January 11, 2008
Rail’s No Way In or To San Jose
San Jose’s Valley Transit Authority couldn’t have shown the downside of light rail at a more inopportune moment. By Benita M. Dodd For those who love to watch the passing […]
Topic: United States
December 14, 2007
Does Socialism Work? Debunking the Myth
By John C. Goodman David Himmelstein and his wife Steffie Woolhandler are associate professors at Harvard Medical School. Together they are a one-couple team, promoting Canadian national health insurance in […]
November 27, 2007
Missing From the Tax Debate: Spending
By Kelly McCutchen Like love and marriage, tax and spending go together like the proverbial horse and carriage. Absent spending controls, any major “reform” proposal in Georgia’s tax code – […]
November 4, 2007
Land Use Principles for Georgia
The Lone Mountain Compact’s “Principles for Livable Cities,” to which the Georgia Public Policy Foundation is a signatory, form the basis of land use principles: Absent a material threat to […]
November 2, 2007
Wising Up to Georgia’s Water Woes
By Benita M. Dodd and Harold Brown “It is remarkable how many political ‘solutions’ today are dealing with problems created by previous political ‘solutions’,” conservative commentator Thomas Sowell wrote recently […]
October 25, 2007
New Approach Needed to Help the “Uninsurable”
By Ronald E. Bachman There is much talk about the number of Georgians who would like to purchase health insurance but cannot afford it. There is less talk about Georgians […]
October 19, 2007
Commentary: Slow-Growth Plans and Regulations Lose the Way for San Jose
By Randal O’Toole California is a garden of Eden, A paradise to live in or see; But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot If you ain’t […]
September 7, 2007
Tear Down This Wall
By Ronald E. Bachman Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has announced a noble plan to reach 30,000 of the state’s uninsured; Lieutenant Governor Casey has a good plan to reach others. […]
August 10, 2007
Transportation Solutions For a Transit-Challenged Region
Atlanta grew up around cars. It’s fundamentally a packet-switched infrastructure. Ask any telecom engineer. You cannot replace a packet-switched infrastructure with circuit switching for any reasonable amount of money. Can’t […]
August 3, 2007
In Transportation and in Technology, Packets Beat Circuits
Why are so many mass transit policies doomed to failure? Because packets beat circuits. By Stephen Fleming (Part 1 of a two-part commentary) Why are so many mass transit policies […]
July 27, 2007
Perspective on Transportation Innovations: Concessions, and Then Some
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
Commentary: Competition Can Solve Atlanta’s Budget Crunch
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
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 […]
June 29, 2007
Eminent Domain Protection’s No Done Deal
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
State’s Teacher of the Year Gets ‘Brain Juice’ Flowing at Marietta School
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
Private Property Saved Jamestown and, with it, America
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
Border Security is First Step in Halting Illegal Immigration
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
What Georgia Should Do About Certificate of Need
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
‘Hire’ education: A vocational model succeeds
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
How Georgia Can Lower the State’s Uninsured by 500,000
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
Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution
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
No Time to Detour from Viable Transportation Solutions
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
How to Improve Health and Lower Health Care Costs in Georgia
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
Competition Cuts Costs for Medicare Rx
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
Bumps in Study on Speed Humps
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
Healing America’s Health Care Woes
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
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 […]
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 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 […]
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