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Cassie Owens
Reporter/Curator
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Stories Published
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Fact-Checks Published
Cassie Owens is a reporter/curator with Billy Penn. Her writing has been featured in Next City, Spoke, Metro and Philadelphia City Paper, among other publications.
Areas of Expertise
Latest Fact-Checks by Cassie Owens
- Wait, there could be how many new liquor stores in PA? April 7, 2017
- Philly mayor draws incorrect immigrant biz stat from flawed fact-sheet March 28, 2017
- Checking rural PA Republican’s claim that city students need ‘less intensive’ education February 27, 2017
- Is Philly’s sanctuary city status putting residents in danger? January 31, 2017
- Internet: Philly rigged the 2012 presidential election. Experts: Still no August 12, 2016
- Rendell ‘not one for name-calling’; SOBs, idiots, wusses beg to differ July 28, 2016
- The curious connection between illicit cigarette sales and ISIS July 18, 2016
- Surprising PA budget claim from GOP leader almost checks out July 13, 2016
- The dark money that helped pass a soda tax and the mayoral candidate who opposed it June 28, 2016
- The Kenney Administration and the thorny problem of diversity in city government June 24, 2016
Latest Stories by Cassie Owens
- Fact-check: Is replacing Joe Biden on the ticket ‘unlawful’? Election law experts say it’s not July 22, 2024
- United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide September 27, 2022
- Would Tom Hanks have qualified for a coronavirus test in the US? March 12, 2020
- Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address February 5, 2020
- What we know about Shadow, Acronym and the Iowa caucuses February 4, 2020
- A new look for the PolitiFact website February 2, 2020
- PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions January 31, 2020
- Why Wolf and the Senate GOP are fighting over unemployment center layoffs November 23, 2016
- Sin taxes and Pennsylvania’s poor: New cigarette levy fits a pattern August 2, 2016
- What causes most gun violence in Philly April 4, 2016
- Impossible to check: John Fetterman’s claim that sanctuary cities are safer February 29, 2016