Friday's DN: A gun rumor at the City Controller's Office prompts questions from police
It's Friday, so its Clout column time. This week, City Controller Alan Butkovitz asks the Philadelphia Police Department to check out a gun rumor about a former employee who has posted a web site critical of his work. Also, USA Today calls Gov. Corbett "Gov. Barney Fife" for his federal lawsuit to overturn the $60 million Penn State fine issued by the NCAA.
Friday's DN: A gun rumor at the City Controller's Office prompts questions from police
Chris Brennan
It's Friday, so its Clout column time. This week, City Controller Alan Butkovitz asks the Philadelphia Police Department to check out a gun rumor about a former employee who has posted a web site critical of his work. Also, USA Today calls Gov. Corbett "Gov. Barney Fife" for his federal lawsuit to overturn the $60 million Penn State fine issued by the NCAA.
Former Gov. Ed Rendell calls on local members of the U.S. Congress to state their positions on gun control measures as he says the nation "can't forget and go back to business as usual in which the NRA and the powerful gun lobby control Congress.
Federal prosecutors start to wrap up their case against reputed local mob boss Joseph Ligambi and six others, saying the Mafia is still a menace.
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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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