July 27, 2007
By Benita M. Dodd Any elected official who proposes raising gas taxes or fees to fund transportation infrastructure needs in Georgia is probably not planning on re-election. Yet every policy-maker […]
July 20, 2007
By Leonard C. Gilroy Our culture makes the simplest problems complex and the simplest solutions expensive. None seem simpler than the cause of obesity and its cure, but nutritionists, psychologists, […]
July 6, 2007
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 […]
June 29, 2007
By Jason Pye This month marks the second anniversary of the infamous Kelo v. New London decision, a case where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the taking of private […]
June 15, 2007
By Dr. Holly Robinson In the same week recently, the city of Marietta’s Sawyer Road Elementary School had its charter approved to become an International Baccalaureate (IB) conversion charter school […]
May 25, 2007
Understandably, men who don’t benefit from their hard work tend not to work very hard. By David Boaz Four hundred years ago this month 105 men and boys disembarked from […]
May 4, 2007
By Senator Johnny Isakson When I was running for Senate in 2004, illegal immigration was second only to the war on terror on the list of issues folks asked me […]
March 9, 2007
By Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald Good medical coverage is affected by three components: cost, quality and availability. The true purpose of government in assuring that Georgians have good medical care is […]
March 8, 2007
Published Thursday, March 08, 2007 By Eric Wearne (CNN) — Have you ever used what you learned in high school to get a job? Ask the graduates of Central Educational […]
February 9, 2007
By Ronald E. Bachman Governor Perdue said at the opening of the 2007 session, “Keep the main thing the main thing.” The “main things” for 2007 were listed as jobs, […]
December 5, 2006
By Joel Schwartz Air pollution has been declining for decades across the United States, yet most Americans still believe air pollution is a growing problem and a serious threat to […]
November 10, 2006
By Benita M. Dodd Traffic congestion in metro Atlanta, where half the vehicle miles traveled in Georgia are concentrated, is frequently blamed on land use patterns in a region derided […]
October 27, 2006
By James Frogue Are Georgians getting measurably healthier? Is this progress being made in a manner that is fiscally sustainable? These are the first and second questions that we must […]
September 17, 2006
By Ronald E. Bachman Debate raged last year across the nation over the cost of the new Part D Medicare prescription drug benefit. Now that dueling economic models have been replaced […]
August 25, 2006
By Randal O’Toole and Kathleen Calongne A recent paper purporting to show that speed humps make residential streets safer for children actually shows nothing of the kind. In fact, the […]
June 23, 2006
By Tom Price America’s health care system, a world leader in medical care, is fundamentally flawed. The focus of the health care delivery system has moved away from patient […]
May 19, 2006
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 […]
April 28, 2006
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
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 7, 2006
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
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 29, 2006
Homeownership is the American dream and the aspiration of families all over the world. Yet so-called “smart-growth” plans and other restrictive land-use rules have made homeownership affordable only to the […]
March 24, 2006
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
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 […]
February 10, 2006
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 13, 2006
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
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
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
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 […]
October 21, 2005
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 […]
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