Gov. Greg Abbott is aboard with legislation preventing cities, rather than the state, from regulating fracking. The restrictions were proposed after Denton voters barred hydraulic fracking in the North Texas city.
The Dallas Morning News advises, here, that Rick Perry plans to declare his second bid for president June 4 in Dallas.
Translation: We're about 20 days away from Texans Perry and Ted Cruz facing off for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination--plus a few others, of course.
Rick Perry as governor urged Congress to keep the Export-Import Bank alive.
Perry, no longer governor, this week declared the bank should die. That's a FULL FLOP for Perry on the PolitiFact Flip-O-Meter.
Carly Fiorina, freshly declared for president, was born in Austin, Texas, though mostly grew up in the San Francisco area.
See her Truth-O-Meter report card HERE.
Several presidential hopefuls have Texas links--and previously, two presidents were born there.
Chatter fanned by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones about federal troops imposing martial law in Texas isn't substantiated, news reports indicate.
Read a wide-ranging rundown of the situation from reporter Jonathan Tilove of the Austin American-Statesman, here.
BONUS: See our 2014 fact check of a claim rooted in a stunt undertaken by a Jones-backed operation that University of Texas students signed a petition supportive of killing babies after birth.
Bernie Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont mulling a run for president, told an Austin crowd a lot of Americans have very little saved for a rainy day.
If ISIS has a camp near El Paso, no government officials admitted it to us. Nor did anyone hint there's something to that declaration by Judicial Watch.
A first-year statewide elected official caught our attention by saying West Texas towns are so drought-struck, they're lately trucking in water.
But Sid Miller, the Texas agriculture commissioner sworn in this January, had no current-day examples.
Actor Jon Hamm, who stars in the "Mad Men" TV series, allegedly hazed and physically abused a fellow University of Texas student in fall 1990, according to documents brought to light this week.
Prompted by a tabloid’s story, we checked into what officials and records confirm.
A reader asked us to check a Facebook post showing Ted Cruz saying there's no place for gays or atheists in "my America."
Rand Paul, who just declared for president, has met the Truth-O-Meter--35 times.
He's also the second Texan seeking the Republican nomination. Former Gov. Rick Perry has said he'll reveal his desires in May or June.
OK, Paul is from Kentucky. And he was born in Pennsylvania. But he grew up in Texas; his father, former presidential hopeful Ron Paul, was a Lake Jackson congressman.
As shown below, Sen. Paul has a wide-ranging Truth-O-Meter record. MORE:
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