Latest Fact-Checks By Willoughby Mariano

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Bishop signs letter saying post office faces big pension burden

November 11, 2011

"No other public or private business in America" except for the U.S. Postal Service must fund 100 percent of employee retirement and retirement health costs…

Rainbow/PUSH: Wealthy students get HOPE scholarship

November 9, 2011

In Georgia, "hard-earned lottery dollars are doled out to the scion[s] of wealthy families."

Isakson says energy bills higher than taxes, insurance

November 7, 2011

"The average homeowner spends more than $2,000 each year on energy costs – more than on either real estate taxes or homeowners insurance."

Gingrich claims health care reform includes ‘Death Panels’

October 28, 2011

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was right that President Barack Obama’s health care bill created what "would, in effect, be death panels."

Paul: Herman Cain called Federal Reserve critics “ignorant”

October 25, 2011

GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain called Ron Paul’s followers "ignorant."

Reed sends mixed messages, but does not flip, on Occupy Atlanta

October 24, 2011

On letting Occupy Atlanta protesters stay in Woodruff Park.

Kent: Immigration board can prosecute with Attorney General’s help

October 21, 2011

The newly created state Immigration Enforcement Review Board "can actually prosecute, and get them [violators] into jail, if we bring in the attorney general."

Cain says solar, wind energy have little potential

October 18, 2011

The Department of Energy’s "Billion Ton Study" has shown that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total…

Cain says Medicare, Social Security in financial trouble

October 14, 2011

"Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037."

Former APS head Beverly Hall says national test proves real gains

October 7, 2011

Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to "dramatic" score increases on state tests.

Herman Cain: EPA to regulate dust in 2012

October 5, 2011

An Environmental Protection Agency regulation that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012, regulates dust.

Herman Cain: Recovery 14 million jobs behind typical upswing

October 3, 2011

"If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today."

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