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Michael McKinney is a reporter at The Providence Journal, in Rhode Island. He has worked at The Journal since 2002, covering courts and local and statewide news. Previously, he worked for the News-Times in Danbury, Conn., covering the Connecticut state legislature.

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Peter Nightingale
stated on May 8, 2013 in a web commentary:

"The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S."

By Michael McKinney • May 31, 2013
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
stated on April 18, 2013 in a fundraising letter:

"Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better."

By Michael McKinney • May 26, 2013
Jack Reed
stated on April 7, 2013 in a television interview:

North Korea has a "substantial standing army, one of the largest, certainly the largest per capita, in the world."

By Michael McKinney • May 10, 2013
David Cicilline
stated on April 19, 2013 in an appearance on 10 News Conference:

"If you are a federally licensed gun dealer and your license is revoked because you've engaged in misconduct ... your entire inventory under prevailing law is deemed your personal collection. You then can sell it free from any background checks."

By Michael McKinney • May 4, 2013
Linda Finn
stated on April 12, 2013 in a TV interview:

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."

By Michael McKinney • April 23, 2013
Ban the Box RI
stated on March 20, 2013 in a video posted on YouTube:

"In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year."

By Michael McKinney • April 15, 2013
Susan Yoshihara
stated on March 21, 2013 in testimony before a R.I. Senate committee:

Assertions that it makes no difference whether children are raised by heterosexual or homosexual parents have been "shattered by the latest and best social science and research."

By Michael McKinney • April 7, 2013
SEIU
stated on March 5, 2013 in a lawsuit:

"There is no clinical evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers protects patients."

By Michael McKinney • March 17, 2013
Christopher Blazejewski
stated on February 28, 2013 in a news release:

"In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day."

By Michael McKinney • March 10, 2013
Linda Finn
stated on February 26, 2013 in a news release:

"Rhode Island could tell you who has a camper, but we couldn't figure out who has a gun."

By Michael McKinney • March 7, 2013

Truth be told, PolitiFact Rhode Island turns 3!

By Tim Murphy • July 5, 2013
Gun claims examined by PolitiFactRI often misfire

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 9, 2013