Archive: June, 2008
Catherine Lucey
Mayor Nutter today appointed an official with the state Department of Public Welfare as the new commissioner of the Department of Human Services.Anne Marie Ambrose currently serves as the director of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Service at the DPW. Before that she spent five years as a deputy commissioner of DHS.
She'll start work June 23.
Catherine Lucey
Bob Warner reports that Art Museum Chief Executive Anne D'Harnoncourt died unexpectedly this morning.Update: We just spoke with Mayor Nutter about the sudden death. He said he was "stunned," calling D'Harnoncourt a "tremendous person, full of life."
"Anne could have worked anywhere she wanted," Nutter said. "We were fortunate to have her."
Catherine Lucey
Obviously the big story today is the federal probe into whether CBS 3 anchor Larry Mendte read former co-worker Alycia Lane's private emails.But in other news:
The new schools CEO starts today.
And the city was hit with four weekend killings.
Up today: Mayor Nutter will make an announcement about the Department of Human Services.
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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