Max M. Marin
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Reporter. Investigations team @PhillyInquirer / email: mmarin at inquirer dot com
Philadelphia, PA
Joined September 2013
RT @PhillyInquirer: Reporters Max Marin and Ryan Briggs spent the last few months buying “legal” weed. for work. Their investigation rev….
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RT @FeliciaGans: Pennsylvania’s unregulated hemp stores are booming, but tests show products are rife with toxic and illicit chemicals. Alm….
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Almost every sample The Inquirer had tested was over the legal potency or contained mold or pesticides.
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RT @jblumgart: "Three [samples] exceeded legal limits for pesticides in New Jersey, including carbofuran, a neurotoxin banned in the United….
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Almost every sample The Inquirer had tested was over the legal potency or contained mold or pesticides.
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RT @SStirling: Pennsylvania’s Wild West of unregulated weed . Almost every sample The Inquirer tested was over the legal potency or contai….
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Almost every sample The Inquirer had tested was over the legal potency or contained mold or pesticides.
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RT @jblumgart: As the strike ends, I want to give extreme kudos to @sbcmw who covered the hell out of this thing. (I particularly loved his….
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So far, the national press has largely ignored Philadelphia's first strike by city workers since 1986.
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RT @sbcmw: 🚨 The Philadelphia city worker strike is over. 🚨. Mayor Cherelle Parker and AFSCME D 33 Prez Greg Boulware reached a deal early….
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RT @JoeYerardi: Pennsylvania has one of the highest SNAP "error rates" of any state, which puts it on track to shoulder up to $800 million….
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Pennsylvania has one of the highest SNAP "error rates" of any state, which puts it on track to shoulder millions in additional funding costs should congressional changes pass.
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RT @IngaSaffron: Just like any slumlord, Philly’s government treats its buildings like assets that can br disposed of and monetized. Great….
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The city-owned historic property has become a gallery for trash, needles, and graffiti.
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RT @samanthamelamed: Dozens of Philly immigrants were unexpectedly ordered to report to ICE on Father's Day. Some families that had planned….
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Immigrants across Philadelphia received terse text messages or app notifications on Friday evening, demanding they come to the ICE office on North Eighth Street Sunday, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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RT @JoeYerardi: An important investigation from @maddiehanna, @LizzieMulvey, and @enactdev: Pennsylvania is supposed to "immediately" suspe….
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The Pennsylvania Department of Education's system for handling teacher misconduct is sometimes murky, and there have been failures in the system for notifying schools of an educator's arrest.
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RT @rw_briggs: Double header for Philly Sheriff's Office news. First, they are asking the city to nearly double their $34M budget and see….
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Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal pitched City Council on a major increase to her staff and $34 million budget, and sought leases for a new office headquarters and a local academy.
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RT @EllieRushing: The city’s Kensington Wellness Court has been placed on hold amid judges’ mounting frustration with the city officials ta….
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Wellness court is on pause amid a months-long frustration between the courts and Mayor Cherelle L. Parker's team over how the program was launched. One judge called city leaders "fake."
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RT @Vellastrations: I don't like discussing my personal life, but I'll do it for a good cause. More than 100,000 people nationwide, includi….
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More than 100,000 people nationwide, including 5,000 in the Philadelphia area, are waiting for organ donations, a reality that was unfamiliar to Vinny Vella — until he faced end-stage kidney failure.
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RT @JoeYerardi: Pennsylvania has a state-run liquor monopoly. Thus, you can FOIA an entire year's worth of alcohol sales data which is exac….
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Analysis of a year's worth of Fine Wine and Good Spirits sales data.
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RT @fallonroth_: Remember those $100 America PAC checks Elon Musk promised to some Pennsylvania voters? Well, a new lawsuit filed in Pa. al….
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The suit brought by a Bucks County resident said he is owed a check for more than $20,000 after working as canvasser and soliciting signatures for the pledge.
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RT @JuliaTerruso: Frustrating aside here: Fetterman hasn't granted an Inquirer interview request in over a year. He does plenty of hallway….
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RT @JuliaTerruso: Among the government leases targeted by DOGE for termination: the apartment used by Ashley Biden's Secret Service detail….
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A spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service said the Elon Musk-led cost-cutting initiative had caused some confusion.
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RT @PhillyInquirer: DOGE cancels Philly apartment lease for Secret Service agents guarding Biden’s daughter
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A spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service said the Elon Musk-led cost-cutting initiative had caused some confusion.
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New dive into DOGE's federal contract cuts in PA: . - HUD and CFPB saw biggest cuts.- More than half of businesses were minority & women-owned.- DOGE took credit for axing a $34 million USAID contract that Biden admin ended last year . w/ @JuliaTerruso .
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An Inquirer review of DOGE's Pa. contracts shows terminated work for recruiting people to work in the dairy industry at UDSA, for mental health support at USAID, and public housing programs.
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RT @fallonroth_: "About 57% of the companies on the Pennsylvania list are also owned by minorities, veterans, or women.".Great reporting by….
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An Inquirer review of DOGE's Pa. contracts shows terminated work for recruiting people to work in the dairy industry at UDSA, for mental health support at USAID, and public housing programs.
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