September 17, 2024 • Blog
Georgia’s childcare providers say out of control lawsuits could put them out of business
It’s increasingly difficult for Georgia’s childcare centers to find companies who will insure them.
Topic: Marietta
March 8, 2024 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of March 4
Since Crossover Day, lawmakers have been busy working on bills that passed the other chamber as we close in on Sine Die.
March 8, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 8, 2024
Now that we are past Crossover Day, what will the final weeks of this session hold?
February 23, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 23, 2024
Georgia Public Policy Foundation has compiled the data the Department of Education did not release and have made it available for you.
February 16, 2024 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of February 12
The Georgia legislature passed the halfway point of the 2024 session this week as lawmakers continue their work before Crossover Day.
February 16, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 16, 2024
We can increase housing affordability, not with taxpayer subsidies, but by removing regulations that limit what types of houses can be built and where.
February 9, 2024 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of February 5
Lawmakers are busy as they near the halfway point of the 2024 legislative session.
February 9, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 9, 2024
Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia legislators are protecting workers’ right to privacy in union elections
February 1, 2024 • Commentary
Cobb County transit plan has a lot to like but also potential problems
Rather than stage another MARTA referendum, the county is trying a lower-cost approach that adds 108 miles of fixed-route service.
January 26, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 26, 2024
This week we celebrate National School Choice Week in Georgia.
November 17, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 17, 2023
Education leaders have descended upon Atlanta for ExcelInEd’s National Summit on Education.
November 3, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 3, 2023
Georgia’s next Election Day is not in 2024. It’s next Tuesday.
September 29, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 29, 2023
The Augusta Birth Center remains unopened thanks to an arcane state law known as Certificate of Need.
September 7, 2023 • Blog
Senate Study Committee holds meeting on Rural Personnel Recruitment
Allowing healthcare providers to practice to the full extent of their education and training was recommended.
August 25, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 25, 2023
The 2023 Georgia Housing Summit will dive into the issue of housing affordability in Georgia.
August 18, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 18, 2023
It’s tax time for local governments across Georgia, the season when local governments review their updated tax digests and set their millage rates.
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.
April 14, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 14, 2023
It’s Friday! We are excited to welcome The Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon to the Georgia Freedom Dinner in a matter of days. But ticket sales close tonight at 5 pm! […]
March 24, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 24, 2023
It’s Friday! Any hope of reforming the state’s regulatory system for approving new healthcare facilities in 2023 appears to be effectively dead with only two legislative days remaining in the […]
March 23, 2023 • Commentary
What happened to CON reform this year?
Three bills that would have reduced certificate of need regulations by varying degrees were introduced this year.
February 3, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 3, 2023
It’s Friday! There once was a time when comedy was something that could bring people together. It was the job of comedians and satirists to mock and ridicule our largest […]
February 1, 2023 • Commentary
Tax credit scholarship expansion introduced
School choice continues to grow across the country with Iowa and Utah adopting universal programs in the past week.
January 27, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of January 23
A recap of the third week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
January 26, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 27, 2023
It’s Friday! As Georgia celebrates National School Choice Week, the legislature is already looking to expand the tax credit scholarship program. And other proposals might move forward that give parents […]
January 20, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 20, 2023
It’s Friday! Georgia lawmakers brought a tax reform package across the finish line in 2022 that will change the state’s progressive income tax to a 5.49% flat tax beginning in […]
January 20, 2023 • Blog
At the Capitol: Week of January 16
A recap of the second week of the 2023 legislative session in Georgia.
September 29, 2022 • Blog
Atlanta, It’s Time For Renovations.
Few things in nature flourish with a rotten core.
April 20, 2021 • Blog
Education Information: Useful Data or Data Overload?
Mountains of education data can be useful, but it can also be used to obscure important facts.
March 15, 2021 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: March 15, 2020
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. One concern amid COVID-19 lockdowns, shutdowns, mandates, sheltering at home, isolation and telemedicine is the dangerous […]
July 2, 2020
Friday Facts: July 3, 2020
It’s Friday! Friday Facts is coming to you a day early to beat the holiday rush! Have you registered yet for the 2020 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum? The Forum, hosted […]
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