Thursday's DN: We are all Big Bird
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Thursday's DN: We are all Big Bird
David Gambacorta
John Baer says Mitt Romney came across as more energetic and engaged during last night's presidential debate.
Will Bunch says Romney and President Obama offered long, rambling speeches, while voters wanted simple and direct explanations about their positions.
A Port Richmond high school student was told to leave her class because she wore a "Romney/Ryan" t-shirt.
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey fired a cop who punched a woman at the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Meanwhile, two more cops are the subject of Internal Affairs investigations.
City Council got an earful about ATVs at a hearing on Wednesday.
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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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