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Numbers went up. Why is less clear.
Lincoln Chafee
"Since I took office in January 2011, we have created 11,100 Rhode Island-based jobs."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, February 2nd, 2014
One did, and he ignores sponsored amendments
Ian Prior
"Of the 20 bills [Rep. David] Cicilline has sponsored in his three years in office, not a single one has advanced past the embryonic committee stage."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Separate payment required -- by the feds
Barth Bracy
Gov. Lincoln Chafee has imposed "a mandatory abortion fee" on all Rhode Islanders who buy health insurance through the state’s Obamacare exchange.
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Bond rating veils full story
American LeadHERship PAC
Under Mayor Angel Taveras "Providence’s bond rating was downgraded from A to BBB, two steps above junk-bond status."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, September 15th, 2013
Near last in N.E., but not in U.S.
Frank Annunziato
Salaries for URI faculty are second to last among New England land grant universities and in lowest 20 percent of major U.S. research institutions
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Saturday, September 7th, 2013
Flat at record highs
Steve Goreham
"Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, August 25th, 2013
Try seven, not two
James Vincent
Twenty four states have voter ID or comparable restrictions; before Barack Obama was elected, it was two.
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, August 11th, 2013
99.9 percent of the ice sheet still there
Brian Schatz
"For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During that month, an estimated 97% of the ice sheet thawed."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Monday, August 5th, 2013
Not "much," not "many."
Al Gore
The ocean is now "much more acidic . . . than it has been for many millions of years."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Monday, July 22nd, 2013
"Don't know" or "Don't care" weren't options
Raymond Gallison
"Seventy-four percent of Rhode Islanders support [a] national popular vote [for president] because they, as I, believe in one person-one vote."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, June 30th, 2013
Facts fuzzy on fund fees
Frank Caprio
Since Gina Raimondo took office, investment fees on the state's pension portfolio "have gone up from about $12 million annually to about $50 million."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
Not just for schools
Joee Lindbeck
"Two years ago Providence alone spent $50,000 a year notifying the school department" about residents in the state's sex offender registry.
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, May 12th, 2013
A question of degree(s)
Sheldon Whitehouse
"Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, April 28th, 2013
Police can seize handguns, not rifles
Linda Finn
Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, "they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Not that simple
Gina Raimondo
"Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Thursday, April 18th, 2013
False for second test, it may become true for third
Eva Marie Mancuso
When the NECAP proficiency test is re-given to the kids the second and third time, harder questions are taken out.
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Local gun culture might be one key
Facebook posts
"Harvard Study Finds States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
EDC is out of its own loop
Jim Taricani
"No one knows who bought the [38 Studios] bonds. And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Monday, April 8th, 2013
Overstate’s tiny park’s economic impact
Jack Reed
"Even Roger Williams National Memorial in my home state of Rhode Island attracted nearly 51,000 visitors in 2011, with non local visitors adding more than $3.2 million to the local economy."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Split vote
Robert Kando
Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they don’t meet suggested federal standards.
— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Saturday, March 16th, 2013