by Kyle Wingfield | Jan 28, 2020 | The Forum
Call it the Tale of the Uber Driver and the Farmer. No, they aren’t walking into a bar together or running an endurance race with a moral at the end. But they do offer a likely explanation for why Georgia’s tax revenues are lagging – and why legislators writing...
by Benita Dodd | Jan 24, 2020 | The Forum
National School Choice Week takes place the week of January 26 and, according to the National School Choice Alliance, a record-breaking 1,950 events and activities will mark the annual celebration in Georgia. It’s exciting that “school choice” has become a part...
by Marc Hyden | Jan 22, 2020 | The Forum
One of my colleagues enjoys pointing out that many red states, including my home state of Georgia, engage in nanny-state lawmaking and attempt to restrict largely innocuous behavior. While the truth is that Georgians enjoy many more liberties than most states,...
by Bill Black | Jan 21, 2020 | The Forum
As Georgia’s gang crisis deepens, an eerie parallel emerges with a previous blight in Southern history. Shamefully, Southern politicians advocated for Tenth Amendment protection of slave-property rights and to defend Jim Crow. In a recent InsiderAdvantage...
by Dave Williams | Jan 17, 2020 | The Forum
Gov. Brian Kemp unveiled a $28.1 billion budget proposal Thursday that would set a new record for state spending in fiscal 2021 despite the air of fiscal uncertainty surrounding this year’s General Assembly session. While the spending plan would surpass the...
by Dr. Jeffrey Kunkes | Jan 16, 2020 | The Forum
Your New Year’s lead article on U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., forces me to make at least one point. In fact, I was already working on bumper stickers reading “Send McBath Back to Tennessee, Send Handel to Congress.” The (House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi...
