Latest Stories By W. Gardner Selby

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Mailbag: ‘Your journalism professors would be so proud of you’

Readers blast. We share. It’s mailbag time.



 

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Were two-thirds of groups targeted by IRS not conservative?

After the IRS’s admission that it improperly targeted conservative groups, Progress Texas said two thirds of the scrutinized groups were not conservatives.

That's unknown and unlikely, we concluded, making for smoke.

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Rick Perry pitch touches on fact-checked claims

Perry’s fresh pitch-and-woo for businesses to move to Texas touches on established claims about jobs and people heading our way.

The Truth-O-Meter rated the claims Mostly True to False.

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Legislated spending of up to $4 billion not expected to halve Texas rainy day fund

A small-government advocate says Texas legislators agreed to cut the state’s rainy day fund by half. That’s incorrect.

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If you vote in Austin primaries, you probably request a Democratic ballot

A Republican analyst's tweet led us to learn that 7 in 10 Austin voters in party primaries exclusively fill out the Democratic Party's ballot.

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Rick Perry’s count of $10,000 college degrees

Rick Perry touted 13 Texas institutions offering $10,000 college degrees. We wondered.

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El Paso “safest” large city in US? Hold fire

El Paso's county judge said the city is the safest burg of its size in the country. That sounded familiar--and flawed.

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Susan Combs knows the Truth-O-Meter

Susan Combs knows the Truth-O-Meter. That’s not so for all the prospective contenders to succeed her.

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PolitiFact Texas marks two years on Austin’s KUT FM

Once a week for two years, Austin's KUT News has talked through one of our fact checks.

Cake time? Kind of.

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Bill Hammond says only 25 percent of Texas high school graduates are college ready

A leading business advocate said only one in four Texas high school graduates is college ready. Really?

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Rick Perry, Sam Houston, slavery–and the Boy Scouts

Rick Perry, exhorting the Boy Scouts to continue excluding gays, analogized to Sam Houston and slavery on the eve of the Civil War. We wondered about that.

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Mayor warns of 1 million people “coming to town”

Lee Leffingwell said 1 million additional people are "coming to town." We took that to mean Austin.

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