 It’s Friday! Events April 23: The deadline is April 19 to register for “Telehealth: Taking Health Care to The Next Level,” the Foundation’s next Leadership Breakfast, at […]
December 7, 2012
Friday Facts: December 7, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer … [taking] away from before […]
October 12, 2012
Friday Facts: October 12, 2012
It’s Friday! Events Last chance! Today is the deadline to register for “A Portrait of The Iron Lady,” the Foundation’s noon Policy Briefing Luncheon and Book Forum on Tuesday, October […]
October 4, 2012
Friday Facts: October 5, 2012
It’s Friday! Events October 16: The deadline is Friday, October 12, to register for “A Portrait of The Iron Lady,” a noon Policy Briefing Luncheon and Book Forum keynoted by […]
September 28, 2012
Friday Facts: September 28, 2012
It’s Friday! Events October 16: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher turns 87 on October 13. The Foundation marks the birthday of this remarkable leader with a Policy Briefing Luncheon […]
September 25, 2012 • Press Release
Foundation Policy Briefing Luncheon, Book Forum Celebrates The Iron Lady’s Birthday with Thatcher advisor John Blundell
GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 25, 2012 Contact Benita Dodd at 404-256-4050 Foundation’s Policy Briefing Luncheon and Book Forum Celebrates The Iron Lady’s Birthday with […]
September 21, 2012
Friday Facts: September 21, 2012
It’s Friday! The Foundation unveils, “Getting Georgia Moving: Plan B for Transportation,” today at 3 p.m. during the third annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum at the W Atlanta Midtown (188 […]
September 14, 2012
Friday Facts: September 14, 2012
September 14, 2012 It’s Friday! The deadline is Monday to register for the third annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum, which takes place on Friday, September 21, at the W Hotel […]
September 9, 2012 • Press Release
Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady
October 13 is the 87th birthday of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female Prime Minister, who served three consecutive terms (1979-1990) and is one of the dominant political figures of 20th-century […]
September 7, 2012
Friday Facts: September 7, 2012
September 7, 2012 It’s Friday! Register now! The third annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum takes place on Friday, September 21, at the W Hotel in Midtown Atlanta. This year’s event […]
August 30, 2012
Friday Facts: August 31, 2012
August 31, 2012 It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that “all powers not delegated to the United States, by […]
August 24, 2012
Friday Facts: August 24, 2012
August 24, 2012 It’s Friday! Quotes of Note Correction: Two of the Quotes of Note in last week’s Friday Facts were incorrectly attributed to Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. Our […]
August 17, 2012
Friday Facts: August 17, 2012
August 17, 2012 It’s Friday! Visit the Foundation’s new Web site at www.georgiapolicy.org then e-mail us at to tell us what you think of it! Quotes of note “If […]
August 9, 2012
Friday Facts
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul.” – George […]
August 3, 2012
Friday Facts
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination […]
July 27, 2012
Friday Facts: July 27, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “All of the progress that the U.S. has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from […]
July 20, 2012
Friday Facts
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” – T.S. Eliot – “But […]
July 8, 2011
Medicare or Medi-scare?
By Ronald E. Bachman Frightening seniors about Medicare changes is often referred to as Medi-scare. All Americans should be scared: In the coming years, 78 million baby boomers will place […]
January 27, 2006
Commentary: Property Rights, Politics and Policy
By Benita M. Dodd The 2005-2006 legislative term has already seen at least three dozen pieces of legislation that reference eminent domain, the authority of government to take land from […]