May 30, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 30, 2025
This week, we look at the underlying issues and true causes of rising home prices in metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia
Topic: Public–private partnership
July 9, 2021 • Commentary
New Express Lanes to Ease Taxpayer Toll
Atlanta Braves’ fans still chuckle about Pascual Perez, who missed his start for the Braves after getting lost on Interstate 285. It was August 1982, and the 25-year-old drove around the 64-mile beltway […]
December 8, 2020 • Blog
Transportation Tuesday: December 8, 2020
Transportation Tuesday is the newest in a series of Georgia Public Policy Foundation policy briefs. Others are Medical Monday’s Checking Up On Health and Tax and Spend Tuesday. The Transportation Tuesday post of […]
October 27, 2020 • Blog
Transportation Tuesday: October 27, 2020
Transportation Tuesday is the newest in a series of Georgia Public Policy Foundation policy briefs. Others are Medical Monday’s Checking Up On Health and Tax and Spend Tuesday. PPPs: An […]
April 3, 2015
What Happened Under the Gold Dome 2015
A post-Sine Die update on legislation related to Foundation proposals. A quick summary of key economic issues: Education: Increase in the cap on the tuition tax credit scholarship that was […]
April 2, 2015
Where are we as of Day 40?
Status of key economic issues (updated at 10 pm): Education: Increase in the cap on the tuition tax credit scholarship that was hit in a matter of hours on January […]
November 22, 2013
Making a Brave Move on the Transportation Front
How do policy-makers prevent the area around I-75 and I-285 from becoming completely gridlocked when the Braves play? By Baruch Feigenbaum The announcement that the Atlanta Braves are abandoning Turner […]
October 11, 2013
Move Transportation Policy with PR, PPPs, the Penny and Prioritization
The bottlenecks in transportation policy are not just in roads, transit or funding. By Benita Dodd That congestion and transportation challenges in Georgia have taken a back seat for a […]
September 6, 2013
Practical Strategies Can Increase Mobility in Georgia
There is an opportunity for Georgia to develop a quality transportation network without raising taxes. By Baruch Feigenbaum Even the through travelers know it: Georgia’s transportation system is inadequate. Metro […]
August 23, 2013
Transportation Needs Innovation, Especially in Funding
Three approaches will leverage funding to improve mobility and reduce congestion in metro Atlanta and Georgia. By Benita M. Dodd Money talks, especially at the Georgia General Assembly, where the […]
July 30, 2013
Alternative Transit Project Delivery Offers Attractive Options
Public-private partnerships have been slow to take off in the United States, but they hold many benefits. By Alex Roman Alternative project delivery, including public-private partnerships (PPPs); design-build; and design-build-operate-maintain, […]
June 17, 2013
A New Model for Local Governance
By Benita M. Dodd What if you created a city that improved services for residents yet avoided the bloat of government bureaucracy and the long-term liability of government pensions? That’s just […]
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 […]
April 20, 2012
Friday Facts: April 20th, 2012
It’s Friday! Events – Tuesday is the deadline to register for ”Choice Matters: Expanding Educational Opportunity,” a Foundation Leadership Breakfast at Cobb County’s Georgian Club featuring two legislators at the forefront of Georgia […]
December 28, 2011
Georgia Missed a Huge Opportunity to Leverage Private Funds
Georgia’s eleventh-hour cancellation of a toll concession project on managed lanes along I-75 and I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties is a decision with enormous ramifications. It impacts mobility for […]
January 14, 2011
Friday Facts: January 14th, 2011
It’s Friday! Quotations – “You could take a poll and see what the public says it wants, but what the public says it wants at any particular moment is not identical with the public interest. The public […]
April 24, 2009
Policy-makers Can Still Move on Transportation in Georgia
By Benita M. Dodd They weren’t playing nice at the Capitol this year, and when legislators grabbed their toys and went home, neither chamber had won the transportation legislation tug-of […]
March 27, 2009
Georgia ‘HOT’ on the Trail of Congestion Relief
By Benita M. Dodd The standoff among the House, the Senate and the Governor’s office over competing transportation proposals continues under Georgia’s Gold Dome, but the Department of Transportation isn’t […]
October 24, 2008
Texas Experience Provides Road Map to Congestion Relief
By Chick Krautler A recent fact-finding mission to Texas, led by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, was an excellent opportunity for Georgia’s state and regional transportation policy-makers to learn from folks […]
January 24, 2003
The Atlanta Water Privatization: What Can We Learn?
Your contract is only as strong as the monitoring, reporting, and direct oversight that is built into it. By Geoffrey F. Segal I. Context In 1997, the City of Atlanta privatized […]