February 14, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 14, 2025
We can improve education outcomes. Florida and Mississippi have proven that.
Topic: State Transportation Board
August 28, 2024 • Commentary
How is road building evolving in Georgia?
The Ga. 400 express lanes will utilize a public-private partnership that minimizes taxpayer investments.
August 16, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 16, 2024
If the individual provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire at the end of next year, tax filing will get more complicated for millions of Americans.
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.
January 28, 2016
Atlanta Business Chronicle Quotes Foundation on Ga. Transportation
” … putting more buses in managed lanes would be far more cost-effective.” A January 22, 2016 article by Dave Williams in The Atlanta Business Chronicle quotes Foundation Vice President […]
May 8, 2015
Friday Facts: May 8, 2015
It’s Friday! Events Tuesday is the deadline to register for, “License to Work,” the Foundation’s 8 a.m. Leadership Breakfast on Thursday, May 14, at Cobb County’s Georgian Club. Georgia Secretary […]
May 1, 2015
The Concrete Road Less Traveled
Consider concrete solutions to road-building competition. By Benita M. Dodd What if you were told that 95 percent of Georgians are using a product that may not always be the […]
August 7, 2014
Transportation Deja Vu All Over Again
“Getting our act together” the way the former Transportation Secretary wants us to is the wrong thing for Georgia to do. By Benita M. Dodd Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood […]
January 25, 2012
Transportation Briefs
Transportation Round-Up Compiled by GPPF Vice President Benita Dodd Misguided, misinformed and missing: Committee meetings are almost ways more interesting than full board meetings, if you’re willing to sit and […]
April 18, 2008
Positive Outcomes of the ’08 Legislative Session
By Kelly McCutchen Those who watched this year’s legislative session as they would a hockey game – waiting for the fight – were not disappointed. Going in, the focus was […]
September 14, 2007
The Monkey Trap in Transportation Policy
By Benita M. Dodd A once-in-a-blue-moon event occurred recently at a committee meeting of Georgia’s State Transportation Board. During an update on projects in the state’s various congressional districts, the […]
July 27, 2007
Perspective on Transportation Innovations: Concessions, and Then Some
By Benita M. Dodd Any elected official who proposes raising gas taxes or fees to fund transportation infrastructure needs in Georgia is probably not planning on re-election. Yet every policy-maker […]