Latest Fact Checks By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

R.I. State Rep. Michael Chippendale says guns don’t increase the risk of suicide because suicidal people will find a way to kill themselves

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

April 21, 2013

If an individual is determined "to commit suicide, the availability of a gun is not a factor" because they will find a way.

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R.I. Treasurer Gina Raimondo repeats oft-quoted, but misleading, statistic in equal pay debate

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

April 18, 2013

"Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men."

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R.I. Board of Education Chairwoman Eva Marie Mancuso says harder questions are dropped from NECAP re-tests

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

April 14, 2013

When the NECAP proficiency test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, harder questions are taken out.

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Facebook post ignores caveats in citing Harvard study on gun laws

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

April 10, 2013

"Harvard Study Finds States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths."

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Rhode Island TV reporter Jim Taricani says 38 Studios bond offer promised anonymity for buyers

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

April 8, 2013

"No one knows who bought the [38 Studios] bonds. And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous."

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Rhode Island Catholic Bishop Tobin says U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage could nullify any Rhode Island votes on the issue

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

April 3, 2013

"Any legislative action that is taken now could very well be rendered completely null and void by the decision of the Supreme Court expected this…

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R.I. Education Commissioner Deborah Gist says 70-75 percent of CCRI students need to take remedial math

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

March 31, 2013

When students leave our high schools and they go to the community college, 70-75 percent of them have to pay to take remedial math.

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Leader of Alliance for Safe Communities says employers can get thousands of dollars in tax breaks and bond money to hire convicted felons

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

March 3, 2013

"There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program…

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Gary Sasse says 90 percent of $35 million in tax credits went to CVS and two out-of-state companies

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

February 24, 2013

Of six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, "three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located…

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Rep. Brian Patrick Kennedy suggests employers and schools are banned from monitoring workers in their cubicles and students in their dorm rooms

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

February 17, 2013

Employers and schools have no right to conduct "surveillance of a dorm room or a worker’s cubicle."

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Rhode Island Coastal Resources geologist says sea level has risen roughly 10 inches since 1930

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

February 8, 2013

Tide gauges measuring sea level in Rhode Island since 1930 have risen "maybe about 10 inches since that time."

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Central Falls, R.I. animal control says one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in just five years

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.

February 2, 2013

"Statistics show one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in five years."

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