In this week’s Politifact: a fact check that started with a KUT News report. Emily Donahue with KUT News spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s PolitFact Texas team. It all started with a KUT News report on Mayor Lee Leffingwell’s push for non-stop flights from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to Europe. We quoted Austin lawyer Pete Winstead, who said Austin is the biggest city in the country without a nonstop flight to a European capital. PolitiFact Texas started with a Census Bureau breakdown indicating that a dozen cities are more populous than Austin, starting with New York and extending to Dallas, San Jose, Jacksonville and Indianapolis. It also checked travel websites and with...
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A new poll finds support for state-funded family planning from Texans across race, religion and party affiliation. The survey by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund found more than 70 percent of registered Texas voters support family planning funding such as birth control. The finding includes groups thought to be more socially conservative, like Republican women, Hispanics and Catholics. The poll finds 50 percent of Republicans, both men and women, said they think state funding of family planning service is important. Bob Carpenter, president for Chesapeake Beach Consulting and Anna Greenberg, vice president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research,...
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