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Meghan Ashford-Grooms
PolitiFact Texas staff writer
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Meghan Ashford-Grooms is a PolitiFact Texas staff writer and a student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Before this year, she worked for five years as a copy editor and wire editor on the Austin American-Statesman's news desk, where she edited stories, wrote headlines and scoured the wires for stories about government. She previously worked as a features reporter and designer at the Gazette in Prince George's County, Maryland, and started her career in 2001 on the news desk at The Tennessean in Nashville.
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Latest Fact-Checks by Meghan Ashford-Grooms
- Jeff Wentworth says he restored prayer and the pledge to Texas schools May 25, 2012
- Williamson County DA John Bradley says challenger Duty has never prosecuted an adult felony case May 24, 2012
- Travis Commissioner Ron Davis says more than 40% of bond money to be spent in his precinct because he’s quick to identify projects May 21, 2012
- Brigid Shea says Lee Leffingwell raised Austin’s taxes 20 percent May 11, 2012
- Austin mayoral hopeful Brigid Shea says incumbent Lee Leffingwell voted for a toll lane on MoPac May 9, 2012
- Ron Paul says 40,000 new laws were “put on the books” on the first day of 2012 April 27, 2012
- State Rep. Donna Howard says Texas spending $500 less per student on average April 26, 2012
- David Dewhurst says state general revenue spending has dropped about 11% on his watch April 20, 2012
- U.S. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez says that in Arizona, Mitt Romney said the state’s SB 1070 law should be model for nation April 11, 2012
- David Dewhurst says poverty ranks up by 6.4 million under Obama April 10, 2012
Latest Stories by Meghan Ashford-Grooms
- Fact-check: Is replacing Joe Biden on the ticket ‘unlawful’? Election law experts say it’s not July 22, 2024
- United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide September 27, 2022
- Would Tom Hanks have qualified for a coronavirus test in the US? March 12, 2020
- Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address February 5, 2020
- What we know about Shadow, Acronym and the Iowa caucuses February 4, 2020
- A new look for the PolitiFact website February 2, 2020
- PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions January 31, 2020
- No rating reached on claim about Adan Ballesteros and “cocaine blood money” June 25, 2012
- Texas runoffs mean two more months of fact-checks May 30, 2012
- Planned Parenthood versus the State of Texas May 1, 2012
- Ron Paul’s 40,000 new laws April 27, 2012
- Perry’s Coyote Special difficult to order? April 24, 2012
- U.S. Senate debate: ‘Facts are stubborn things’ April 14, 2012
- Is ‘pink slime’ safe? April 12, 2012
- Has cost of 2010 federal health care law doubled? March 23, 2012
- About that chain email you got … we check those, too February 29, 2012
- Ron Paul’s claim on gas prices touches off fire February 24, 2012