The New Deal’s public works were crucial in a nation emerging from the agrarian into the industrial age. Millions of jobs were created for those who previously worked on farms.

The U.S. government could impose the minimum wage on all of a company’s employees whether they work in the continental United States or in other countries.

We must provide transportation choices for our citizens. This cannot be accomplished without fixing the gigantic funding shortfall for basic infrastructure.

The only sure way to make the world economically flat would be to have a global minimum wage – an idea worth considering.

A legislator argues in favor of more toll roads and streamlining local and state agencies involved in planning.

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Look for Georgia's technical colleges to continue to play an important role in the state's economic well being.

On Jan. 1, 2007, only two of 10 Metro Atlanta counties - DeKalb and Cobb - will have a leader who has served more than two years in office.

The United States has successfully survived and thrived through 50 years in which enemies such as the Soviet Union and Communist China had nuclear weapons on a far greater scale than Iran and North Korea will.