Leffingwell and fellow Austin City Council incumbents victorious
Lee Leffingwell and three fellow Austin City Council members won re-election Saturday. We earlier checked some of what was said leading up to the vote.
Lee Leffingwell and three fellow Austin City Council members won re-election Saturday. We earlier checked some of what was said leading up to the vote.
Wondering if candidates for the Austin City Council are accurate about local affordability or taxes or their opponent's fealty to Rick Perry?
We've checked several Austin-centric claims in advance of Saturday's city elections.
Our check of a claim about testing dates in Austin’s schools drew some emails. Let’s open the mailbag.
Ron Paul said at Texas stops that 40,000 new laws landed on the books at the start of 2012.
Not so.
Colbert asked Don McLeroy, a former chairman of the State Board of Education, why he wanted to yank Jefferson from schoolbooks. Not so, McLeroy replied.
The Texan had a point.
We smelled smoke on a chain email saying the May 12 election features a vital issue affecting elderly residents and people with disabilities. The Texas secretary of state even issued a warning.
An Austin librarian made a dramatic claim about school test dates. Then she realized her misstatement.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently touted 50 election-fraud convictions. After a close look, we subtracted 29.
Tom Leppert said in debate that Ted Cruz hasn't led businesses. That holds up.
Several Republicans vying for a shot at succeeding Kay Bailey Hutchison clashed over their respective records in tonight's debate. Even before they tangled, one hopeful re-floated a claim about another that we've checked before.
U.S. Senate candidate David Dewhurst leveled two charges about Barack Obama; one proved True.
Esperanza "Hope" Andrade, Texas’s chief elections officer, unveiled a campaign she described as fighting myths about voting in Texas. And what are those myths?