Topic: Supreme Court of Georgia

August 14, 2025

Four Decades of QBE: Georgia’s Education Funding Formula and Its Challenges

By J. Thomas Perdue

For nearly four decades, funding for Georgia public education has been provided by a program known as Quality Basic Education, and commonly referred to as QBE.

July 11, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 11, 2025

Much has been written about America’s largest city edging closer to electing a socialist mayor. And the effects are likely to make their way down to Georgia.

June 6, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: June 6, 2025

Despite the growing necessity of data centers as the demand for their services increases, there is debate over their associated costs and benefits.

March 14, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 14, 2025

Crossover Day marked the beginning of the end of this year’s legislative session.

March 13, 2025 • Blog

Georgia’s ‘Jackpot Justice Juries’ prompt calls for tort reform

By Chris Butler

When criminals commit violent acts on the private properties of business owners, Georgia’s premises liability laws make those property owners civilly liable.

March 7, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 7, 2025

The Peach State made history this week by opening applications for the new Georgia Promise Scholarship.

March 6, 2025 • Blog

Georgia landlords say they provide security, but still face legal peril

By Chris Butler

Landlords in Georgia can be held liable if someone commits a crime on their property, even if they provide adequate security.

February 18, 2025 • Blog

TORT REFORM: The Georgia law that business owners hate the most

By Chris Butler

Georgia law can hold a business owner civilly liable for a criminal act that happens on his property, one that the business owner had nothing to do with.

February 14, 2025 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: February 14, 2025

We can improve education outcomes. Florida and Mississippi have proven that.

October 4, 2024 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 4, 2024

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has released our 2024 Guide to the Issues.

May 30, 2024 • Commentary

Another crack at reforming occupational licensing?

By Brett Kittredge

A joint committee will review reported issues with the Secretary of State's Professional Licensing Boards Division.

April 4, 2024 • Blog

Georgia landowner’s eminent domain case could force judges to resolve long-lingering questions

By Chris Butler

The Georgia Public Service Commission ruled in favor of the railroad in an eminent domain case in Hancock County.

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

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.

July 21, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 21, 2023

Short-term plan, are not subject to Obamacare rules and are thus much more affordable and flexible for families.

June 2, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: June 2, 2023

Gov. Brian Kemp recently vetoed legislation would have provided nearly 500,000 state employees with the opportunity to utilize health savings accounts.

March 20, 2023

Economic Report on Georgia’s Certificate of Need Program

By Chris Denson Matt Mitchell

Despite their inception nearly fifty years ago, ongoing questions about cost, access and the role of community healthcare remain.

March 10, 2023 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 10, 2023

It’s Friday! The Georgia legislature has advanced two issues that lawmakers have been debating under the Gold Dome for years. In some cases, decades. Senate Bill 99, sponsored by Sen. […]

May 20, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: May 20, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?… Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. […]

February 18, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: February 18, 2022

In this week's commentary, Kyle Wingfield explores the data of a 40-year-old GBI study, and what it might mean for today's conversation on the topic.

October 21, 2020 • Blog

Do You Know What’s on Your Georgia Ballot?

By Do You Know What’s on Your Georgia Ballot?

Don’t you hate it when you get to the end of your ballot, and suddenly you’re faced with an unfamiliar constitutional amendment or referendum?

September 11, 2020

Friday Facts: September 11, 2020

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “I called President Bush and I said, ‘You can’t come back here; the United States is under attack.’ And the rest of the day was […]

September 4, 2020

Friday Facts: September 4, 2020

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “U.S. debt has reached its highest level compared to the size of the economy since World War II and is projected to exceed it next […]

August 28, 2020

Friday Facts: August 28, 2020

It’s Friday! The 2020 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum ended this week after eight sessions that began July 15. Click on the links to view each session – Zoom webinars – […]

August 21, 2020

It’s Friday! The 2020 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum enters its final week! Click on the links for information and registration for next week’s Zoom sessions: August 25 panel discussion: “Healthcare: […]

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: […]

July 31, 2020 • Commentary

Landmark Montana Case Advances Education Options

By Jack Park

Featuring Dr. Jeffrey Dorfman Dr. Benjamin Scafidi

On June 30, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional for a state to prohibit the use of tax credit scholarships at religious schools while perm

May 22, 2020

Friday Facts: May 22, 2020

It’s Friday! This is Week 10 of the Friday Facts’ focus on the coronavirus pandemic across the nation and in Georgia. View previous editions here. View the Foundation’s near-term proposals […]

June 21, 2019

Friday Facts: June 21, 2019

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Men between the ages of 25 and 54 make up over 70 percent of the federal prison population, meaning those people are taken out of […]

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