Wait, there could be how many new liquor stores in PA?
By Cassie Owens
April 7, 2017 House Bill 991 "could lead to the opening of as many as 2,000 new liquor stores."
Philly mayor draws incorrect immigrant biz stat from flawed fact-sheet
By Cassie Owens
March 28, 2017 "Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."
Checking rural PA Republican’s claim that city students need ‘less intensive’ education
By Cassie Owens
February 27, 2017 Inner-city students "fall back and don’t succeed, whereas if there was a less intensive track, they would."
Is Philly’s sanctuary city status putting residents in danger?
By Cassie Owens
January 31, 2017 "From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct…
Internet: Philly rigged the 2012 presidential election. Experts: Still no
By Cassie Owens
August 12, 2016 That 59 divisions in Philly had no votes for Romney in 2012 is "(a) mathematical and statistical impossibility."
Rendell ‘not one for name-calling’; SOBs, idiots, wusses beg to differ
By Cassie Owens
July 28, 2016 "I’m not one for name calling."
The curious connection between illicit cigarette sales and ISIS
By Cassie Owens
July 18, 2016 "Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the…
Surprising PA budget claim from GOP leader almost checks out
By Cassie Owens
July 13, 2016 "Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black."
The dark money that helped pass a soda tax and the mayoral candidate who opposed it
By Cassie Owens
June 28, 2016 On eliminating the influence of money in policy campaigns
The Kenney Administration and the thorny problem of diversity in city government
By Cassie Owens
June 24, 2016 My administration is "well represented both racially, ethnically and gender-wise."
Pat Toomey’s beef with Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland for freeing ‘extremists’
By Cassie Owens
June 7, 2016 Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist…
Pat Toomey says Katie McGinty agrees with Hillary Clinton on everything — does she?
Says Katie McGinty "actually agrees with Hillary Clinton and the most liberal wing of the Democrats on everything."