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Janel Davis
Janel Davis covers Cobb County. She started at the AJC in 2010 and previously served as a reporter in Maryland, Tennessee and Texas. She is a graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA.
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PolitiFact: Roundup of shutdown claims
The U.S. government is partially shut down, but that hasn’t stopped the political rhetoric coming out of Washington about the shuttering of our federal government, or its causes. PolitiFact and PolitiFact Georgia have closely monitored the comments coming from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. We thought it would ...
PolitiFact: Roundup about health care law
The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, has triggered an avalanche of political rhetoric over the past few years. PolitiFact and PolitiFact Georgia have been keeping tabs on that complex debate, trying to parse truth from fiction. With the Oct. 1 deadline looming for creation of the Obamacare health ...
PolitiFact: Rep. Graves wrong about Buffett’s health law stance
Warren Buffett says stop Obamacare now and start over. — U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, in a Sept. 22 ABC News interview As the nation winds down to a government shutdown and possible default on its debt, the fight over President Barack Obama’s health care law continues. PolitiFact Georgia was asked ...
PolitiFact: Roundup for the past week
PolitiFact Georgia and the AJC Truth-O-Meter kept busy this past week with fact checks on guns, war and the economy. And we wandered a bit afield to check a claim that came from the moon about a long-ago meal there. We examined a gun-control group’s claim about the number of ...
PolitiFact: Math on sequester job cuts doesn’t add up
There has been a renewed focus on jobs and how many the economy has lost as Republicans and Democrats continue to do battle and threat of a government shutdown looms. Recently a political commentator took to Twitter highlighting job losses since across-the-board, automatic federal budget cuts — known as sequestration ...
PolitiFact: Roundup for past week
PolitiFact Georgia and the AJC Truth-O-Meter checked out four claims last week ranging from guns to health care. Our reporters examined the African-American male prison population for a claim made by former President and Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter. We explored the amount of time and money taxpayers — individuals and ...
Paul Broun’s education salaries remark mostly on target
Georgia congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Paul Broun has been a loud voice in the push to reduce government control of education policy. He has criticized the federal Education Department as being a bloated bureaucracy with excessive spending and salaries. In this vein, Broun and other Republican members of the ...
PolitiFact: Pottery class claim takes truth for a spin
The race to fill retiring U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ seat is in full swing with candidates on both sides of the aisle jockeying for early position among their competitors. A common theme, particularly among the GOP candidates, has been the need to rein in wasteful government spending. Former Georgia Secretary ...
PolitiFact: Roundup for past week
PolitiFact Georgia put some serious claims about education, jobs and health care through the AJC Truth-O-Meter this past week. And for a bit of levity, the Grammys. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in town last week discussing Medicaid, and we examined her claim about the program’s ...
PolitiFact: Roundup for past week
PolitiFact Georgia kept the AJC Truth-O-Meter busy this week with checks of four claims about health care, crime and government regulations. With school starting up for another year, we checked a claim about Georgia’s Education Department and changes made to its policies for accepting school credits. We investigated a statement ...
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