Peter Lord

Latest Fact-Checks by Peter Lord

• Rep. DaSilva says R.I. pays hundreds of thousands of dollars for out-of-state care for children in state custody April 8, 2011
• AFL-CIO President Nee says public support growing for unions, collective bargaining March 31, 2011
• Rep. Brien says Woonsocket needs garbage-burning power plant because of the high price of electricity generated by foreign oil March 27, 2011
• Correctional officer says Rhode Island has nation’s most generous “good time” policy for prisoners March 21, 2011
• Advocacy group says 25 percent of Rhode Islanders have criminal record March 10, 2011
• McKay says Sen. Whitehouse said on the Senate floor: “Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist.” March 6, 2011
• Palumbo says there are 500,000 registered sex offenders in U.S. and 100,000 are unaccounted for March 3, 2011
• Raimondo says law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions February 27, 2011
• Chain e-mail says welfare programs caused more long-term damage to Detroit than the atomic bomb caused to Hiroshima February 18, 2011
• Ocean State Policy Research Institute says Rhode Island’s estate tax is the most significant reason people leave the state February 13, 2011