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Deal: HOPE aid keeps Georgia’s brightest close to home

By Willoughby Mariano

May 1, 2012

Before the HOPE scholarship, "70 percent of the high school students who made 1400 or above on their SAT left the state of Georgia. Now,…

Kingston says oil production down last year under Obama

By Willoughby Mariano

April 24, 2012

Under President Barack Obama’s watch, "oil production on federal lands has decreased 14 percent over the past year."

PolitiFact: Calling HOPE ‘richest’ program goes too far

By Willoughby Mariano

April 23, 2012

Georgia’s HOPE scholarship is "still the richest scholarship program in America."

Graves: Tens of thousands of federal properties are vacant or underused

By Willoughby Mariano

April 20, 2012

"The federal government owns tens of thousands of properties that are vacant or underused."

Flier casts transportation funding plan as never-ending tax

By Willoughby Mariano

April 18, 2012

A proposed regional transportation tax will last "a minimum" of 10 years, and has been approved to last longer.

MAVEN: 200,000 given chance to sound off on tax

By Willoughby Mariano

April 13, 2012

"[O]ver 200,000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred."

Isakson: Keystone pipeline to employ 20,000

By Willoughby Mariano

April 11, 2012

The Keystone oil pipeline "would employ 20,000 people in the United States."

Deal: Fake marijuana use rising, connected to death, violence and “bodily harm”

By Willoughby Mariano

April 9, 2012

"As the usage [of synthetic marijuana] has dramatically increased, instances of violence, bodily harm and even death have risen with it."

Abrams: State per-capita spending among lowest in nation

By Willoughby Mariano

April 3, 2012

"We have the lowest per-capita spending of any state in the nation" except for South Dakota.

Westmoreland: All federal housing programs need bailouts

By Willoughby Mariano

March 30, 2012

"There is not one single federal housing program yet that has not needed a bailout to survive."

U.S. Rep. Price: Health care bill cost projections rose dramatically

By Willoughby Mariano

March 27, 2012

New federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul "will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed."

Ad: Metro Atlantans spend “260 hours a year” commuting

By Willoughby Mariano

March 23, 2012

Metro Atlantans spend "over an hour every day" or "five hours a week" commuting, for a total of "260 hours a year."

Latest Fact Checks By Willoughby Mariano

Deal: HOPE aid keeps Georgia’s brightest close to home

Kingston says oil production down last year under Obama

PolitiFact: Calling HOPE ‘richest’ program goes too far

Graves: Tens of thousands of federal properties are vacant or underused

Flier casts transportation funding plan as never-ending tax

MAVEN: 200,000 given chance to sound off on tax

Isakson: Keystone pipeline to employ 20,000

Deal: Fake marijuana use rising, connected to death, violence and “bodily harm”

Abrams: State per-capita spending among lowest in nation

Westmoreland: All federal housing programs need bailouts

U.S. Rep. Price: Health care bill cost projections rose dramatically

Ad: Metro Atlantans spend “260 hours a year” commuting