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Readers favored beer and college statements

Our fact-checks about college tuition and the craft beer industry were reader favorites last week. We also checked how many Texas college students arrive academically unprepared and whether an Austin elementary school is rooted in the Texas Constitution.

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Kasich making progress on some campaign promises

The Kasich-O-Meter tracks Gov. John Kasich's performance toward fulfilling pledges he made on the campaign trail.

We identified 21 specific promises he repeated several times, most of which deal with taxes, the state budget and education.

Here's some recent  updates.

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Fact-checking claims about Planned Parenthood

The group has been a topic of debate for weeks. We put some of the claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

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Some claims held water. Others needed to be flushed.

PolitiFact Georgia had a week of extremes.  

The Truth-O-Meter dished out one Mostly True and a True to the head of a conservation group on water issues and prospective GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on prisons. The Deal-O-Meter ruled Gov. Nathan Deal was making progress on a promise he made about the Race to the Top education program.

Then the Truth-O-Meter lit Georgia presidential prospect Herman Cain’s Pants on Fire. He claimed Planned Parenthood was started to kill black babies before they were born.

The Obameter gave a "Promise Broken" to President Barack Obama’s on foreclosure prevention.

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Are Republicans moving the goalposts on the budget debate?

We review the evidence available outside the closed-door negotiations.

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Putting Donald Trump to the Truth-O-Meter

With a new NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll showing Trump tied for second for the Republican nomination for president, we'll be checking his claims more often.

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How likely are you to be struck by lightning?

State Rep. Van Taylor says you're more likely to get zapped than to be shot by a concealed handgun license holder. We weren't so sure.

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Check, please? Our tab on alcohol-related claims

When San Antonio state Rep. Mike Villarreal recently piped up about the growth of the craft beer industry, he stepped into familiar Truth-O-Meter terrain.

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Flip-O-Meter bounces back to life

It was a slow winter for our Flip-O-Meter. But it is back in action with recent flips by Obama, Gingrich and a Half Flip by Tim Kaine.

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Will McDonnell keep campaign pledge on bipartisan redistricting?

McDonnell pledged to establish a bipartisan citizens’ commission to draw election maps. He appointed the 11-member panel in January and it has drawn electoral maps with an eye toward compact districts, not partisan concerns.

But Tucker Martin, McDonnell’s director of communications, last week distanced the administration from from the panel. He said "the recommendations of the commission are theirs alone; they are not recommendations of the governor."

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Barack Obama in 2012: The re-election effort begins

The president formally launches his 2012 campaign in an e-mail to supporters. We review a few notable fact-checks from nearly 300.

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McCaul’s explosive claim was readers’ favorite

Our review of U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul’s comment about terrorists putting explosives into baby dolls was a reader favorite last week. But we also checked eye-catching statements by Sen. John Cornyn and state Rep. Sylvester Turner.

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