Texas U.S. Sen. John Cornyn recently floated an “inconvenient factoid” about Democrats and debt. KUT’s Emily Donahue fact-checks the statement with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas....
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Could a board created under the federal health care law come between you and your own doctor?...
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In the dozen U.S. cities more populous than Austin, and these include Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, some or a majority of council members are elected from districts....
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In a political double-header, PolitiFact Texas checks two Ryan-related claims....
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Before David Dewhurst lost the republican senate runoff, interesting signs in the Texas border region caught his attention....
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in an interview that more than 200 dead people voted in May’s Texas primaries, so naturally PolitiFact Texas checked it out....
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In a radio ad the Club for Growth Action, an anti-tax Washington political action committee, suggests Republican Senate candidate David Dewhurst simply isn’t conservative, and it invokes newspapers as proof. KUT's Nathan Bernier talks with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s...
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In his keynote speech June 8 at the Texas Democratic Party Convention, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro blamed the governor of Texas for 12,000 teachers going jobless....
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All of the Republican state senators except one have signed a letter assailing Ted Cruz for his characterization of the Senate’s actions under David Dewhurst, the state’s lieutenant governor. PolitiFact Texas examines some claims....
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PolitiFact checks whether Austin is the nation's biggest city with a Tier One research university but no medical school....
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Some Travis County voters got a mailer before the May Democratic primary accusing Constable Adan Ballesteros of accepting cocaine blood money, a charge Ballesteros disputes....
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For all the attacks the Republicans running for U.S. Senate have lobbed at each other, they agree on many aspects of immigration....
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While addressing the state GOP convention earlier this month, Gov. Rick Perry accused said America elected the wrong person in 2008 and said President Barack Obama had "provided guns to Mexican drug cartels." ...
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It was a refrain at last week’s state Republican convention: Barack Obama is a socialist. Meantime, a U.S. Senate candidate at the state Democratic convention declared that his July runoff opponent previously ran statewide as a Republican. KUT’s Ben Philpott went over the contentions with...
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