May 19, 2006
Congress Overdue for a Fiscal Spring-cleaning
By Lynn Westmoreland You can’t go outside to play until you’ve cleaned your room, Mom used to say. We could use Mom’s wisdom in Washington: Our fiscal house has escaped […]
Topic: United States Congress
May 5, 2006
Health Care: Why Incentives Matter
By Kelly McCutchen As growing numbers of small businesses drop insurance plans amid rising costs, many individuals are opting to go uninsured rather than buy individual insurance. Their decision is […]
April 28, 2006
No Way to Handle a Fuel Crisis
By Benita M. Dodd You don’t have to have your ear to the tracks to hear the hullabaloo blaming “big oil” and Americans’ “addiction” to foreign oil for alarmingly high […]
April 21, 2006
Securing U.S. Borders Must Come First
By Senator Johnny Isakson When I was running for Senate in 2004, illegal immigration ranked second only to the war on terror among the issues people asked me about on […]
April 20, 2006
Private Sector Role doesn’t mean Streets Paved with ‘Sold’
Benita M. Dodd Georgia faces a $7.7 billion transportation funding shortfall over the next six years, the state Department of Transportation reminds us on its new Web site, www.whatsthebigidea.us. Bridging that […]
April 7, 2006
Legislative Session Good for Business
By Kelly McCutchen Georgians won’t know who this year’s political winners will be until November, but the state’s small businesses were the clear winners in the legislative session. And that’s […]
March 31, 2006
Commentary: The Hidden Cost of “Planning”
By Randal O’Toole Planners rarely say, even among themselves, that one goal of growth-management planning is to drive up housing prices in order to discourage people from living on large […]
March 30, 2006
Solving the Woes of Water Infrastructure
By Benita M. Dodd One week after more than 600 people from around the nation participated in an Atlanta conference on how to fund sustainable water infrastructure, the federal Environmental […]
March 24, 2006
Bunker Mentality Won’t Cut Energy Bills
By Benita M. Dodd Hindsight being 20-20, traffic jams became the impetus for transportation solutions as Georgia’s population grew. Fortunately, the state can still pre-empt an energy jam fueled by Georgia’s growing population […]
March 3, 2006
Hot Air Rises with Natural Gas Prices
By Benita M. Dodd Hindsight being 20/20, the critics who back in 1997 were doomsaying the deregulation of Georgia’s natural gas market are back again, gleefully pointing to high energy […]
March 2, 2006
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Georgia Moves on Transportation
By Benita M. Dodd Transportation proposals are chasing lawmakers at such an exciting and breathtaking pace this year that the convergence of plans under the Gold Dome seems destined to […]
February 17, 2006
Telework: Transporting Workers into a Global Economy
Just a dozen years ago it was considered avant garde for an organization to allow employees to work from home. Today, increasing numbers of employees are quietly migrating away from […]
February 10, 2006
Commentary: Georgia Hairbraiders Entangled in Regulatory Excess
By Valerie Bayham It takes a minimum of 12 hours of training to carry a firearm as a private security guard in Georgia. Basic training is only 120 hours for […]
January 27, 2006
Commentary: Property Rights, Politics and Policy
By Benita M. Dodd The 2005-2006 legislative term has already seen at least three dozen pieces of legislation that reference eminent domain, the authority of government to take land from […]
January 13, 2006
Insure All Georgians
By Ronald E. Bachman and Nancy Desmond If one of the major goals for Georgia is affordable health care coverage for all citizens, it is critical to achieve that goal […]
December 30, 2005
The Sandy Springs Effect: a Model of Government Based on Results and Accountability
By Geoffrey F. Segal At 12:01 am on Dec. 1, a vision took reality for a large group of citizens in Sandy Springs, Georgia. After fighting Fulton County for over […]
December 23, 2005
Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights Needs Teeth to be Effective
By James Garland and John Marsh Many states have implemented tax and expenditure limitations as a means to staunch the runaway growth of government spending. Along those lines, the state […]
December 9, 2005
Road to Congestion Relief Paved with Common Sense
By Benita M. Dodd When the Georgia Public Policy Foundation presented testimony to the State Board of Transportation’s Intermodal Committee in September opposing the proposed Atlanta-Lovejoy commuter rail line, the […]
November 18, 2005
Progress of Stormwater Utilities a Watershed Event
By Brant D. Keller, Ph. D. Across the nation and in Georgia, progress in the creation of stormwater utilities has been remarkable and encouraging. It was as recent as 1998 […]
November 4, 2005
Battle’s Not Over for Taxpayer Bill of Rights
By Jon Caldara Why? Because principles matter. That’s why. That’s why the Independence Institute took a stand. While the whole of Colorado’s political machinery worked overtime to pass Referenda C […]
October 21, 2005
A Fine Week for Freedom
By Kelly McCutchen Limited government, free markets and private property are the cornerstones of the American success story, but these freedoms can slowly erode over time: Government involves itself in […]
September 9, 2005
Buffer Taxpayers From Government Spendthrifts
By E. Frank Stephenson One of the most important factors in determining a state’s quality of life and economic environment is the size of its government and the ability to […]
September 2, 2005
Taxpayers Have Rights, Too
Georgians can protect themselves with a tax and expenditure limit on government.” By Jesse J. Weathington “Once a camel has gotten its nose into your tent, the rest will soon […]
August 26, 2005
New City Promises New Hope for Limiting Government
By Geoffrey F. Segal Watch closely as Georgia plays host to a fascinating experiment in public administration. Sandy Springs, an unincorporated suburb of Atlanta in northeast Fulton County, holds enormous […]
July 22, 2005
Commentary: Taxpayers’ New Worry: Your Money or Your Land
By Geoffrey F. Segal and Benita M. Dodd Long ago, Thomas Jefferson warned that “government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have […]
July 1, 2005
Without Local Curbs, Eminent Domain Abuse Is Imminent
By Benita M. Dodd There was a time the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government could take private property when it was “important to appropriate lands or other property for […]
June 24, 2005
Georgia Tackles the Toll of Truck Traffic
By Benita M. Dodd Georgians, particularly those in and around transportation corridors of metro areas, deal on an almost-daily basis with congestion stemming from truck-related traffic incidents. The bigger the […]
June 17, 2005
Charter School Expands Success Beyond College Prep
By Russ Moore When Newsweek trumpeted “America’s Best High Schools” in May, it was disappointing to learn the magazine’s best of the best were selected based on a formula that […]
June 10, 2005
TMDLs: Tall Tale of Fishes and Silt
By Harold Brown The king of Clearwater liked to fish, but he was distraught that he could catch only a few, or none, in the streams near the castle and […]
May 13, 2005
Governing By Network Has Challenges, Rewards
By Benita M. Dodd For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost, goes the rhyme. To Stephen Goldsmith, Harvard professor and former two-term mayor of Indianapolis, sometimes it’s for […]
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