by D.A. King | Jan 30, 2019 | The Forum
In last year’s legislative session Republican state Senator Steve Gooch (R-Dahlonega) introduced legislation that gutted the process intended to ensure that the Georgia Department of Transportation hires contractors that are using a legal workforce. In the haste and...
by Phil Kent | Jan 21, 2019 | The Forum
After a University of Georgia teaching assistant wrote on Facebook last week that “some white people may have to die for black communities to be made whole in this struggle to advance to freedom,” the University System chancellor and Board Regents have been...
by Marc Hyden | Jan 17, 2019 | The Forum
Anything worth doing is worth taking your time to do, according to an old proverb. While there’s a kernel of truth to this platitude, the state of Georgia apparently took this advice to the extreme. Consider this: The United States ratified the 21st Amendment...
by State Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick | Jan 14, 2019 | The Forum
As a somewhat new Georgia senator, I am still learning about how our political system works, and I have some thoughts about the general climate in the Legislature that opens today. I also have a somewhat unique perspective on healthcare issues filtered by my...
by Marc Hyden & R.J. Lehmann | Jan 10, 2019 | The Forum
Like the underachieving student in the back of the class, Georgia recently earned a C grade for its regulation of the insurance market, as laid out in the annual Insurance Regulation Report Card issued by the R Street Institute. While that represented a slight...
by U.S. Senator David Perdue | Jan 7, 2019 | The Forum
In a recent op-ed for The Washington Post, Mitt Romney made the same mistake that many Republicans did in 2012 — a mistake that cost him the White House. With his attempted character assassination of the president, a fellow Republican, Romney put self-interest...
