October 16, 2026 • Blog
Georgia Amendment 1: Raising the Conservation Use Acreage Cap
Amendment 1 raises the limit on how much land a single owner can qualify as "bona fide conservation use property" from 2,000 acres to 4,000 acres.
Topic: Supreme Court of Georgia
October 16, 2026 • Blog
How Do Georgia Constitutional Amendments Work?
Most voters know what a law is. Fewer know how the constitution gets changed, or why the final decision lies with voters. Here's a quick guide.
June 26, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 26, 2026
In the ongoing debate over why homeownership remains out of reach for so many Georgia families, we have the usual explanations: higher interest rates, institutional investors buying up homes, global […]
June 19, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 19, 2026
It’s just good manners to clean up when company’s coming. The 23rd FIFA World Cup is an interesting backdrop for the United States’ 250th birthday. Soccer fans from around the […]
June 14, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 12, 2026
Imagine handing your landlord $300,000, living in his house for two years without ever making a rent payment, and then getting the full $300,000 back when you move out. Did […]
June 5, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 5, 2026
School choice is one of the great policy success stories of the past decade. Across the country, lawmakers are launching new programs, states are lifting enrollment caps, and families are […]
May 29, 2026 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 29, 2026
For more than a century, races for the Supreme Court of Georgia barely registered with voters. Incumbents rarely faced challengers, and they almost never lost—you have to go back to […]
May 28, 2026 • Commentary
The Dangerous Politicization of Georgia’s Supreme Court
When judges begin to view themselves as lawmakers, they compromise the unique role they are meant to play.
August 14, 2025
Four Decades of QBE: Georgia’s Education Funding Formula and Its Challenges
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
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
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
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?
A joint committee will review reported issues with the Secretary of State's Professional Licensing Boards Division.
May 29, 2024 • Commentary
All eyes will be on Georgia this fall
Humility and sanity may be gone from Washington but still mostly prevails in Georgia. For now.
April 4, 2024 • Blog
Georgia landowner’s eminent domain case could force judges to resolve long-lingering questions
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.
March 20, 2023
Economic Report on Georgia’s Certificate of Need Program
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?
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?
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