Latest Fact-Checks By April Hunt

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Claim about DeKalb finances hits mark

June 9, 2015

"Our reserves are now in much better shape than they were just a few years ago."

Will out-of-staters or Georgians pay most of the new hotel fee?

May 25, 2015

About 85 percent of hotel guests who will pay the new $5 hotel/motel fee will be from outside Georgia.

Georgia on pace for 1,200 roadway deaths?

May 20, 2015

Georgia is on track for 1,200 traffic fatalities this year, a reversal of nine years of declines.

Fair Tax claim ignores contradictory economic models

May 18, 2015

The Fair Tax proposal encourages innovation and investment "level the playing field" for American companies to compete globally.

Advocacy group overreaches with claim on NYPD shootings

May 12, 2015

"Once again, a police officer has been killed with an illegal gun from Georgia – a state that last year did the NRA’s bidding and…

Gwinnett DA over-reaches on Sheriff Hill shooting statement

May 6, 2015

"A sitting sheriff cannot be charged except by a warrant issued by a Superior Court judge."

Sen. Perdue overstates real reduction in U.S. armed forces

May 4, 2015

The United States is "about to have the smallest Army since before WWII, the smallest Navy since WWI and the smallest Air Force ever."

Pet-death claim leaves out important details

April 29, 2015

Delta has had the most animal deaths among U.S. carriers in the past five years

Distracted driving behind the jump in roadway fatalities

April 28, 2015

Distracted driving such as texting behind the wheel is behind a rise in traffic deaths on Georgia roadways this year.

Maybe not today, and maybe under a different name, but tax claim mostly on target

April 27, 2015

The recently passed transportation funding bill is a billion-dollar tax increase for Georgians.

New hotel fee adds costs – but not always to guests

April 15, 2015

A $5-a-night hotel/motel tax that’s part of the transportation bill will hurt Georgia’s convention business by adding extra costs for large groups coming to the…

The session isn’t over until the fat gavel bangs

April 10, 2015

The Georgia Legislature’s last day of session ends at midnight.

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