Topic: United States


August 19, 2014

Checking Up On Health: August 19, 2014

Three dumb things about Whole Foods, an at-home colon cancer test, the ALS ice bucket challenge and more. Health Policy News and Views Compiled By Benita M. Dodd Several friends have raved […]

August 15, 2014

Friday Facts: August 15, 2014

It’s Friday! An important reminder: We want you to continue to receive our updates! To ensure that you receive Foundation e-mails, please add us to your address book or safe […]

August 15, 2014

Getting with the Program on Georgia Transportation

To send a bigger pot to Washington is to squeeze blood out of a stone, thanks to increased fuel efficiency, alternate-fuel vehicles and federal interference eroding funds and hiking costs […]

August 8, 2014

Friday Facts: August 8, 2014

It’s Friday! Events August 28: Mark your calendar to hear former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission Paul S. Atkins and the American Enterprise Institute’s Peter Wallison discuss the dangerous regulatory expansion […]

August 7, 2014

Transportation Deja Vu All Over Again

“Getting our act together” the way the former Transportation Secretary wants us to is the wrong thing for Georgia to do. By Benita M. Dodd Former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood […]

August 5, 2014

Checking Up On Health: August 5, 2014

Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd The biggest health story in a while is happening right here in Georgia, as Ebola makes its first official appearance in […]

August 1, 2014

GPPF Friday Facts: August 1, 2014

It’s Friday!  Events September 19: Registration is open for the 2014 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum. The theme this year is, “Tearing Down Walls,” in recognition of this year’s 25th anniversary […]


July 29, 2014

EPA’s Power Grab Unscientific and Uncalled For

As for using this action to reduce asthma attacks and fatalities: The EPA has highlighted the dramatic improvements in air quality over the past 30 years, despite the increase in […]


July 22, 2014

Checking Up On Health: July 22, 2014

Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd In case you missed it: There were two rulings today regarding the Affordable Care Act. In the biggest ruling yet […]

July 18, 2014

Friday Facts: July 18, 2014

It’s Friday!  Quotes of Note “For nearly 40 years, it’s pretty much been all reform, all the time for the nation’s public school students, teachers, and parents. Many of the […]

July 18, 2014

School Choice, A Way to Fix Public Schools

What would public schools look like today if we had universal school choice? Very different, says Ben Scafidi, senior fellow for education at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. By Ben […]


July 15, 2014

Checking Up On Health: July 15, 2014

Why you’ll be learning a lot more about direct primary care, aka “concierge” care. Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Don’t believe the middleman makes a […]

July 11, 2014

Friday Facts: July 11, 2014

It’s Friday!  Quotes of Note  “The bottom line is that spending is not our basic problem. We’ve become an immoral people demanding that Congress forcibly use one American to serve […]

June 27, 2014

Friday Facts: June 27, 2014

It’s Friday!  Quotes of Note  “The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill.” – Calvin Coolidge “[T]hinking that more federal […]

June 24, 2014

Checking Up On Health: June 24, 2014

Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd My pet peeve when I visit the doctor’s office is waiting. I arrive on time. Then I wait. I don’t touch the […]

June 20, 2014

Friday Facts: June 20, 2014

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note  “[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the […]

June 20, 2014

Education Excellence Can’t Be Achieved From Above

As our education system becomes more decentralized and complex, the locus of accountability should shift from government to parents. By Jason Bedrick Education in America in the 21st century is […]


June 17, 2014

Checking Up On Health: June 17, 2014

Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd I’m lucky enough to have a window office in a business complex that includes a dialysis center, a Lasik surgery center […]


June 17, 2014

Studies: Cars, Not Transit, Will Help the Poor

New studies reinforce that improving access to cars may be the best way to help the poor. ‘Car ownership plants the seeds for upward mobility’ By Scott Beyer (The Daily […]


June 13, 2014

Friday Facts: June 13, 2014

It’s Friday!  Quotes of Note  “Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.” – Markus Zusak, “The […]

June 11, 2014

Checking Up On Health: June 10, 2014

Health Policy News and Views  Compiled by Benita M. Dodd It’s the summer, so I’m going to give you a break (as opposed to a fracture) and try to keep […]


June 6, 2014

Friday Facts: June 6, 2014

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note  “For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried […]
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