July 25, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 25, 2025
On July 17, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones announced the creation of the Georgia Senate Committee on Eliminating Georgia’s Income Tax
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July 18, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 18, 2025
In this year’s legislative session, Georgia had an opportunity to address its ever-growing regulatory code and reduce regulatory burdens placed on its citizens
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 27, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 27, 2025
Taken together, the six policies below provided meaningful financial breathing room.
June 20, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 20, 2025
The budget year that begins July 1 will be the third straight with no “bond package,” as that section is typically called.
June 13, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 13, 2025
How is the Department of Defense making it easier for military families to homeschool and what role will the Georgia Promise Scholarship play?
June 12, 2025 • Commentary
Homeschooling support for military families: A new opportunity for Georgia
The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced a formal review of how it supports military families who choose to homeschool their children.
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.
June 15, 2023 • Blog
Georgia officials get more daring with waste, fraud and abuse
The latest stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.
July 2, 2021 • Commentary
Our 50 State Flag: How One Ohio Teen’s Quest to Change His Grade Became Our National Symbol
On July 4, 1960, teenager Robert (Bob) G. Heft sat in a swivel chair next to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and asked, “How do you like your job?” as they […]
May 28, 2021 • Commentary
A Day of Honor, a Sacrifice of a Lifetime
Nearly 5 million people died in the Korean War, a conflict that began in June 1950 and ended in July 1953. More than half of those killed were civilians – a civ
May 21, 2021
Friday Facts: May 21, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane Civil Discourse: For years, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation sponsored debates among Georgia’s political candidates, and – as this 1994 article on tax reform demonstrates – […]
June 12, 2020 • Commentary
Reforming Policing While Preserving Law Enforcement
Systematic reform within the criminal justice system has become prevalent in the public discourse in the wake of recent events, including the tragic deaths of t
August 31, 2018
Friday Facts: August 31, 2018
It’s Friday! REGISTER NOW! One Day. Four issues. Sixteen Experts. And just one week to the 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum! The daylong conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel […]
June 22, 2018
Growing Green Energy Puts Coal and Nuclear Plants in the Red
National energy policymaking doesn’t happen in a vacuum, so it’s important to examine the root causes of problems confronting this administration on the energy front. By Paul Blair Over the […]
June 23, 2017
Friday Facts: June 23, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Federal laws and regulations raise the costs and slow the construction of infrastructure such as highways and pipelines. Federal subsidies for infrastructure distort the capital […]
August 21, 2015
What Happened to The ‘Public’ in Public Schools?
A Georgia charter school student can’t join the AFJROTC. By Benita M. Dodd Ashley-Kay Wyatt was a freshman at Brantley County High School in southeastern Georgia when boys happened. Unimpressed […]
July 12, 2013
What if the Exchanges Are Not Ready on Time?
One of the worst mistakes the federal government makes is the tendency to try to reinvent systems the private sector has already invented. By John Goodman On October 1, millions […]
May 27, 2011
USDA’s Feeding Frenzy
By Harold Brown How does the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) budget grow in proportion to the shrinkage of its mission? Perhaps it is a reward for agriculture’s phenomenal success. […]
December 10, 2010
Friday Facts: December 10th, 2010
It’s Friday! Quotable – “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good […]
April 2, 2003
Georgia Should Lift Ban on Mail-Order Prescriptions
By Kelly McCutchen It seems that just about everyone has caught on that ordering prescriptions by mail can help health-care consumers save hundreds and even thousands of dollars. But Georgians […]