Kyle Wingfield
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Atlanta, GA, United States
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Opinion: No, Senate Republicans aren’t raising taxes on the poor
It seems the latest talking point from the left about GOP tax-reform efforts, specifically the Senate version of the bill, is that it will actually raise taxes on the poor. → Read More
Opinion: Two (maybe three) big developments in Mueller’s probe
A man who led the Trump campaign for part of 2016 surrendered himself Monday on charges that include conspiracy against the United States. And that was the relatively good news about the president's (former) men. → Read More
Opinion: Bipartisan health deal won’t cure what ails Obamacare
We still need to see more details, but there's a pretty good chance the bipartisan health deal announced Tuesday by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) is not going to stabilize markets as advertised. → Read More
Opinion: The real fallout from Trump ending these health subsidies
It's an odd spectacle to see Democrats attacking a proper implementation of Obamacare that is projected to reduce health costs for many consumers and soon lead more people to have insurance. → Read More
Opinion: Who lost the culture war? The side that didn’t fight
The news about film executive Harvey Weinstein, accused by numerous women of sexual harassment and even assault, is being portrayed in part as a political story. There are a couple of obvious reasons for this. → Read More
Opinion: How not to ‘politicize’ tragedies like Las Vegas
A full day later, we still don't have many answers about the gunman in Las Vegas and why he set out to kill dozens and wound hundreds attending a country music festival. We know he had a lot of guns, both in his hotel room at a casino near the festival and at his home. → Read More
Opinion: The Las Vegas shooting and our ‘thoughts and prayers’
The news from Las Vegas is heart-breaking. At least 58 are dead, and more than 500 others wounded, after a man believed to be acting alone opened fire on a crowd of concert-goers from his room at a nearby hotel. It is reportedly the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. → Read More
Opinion: Obamacare’s death spiral takes another turn in Georgia
And you thought last year was bad. That statement could refer to a number of things, but today I’m talking about health-insurance premiums. Georgians shopping on the Obamacare exchange last fall saw double-digit increases for the second straight year. → Read More
Opinion: The stunning, swift downfall of Tom Price
This time last year, Tom Price was handing out campaign contributions to Georgia legislators and giving every impression he was gearing up for a run for governor. Then Donald Trump became president, nominated Price to a high-profile cabinet position, and changed everything. → Read More
Opinion: Why our health-care politics is so jumbled
Repealing Obamacare has proved to be a more difficult task than Republicans imagined. So difficult, in fact, that the latest “Obamacare repeal” bill doesn’t actually repeal Obamacare. → Read More
Opinion: Here’s what’s missing from Atlanta’s new ‘City Design’
Recently I wrote skeptically about the notion Atlanta will add nearly a million new residents within the next couple of decades, tripling the city’s population. A few days after that column ran, the city unveiled a blueprint for handling the influx. Timing is everything, you know. → Read More
Opinion: No, natural disasters like Irma aren’t good for the economy
Once the storm passes, one inevitability is the calculation of the costs of rebuilding the affected areas. And another is the argument some people will make that this rebuilding is actually a kind of economic stimulus. Which is absolute nonsense. → Read More
Opinion: Matt Ryan for Atlanta’s mayor (sort of)
Labor Day traditionally marks the unofficial start to Atlanta’s mayoral election, making for the shortest campaign this side of your senior class president. The candidates have been making the rounds for months, but they only recently qualified for the race. → Read More
Opinion: Why Trump’s DACA move is a prerequisite for immigration fix
Here is the price of governing by executive order: The next executive has the power to undo what you've done. And that is what the Trump administration is doing when it comes to deferred prosecution of some immigrants whose parents brought them to this country illegally as children. → Read More
Opinion: One big thing holding back Georgia’s economy
The problems ailing rural Georgia are, like much in the realm of public policy, complicated. How to improve schools and boost health-care access in sparsely populated areas? How to connect more small-town homes and businesses to high-speed internet? But those tasks seem relatively straightfor... → Read More
Opinion: The other numbers crunch for Georgia’s rural hospitals
Sometimes, while working through a complex problem, a simple but inescapable fact pops up. Here’s such a fact about Georgia’s rural health-care crisis: The minimum population needed to sustain a hospital is 40,000. → Read More
Opinion: Pensions may not make sense for Georgia’s younger teachers
Earlier this summer, my AJC colleague James Salzer broke the news that Georgia expects to have to increase its payment into our Teachers Retirement System by as much as $400 million next year. That’s on top of a $233 million boost this year, which pushed the annual payment above $1.5 billion. → Read More
Opinion: Will Georgia Democrats, GOP see an ‘Ossoff effect’ in 2018?
Thirty days may be an eternity in politics, but it looks like the (mercifully) just-ended special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District could hold some clues that extend into 2018. → Read More
Opinion: Handel’s ‘uniquely American’ story finds its next chapter in Congress
Georgia’s 6th Congressional District has been dissected and analyzed every which way over the past four months. It’s the land of the educated, the affluent, the fiscally conservative but socially moderate. → Read More
Opinion: Why ‘back to normal’ after congressional shooting is a bad thing
It's the day after. Are you back to normal? By "normal," I mean trafficking in the nastiness that's come to characterize our political discourse. And if your answer is yes, you need to take some more time to think things over. → Read More