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Reporter/Curator

Cassie Owens is a reporter/curator with Billy Penn. Her writing has been featured in Next City, Spoke, Metro and Philadelphia City Paper, among other publications.

Featured Statements

Wendell Young
stated on March 31, 2017 in an op-ed:

House Bill 991 "could lead to the opening of as many as 2,000 new liquor stores."

By Cassie Owens • April 7, 2017
Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2017 in a tweet:

"Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."

By Cassie Owens • March 28, 2017
John Eichelberger
stated on February 13, 2017:

Inner-city students "fall back and don’t succeed, whereas if there was a less intensive track, they would."

By Cassie Owens • February 27, 2017
Joe DeFelice
stated on January 25, 2017:

"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."

By Cassie Owens • January 31, 2017
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stated on August 5, 2016 in various websites:

That 59 divisions in Philly had no votes for Romney in 2012 is "(a) mathematical and statistical impossibility."

By Cassie Owens • August 12, 2016
Ed Rendell
stated on July 27, 2016 in an interview with Politico's Burgess Everett:

"I’m not one for name calling."

By Cassie Owens • July 28, 2016
Rick Saccone
stated on July 13, 2016 in floor remarks during a House session:

"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."

By Cassie Owens • July 18, 2016
Mike Turzai
stated on June 15, 2016 in an op-ed for PennLive:

"Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black."

By Cassie Owens • July 13, 2016
Jim Kenney
stated on April 25, 2015:

On eliminating the influence of money in policy campaigns

By Cassie Owens • June 28, 2016
Jim Kenney
stated on June 23, 2016 in remarks at the Better Bike Share conference:

My administration is "well represented both racially, ethnically and gender-wise."

By Cassie Owens • June 24, 2016