John Hill

Latest Fact-Checks by John Hill

• Dawson Hodgson says R.I. Attorney General Peter Kilmartin never objected to the parole of murderer Alfred Brissette April 30, 2014
• Raimondo touts having cleared 900 claims in backlogged victims’ fund April 27, 2014
• Ken Block says 9 percent of R.I. workers go on short-term disability every year, for an average of 12 weeks each April 15, 2014
• Allan Fung says he had to pay a $100 hazardous materials fee to the state when he hired a campaign manager March 23, 2014
• New England NAACP says African-Americans in U.S. are arrested on marijuana charges at more than three times the rate of whites March 16, 2014
• Ken Block says that under a bill before the R.I. legislature, “you’d have to go to court to fire an employee.” March 10, 2014
• Author Bing West says 75% of young adults in U.S. not mentally or physically fit to serve in military March 2, 2014
• Rep. Leonidas Raptakis: R.I. murderers’ parole wait shortest in Northeast U.S. February 22, 2014
• Of minimum wage workers in Rhode Island “only 14 percent serve as sole income earner for their family” February 14, 2014
• R.I. Gov. Lincoln Chafee says his administration created 11,100 jobs since 2011 February 2, 2014