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Landon Allison is a reporter with PolitiFact New York and a student at St. Bonaventure University.

Featured Statements

Clarence McNeill
stated on April 7, 2021 in an email to students:

The use and possession of marijuana on U.S. college campuses “remains prohibited under federal law”

By Landon Allison • June 7, 2021
Nicholas Langworthy
stated on March 17, 2021 in a mass email:

Residents of New York state “pay the highest taxes in the nation.”

By Landon Allison • April 12, 2021
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 23, 2021 in an interview with WNYC:

“We had the highest number of (military) sexual assaults ever reported in the last year” and “we had the lowest conviction rate and the lowest prosecution rate.”

By Landon Allison • March 25, 2021
Ted Cruz
stated on January 9, 2021 in a tweet:

Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”

By Landon Allison • February 18, 2021
James Tedisco
stated on January 5, 2021 in a news release:

“New York leads the nation in out-migration of residents, with 126,000 people leaving last year and over one million in the past decade.”

By Landon Allison • January 26, 2021