SQLAlchemy db not loading changes

I have a flask website set up with mod_wsgi and SQLAlchemy.

My application db works perfectly on my local machine. On the remote server, I am able to read the db successfully only when I access it from the shell through the SQLAlchemy API. My mod_wsgi app is not reading the database correctly, though.

This is on the remote server python shell:

>>> if Job.query.filter(Job.date == date.today()).first():
...     print('yay, i found search results!')
... 
yay, i found search results!

Here is the (simplified) chunk of code in my flask views.py file that is functioning locally, but not on the remote server (notice that the SQL query is exactly the same as the one executed on the remote python shell):

# today's job if it exists
if Job.query.filter(Job.date == date.today()).first():  # today could be none
    return '<p>There is kitchen duty today</p>'
else:
    return '<p>No kitchen duty today!</p>'

Locally, accessing the URL that maps to this view shows the HTML

There is kitchen duty today!

On my remote server, the HTML

No kitchen duty today!

shows up, even though that same expression is not None when queried through the remote python shell.

This leads me to believe that the WSGI server that is running my flask app is not reading the SQLAlchemy db correctly.

A few observations I've made/relevant information:

• When I delete my SQLite3 db, my remote WSGI server gives a 500 error, so I know it is at least kind of reading the right file.

• The path I gave to SQLAlchemy for my SQLite3 db is a static hard-coded path to make sure the WSGI server isn't accessing a different db file accidentally.

• Here is the guide I used to setup Flask http://aaronpresley.com/deploying-a-flask-project-on-webfaction/

• Here is my source code as it currently stands on my remote server https://github.com/luisnaranjo733/pdtTools/tree/kitchen

I would greatly appreciate any help here. Thank you!