Patrick Madden
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Senior Investigative Reporter @wbur in Boston; past: @wwno @wrkf @wamu885.
New Orleans, La. / Boston, Ma.
Joined April 2010
Hurricanes can unleash toxic chemicals from facilities through storm surge, wind damage and power loss. I looked at this issue for @WBUR and found that most facilities in MA don't have backup power, a safeguard that can help prevent accidents. READ:
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For years the U.S. Chemical Safety Board has urged companies with massive amounts of hazardous chemicals to keep backup generators to protect volatile chemicals. But there’s no federal requirement...
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Congrats!
It's true. I'm heading off on a fabulous new adventure at @MSNBC. Beyond excited. And SO grateful to my @washingtonpost family for making me who I am. Rooting for you, my dear friends and colleagues, to keep shining a light, when our country needs you. Best - Carol
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Interesting to see media promoting specific prop bets to wager on.
This week’s TAIL OR FADE on @FDSportsbook — I pick an o/u player prop, you apply a 50% profit boost token to either side in the tail or fade tab on the app. Today’s pick: I’m going OVER 30.5 points for Jalen Brunson. I think he shows up in a big way. Tail or fade?
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Important to note that the coverage is being pushed by a broadcaster for the Yankees (not Mets.)
The discourse around Juan Soto in NY right now is crazy. Everything he does gets scrutinized. In a game where you fail 7 out of 10 times every failure is being held against him. Everything he’s doing is under a microscope. Is he hustling? What does his body language mean? Should
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Listen to Rumeysa Ozturk’s tearful friends describe “a sweet, caring soul” who throws interfaith dinner parties and organizes shifts at a homeless shelter. She’s now in an ICE cell in Louisiana; a bail hearing is underway
#FreeRumeysa WBUR's @Patrick_Madden reports: For Ozturk's friends and teachers, her ongoing detention and absence from the Medford campus is personal and painful.
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#FreeRumeysa WBUR's @Patrick_Madden reports: For Ozturk's friends and teachers, her ongoing detention and absence from the Medford campus is personal and painful.
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As WBUR's Patrick Madden reports, for Ozturk's friends and teachers, her ongoing detention and absence from the Medford campus is personal and painful.
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"I mean, do they want to dismantle public health?" "We're really talking about deaths." My latest for @NPR is an investigation into a new Louisiana health department policy to ban the promotion of life-saving vaccines.
🚨BREAKING🚨 The Louisiana Department of Health has forbid its staff from promoting COVID, flu or mpox vaccines. It's a dramatic shift in vaccine policy, and a strict and sweeping ban that applies to all aspects of the health department's work. https://t.co/3yzv5MIfGS
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Morning Mass! ☀️ Knowledge is power. The audit law takes effect today, according to the @SecretaryOfMass. While it’s Mr. Secretary’s right to verbally support legislative leaders’ fight for another 30 days & verbally agree w them that the courts decided this matter — our office
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Blue Ridge Public Radio is in the midst of a critical, two-day fund drive to support our coverage of Hurricane Helene and the massive recovery efforts in WNC. Even a one-time gift helps immensely. You can give to @BlueRidgePublic at this link — and thanks!
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A grave at sea? A sea grave? ...
100 yr old coffin with human skeleton found along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County. @CalvertSheriff @nbcwashington
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It’s true. For real. @clancygambit is retiring. Congrats, friend.
It’s official. Thank you, @dcbigjohn and the talented staff at Gambit, The Times-Picayune & The Advocate — and thanks to the many readers who have followed (and critiqued) me over the years. BTW, I’ll still do my Tuesday Commentary on WWLTV.
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We audited DCF because we need to do better by our kids who’ve been traumatized and suffer from mental health issues. #mapoli You can read the full report on our website https://t.co/ycPKLDymQZ OR in the @BostonGlobe at https://t.co/cOxn4lNk6t
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Seriously?!? That’s a travesty.
It just hit me: there are *TWO* reporters left at @wamu885, a station that covers a metropolitan area of 6 million people. That’s one-tenth the size the newsroom was two years ago, and the smallest it has been in two decades.
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How does this happen? Why did this happen? And why won’t officials answer simple questions about it? Bribery doesn’t matter? NEWS - DC contractor guilty of giving bribes still involved in lottery contract - Axios Washington D.C.
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The fallout from Council member Trayon White's arrest is raising questions about where D.C. spends taxpayer dollars.
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The power of data.
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