Fact Check Posts – Politifact

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

Jim Kenney, then mayor-elect, at a Philadelphia neighborhoods town hall

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?

By Cassie Owens , Dávid Tvrdoň , Loghan Thain

May 16, 2016

Says Katie McGinty "actually agrees with Hillary Clinton and the most liberal wing of the Democrats on everything."

Latest Fact Checks By Cassie Owens

Wait, there could be how many new liquor stores in PA?

Philly mayor draws incorrect immigrant biz stat from flawed fact-sheet

Checking rural PA Republican’s claim that city students need ‘less intensive’ education

Is Philly’s sanctuary city status putting residents in danger?

Internet: Philly rigged the 2012 presidential election. Experts: Still no

Rendell ‘not one for name-calling’; SOBs, idiots, wusses beg to differ

The curious connection between illicit cigarette sales and ISIS

Surprising PA budget claim from GOP leader almost checks out

The dark money that helped pass a soda tax and the mayoral candidate who opposed it

The Kenney Administration and the thorny problem of diversity in city government

Pat Toomey’s beef with Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland for freeing ‘extremists’

Pat Toomey says Katie McGinty agrees with Hillary Clinton on everything — does she?