Policy
Frist and the marriage amendment
By Jeff Emanuel
Jun 8, 2006
The timing of the Marriage Amendment’s introduction to the nation by President Bush, and in the Senate by Majority Leader Frist, was vigorously attacked from several sides. Some said it was being used to take the public’s eyes off of Iraq, gas prices, global warming, the 6/6/06 [...]
Georgia’s HOPE chest
By Jeff Emanuel
Mar 14, 2006
With just two weeks left in the Spring 2006 legislative session, time is running out on a proposed constitutional amendment which would ensure that Georgia’s unique merit-based college scholarship program will remain funded beyond the foreseeable future.
The brainchild of then-Governor Zell Miller, Georgia’s “Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally,” or HOPE, scholarship program [...]
