Latest Stories By W. Gardner Selby

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Texas judge read PolitiFact before finding school finance system unconstitutional

February 19, 2013

A news bulletin said PolitiFact influenced a judge’s decision that the Texas school funding system is again unconstitutional.

Aw shucks. Really?

UPDATED: California pokes at Texas mostly hold up

February 14, 2013

A Sacramento Bee editorial leveled several criticisms of Texas. We rated most of them True or Mostly True.

A’s the most common college grade?

January 31, 2013

An Austin opinion column led us to consider the prevalence of college A's.
 

Rick Perry fulfills, achieves compromises on 54 percent of his campaign promises

January 28, 2013

The Texas governor has fulfilled, or compromised on, more than half the promises he made winning re-election.

Doggett v. Cornyn

January 25, 2013

Lloyd Doggett drew a Half True bead on John Cornyn’s mention of partly shutting down the government.
 

Austin mayor’s watery claim

January 22, 2013

Lee Leffingwell’s claim about water quality proved iffy.

 

MLK, Romney and the GOP

January 18, 2013

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been central to two fact checks.








 

Perry’s “phenomenal” False

January 16, 2013

Rick Perry proclaimed a "phenomenal" increase in school funding. It shakes out as a decrease.
 

PolitiFact Texas turns 3

January 14, 2013

The Austin American-Statesman's Texas-centric venture in fact-checking political figures just turned three.

A $300 million fact check

January 9, 2013

As lawmakers convened, a state board authorized the release of millions of dollars for public schools--reminding us of a pair of relevant fact checks.

Smoking out Rick Perry, David Dewhurst and Joe Straus

January 7, 2013

More than 100 times, claims by Rick Perry and two fellow leaders have met the Truth-O-Meter, sometimes to smoky results.

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