July 27, 2012
Friday Facts: July 27, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “All of the progress that the U.S. has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from […]
Topic: The New York Times
July 19, 2012
Poll: ObamaCare Still a Huge Issue for Voters this Fall
By Grace Marie-Turner The latest New York Times / CBS News poll dives into public opinion on ObamaCare following the Supreme Court decision and finds opposition to the law virtually […]
June 4, 2012
Scholarship Groups Need Oversight, not Overregulation
By Eric Wearne A recent New York Times article called into question practices resulting from tuition tax credit programs around the country, including in Georgia. That article spends a lot […]
March 27, 2012
Checking up on Health Care
Health Policy Briefs July 31, 2012 Compiled by Benita M. Dodd – Where have all the doctors gone? What if you added to the ranks of insured individuals but didn’t […]
March 9, 2012
Taking the Red Pill Takes You to Wonderland
By Eric Wearne In 2011, Sebastian Thrun left his position as a computer science professor at Stanford University. He had offered a course on artificial intelligence, and enrolled 200 Stanford […]
February 28, 2012
Checking Up on Health
Health Policy Briefs: February 28, 2012 Compiled by Benita Dodd Registration is open and seats are filling quickly for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s next Leadership Breakfast, 8 a.m. Thursday, […]
February 20, 2012
Register by Today for Wednesday Event With PayPal Co-founder Rod Martin
Atlanta – The deadline is today to register to attend “Education, Entrepreneurship, and How Technology is Transforming the World by Transforming Both,” the Foundation’s Leadership Breakfast keynoted by PayPal co-founder […]
February 14, 2012
Register Now for Feb. 22 Leadership Breakfast with PayPal Co-founder Rod Martin
Atlanta – If you haven’t yet registered, time is running out to sign up to attend ” Education, Entrepreneurship, and How Technology is Transforming the World by Transforming Both,” the […]
January 30, 2012
PayPal Co-founder Rod Martin Keynotes Feb. 22 Leadership Breakfast
Atlanta – The topic is “Education, Entrepreneurship, and How Technology is Transforming the World by Transforming Both,” as PayPal founder Dr. Rod D. Martin, an education philanthropist, keynotes a Georgia […]
January 17, 2012
Transportation Roundup
TRANSPORTATION ROUNDUP Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Logistics and innovation: More than 1,100 people have registered already for the fourth annual Georgia Logistics Summit on February 8th, 2012, in Atlanta. […]
December 19, 2011
Improving Visibility Increasingly Clouded in Hyperbole
That the progress in improving this nation’s air quality is hidden in hazy environmental reporting is no surprise: How would one notice improvements when only “problems” are emphasized? Unfortunately, headlines […]
October 28, 2011
Friday Facts: October 28th, 2011
It’s Friday! – Thank you for your support! About 400 friends and supporters celebrated the Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and Freedom Award dinner on Monday evening at the Renaissance Waverly Atlanta. At the event […]
August 5, 2011
Friday Facts: August 5th, 2011
It’s Friday! Quotations – “To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to […]
June 21, 2011
After Supreme Court Ruling: “How We Answer Will Define Us For Generations”
Georgia became the national battleground over charter public schools alternative authorization last month when the state Supreme Court ruled the three-year-old charter schools commission is unconstitutional. So it was not […]
June 5, 2011
One Step Forward and A Long Road Ahead for Commission Schools
Get ready. Get set. Go back to (your favorite charter) school. Now that they’ve been thrown a parachute, what’s next for a handful of former state commission charter schools and […]
April 27, 2011
Friday Facts: April 27th, 2011
It’s Friday! Quotations – “[President] Obama will participate in a town hall meeting hosted on Facebook. So just like everyone else in America, Obama will be on Facebook when he should […]
April 8, 2011
Friday Facts: April 8th, 2011
It’s Friday! Events – As the first half of Georgia’s two-year legislative session reaches its climax with tax reform hanging in the balance, you are invited to attend “Grading Georgia’s Tax […]
February 18, 2011
Friday Facts: February 18th, 2011
It’s Friday! Events – March 1: Join the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and the Concord Coalition for the Fiscal Solutions Tour at 5 p.m. on March 1 at Kennesaw State University. The […]
February 4, 2011
Friday Facts: February 4th, 2011
It’s Friday! Join our Forum! – If you like the Friday Facts, you’ll love The Forum. This interactive community is a series of issue-oriented blogs where you can find breaking stories and […]
November 19, 2010
Friday Facts: November 19th, 2010
It’s Friday! Quotable – “[Legislators] like to control money and we like to control where children go [to school]. I think we need to break that mold. Whether it’s […]
November 10, 2010
NYC Mayor Bloomberg Sticks With Business Leader To Run Nation’s Largest Public School System
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made billions in business, is absolutely consistent about whom he thinks should run the city’s public school system: Business people. Bloomberg proved […]
August 6, 2010
Friday Facts: August 6th, 2010
It’s Friday! Quotable – “The great variable in the federal balance sheet has been spending, not revenue. Debt comes from spending more than you have, not from having too little. Does anyone […]
November 6, 2009
Short-Term Uninsurance: the Problem No One Is Trying to Solve
By John C. Goodman According to Politico, the White House is trotting out some new arguments lately, including pushing a report from the Treasury Department that tries to make clear that […]
June 18, 2009
How Communications Technology Can Build a Grand Conversation for Georgia
James K. Glassman This talk today is timely. In Iran, as I speak, we are seeing hundreds of thousands of citizens protesting what is almost certainly a stolen election. […]
July 6, 2007
Good Intentions on Road to Energy Hell
By Kenneth P. Green It is rare that one finds a policy concept that unites policy-makers not only of the left and right, but between countries, particularly, these days, in […]
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