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Today, Lake Lanier is more than 13 feet below its full pool and nearly 10 feet lower than it was this time last year. The state climatologist sees the next few weeks as critical in determining the extent and severity of the 2008 drought. By contrast, the reservoirs downstream from metro Atlanta are virtually full...
Prepare Students for the World, Not Just the Test
While the debate continues over who's to blame and policy-makers pay lip service to preparing students for the 21st century - here for almost a decade already - the U.S. education system muddles on as a 19th-century model ...
Jun 14, 2008
Global Warming Comes to Georgia
In these hazy, 90-degree Georgia days, with gas prices soaring and smog hovering, the guilt trip that global warming proponents are selling is easy to buy. And with industry and academia seeing the green in being "green," it's even to tougher for ordinary Georgians to resist ...
Jun 7, 2008
Transparency Can Bring Clarity to Georgia Taxpayers
Internet-savvy bank customers in Georgia can go online and check and balance their accounts from the comfort of their home, even at 2 in the morning. But let that same taxpayer be curious at 10 a.m. about how his taxes are being spent in Georgia, and he'd have a tough time finding out...
Apr 21, 2008
Positive Outcomes of the '08 Legislative Session
Those who watched this year's legislative session as they would a hockey game - waiting for the fight - were not disappointed. Going in, the focus was a "WETT" session: water, education, taxes and transportation. But beneath the political theatre, the final score indicates a victory for good public policy ...
Apr 17, 2008
Competition Can Solve Atlanta's Budget Woes
The chickens have finally come home to roost in Atlanta. The city's recently announced $70 million budget deficit - one of the largest among U.S. cities, representing a staggering 11 percent of the general fund - is the most recent symptom of unchecked growth in city government ...
Apr 7, 2008
