Peter Lord
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Peter B. Lord has been a reporter at The Providence Journal since 1979. He has been The Journal's environmental reporter since 1981. Lord has a bachelor's degree from the University of Connecticut and a master's degree in marine affairs from the University of Rhode Island.
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
Latest Stories by Peter Lord
- 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