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: Sandy Springs
September 13, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 13, 2024
School choice opponents continue to mislead.
July 12, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 12, 2024
A new policy brief analyzes how Georgia’s health insurance landscape has improved since Gov. Kemp took office in 2019
May 10, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 10, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission recently voted to approve a new final rule banning non compete agreements across the entire economy.
March 1, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 1, 2024
When it comes to state income taxes, Georgia competes in a low-tax region.
August 24, 2023 • Blog
More Georgia’s cities and counties set property tax rates
The latest recap of millage rate discussions in Georgia.
February 6, 2023
Development Impact Fees: Trends and Impact on the Community
While impact fees are a tool to help defray the costs of infrastructure needed to support new development, they are also an additional housing cost.
November 30, 2022
The Impact of Fees on Georgia’s Housing Supply
Georgia needs to build hundreds of thousands of new homes to fill the housing shortfall, and impact fees are making them more expensive by thousands of dollars.
October 28, 2022 • Commentary
Foundation Study Examines Georgia’s Development Impact Fees
Our latest study is a comprehensive examination of development impact fees and revenues throughout the state.
March 18, 2022 • Foundation News
Friday Facts: March 18, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges or […]
March 4, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 04, 2022
This week, legislators introduced a bill to lower and flatten the state’s personal income tax rate.
December 17, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 17, 2021
Limited government and fiscal responsibility have been mainstays of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation since its founding in 1991.
November 4, 2021 • Blog
Short-Term Rental Regulation: Public Protection or Party Poopers?
Short-term rentals are exploding in popularity, and increasingly on the radar of regulators.
August 14, 2020
Friday Facts: August 14, 2020
It’s Friday! The 2020 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum has passed the halfway mark. Find information and registration for upcoming sessions: August 18: “Affordable Housing or Housing Affordability?” August 25: “Healthcare: […]
November 8, 2019
Friday Facts: November 8, 2019
It’s Friday! Events November 15: It’s just one week away! The 2019 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum comes to the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly on Friday, November 15. Five issues. Five think […]
July 26, 2019
Friday Facts: July 26, 2019
It’s Friday! Events August 27: “Election Integrity: Facts, Fraud and Fiction” is the Foundation’s August noon Policy Briefing Luncheon at the Georgian Club. The speaker is Hans von Spakovsky, Senior […]
June 14, 2019
Georgia Puts the ‘Commission’ in Tax Commissioners’ Pockets
Why do we allow county tax commissioners to line their pockets using county resources? And why does the Georgia General Assembly continue to allow individuals to profit at the expense […]
February 22, 2019 • Commentary
Architectural Ordinances: Government Overreach vs. Home Rule
Local governments are stifling innovation, mandating aesthetics and materials, and restricting designs and layouts.
July 20, 2018
Bus Rapid Transit: Fast, Flexible, Forward-thinking
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s Bus Rapid Transit plan for SR 400 is a breath of fresh air amid stale and misguided transit proposals for the metro Atlanta region. By Benita […]
February 16, 2018
Friday Facts: February 16, 2018
It’s Friday! Subscribe to the Friday Facts here. Support the Foundation and its mission here. Events February 20: The deadline is today to register for “Pension Solvency and Public Education: […]
May 26, 2017
Friday Facts: May 26, 2016
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Health-care reform is a test of whether Republicans, having been handed the gift of ObamaCare’s failure, can show voters that they can do better with […]
May 24, 2017
Eyes In the Sky Over Sandy Springs?
The use of drones has exploded over the last several years, with the (mostly) flying robots so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget that even as recently 10 years […]
October 28, 2016
Friday Facts: October 28, 2016
It’s Friday! Events November 11: In less than two weeks, John Stossel of “Stossel” on Fox Business Network keynotes the Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award! Have you […]
February 11, 2016
Senior Fellow Baruch Feigenbaum Testifies at Senate Committee Hearing on MARTA
For one MARTA heavy-rail expansion we could provide 20 high quality bus rapid transit expansions. The Georgia Senate State and Local Government Operations Committee, chaired by Sen. John Albers, held […]
February 4, 2016
Caution Recommended on Sales Tax Increase for Rail Transit
A new quarter-penny sales tax for transit could build one heavy-rail extension that would lock up transit funding and lock in an aging technology for the foreseeable future and take […]
October 23, 2015
Friday Facts: October 23, 2015
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Think tanks stand outside election cycles and alongside people who see politics as a means to ratify sound policy and don’t see policy rhetoric as […]
August 7, 2015
Friday Facts: August 7, 2015
It’s Friday! Events Today: GOP presidential candidates and the Foundation’s Benita Dodd are at Red State Gathering! Join Benita at, “Due Process Denied: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Undermines Freedom,” a […]
April 24, 2015
Friday Facts: April 24, 2015
It’s Friday! Social media: The Foundation’s Facebook page has 2,388 “likes.” Please share it to help us reach 2,400 “likes” in our 24th year in Georgia! Join us on twitter.com/gppf […]
April 22, 2015
Eva Galambos: Farewell to an Iron Lady of Georgia
The first mayor of Sandy Springs was a tenacious lady. Friends: The funeral for Eva Galambos, the first mayor of Sandy Springs, Ga., was Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Eva was […]
February 3, 2015
Who makes your charitable giving?
Government “charity.” Who chooses your charities? Is it appropriate that government increase its budget to increase giving YOUR tax dollars to charities and other nonprofit organizations? Is it appropriate that government […]
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