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Tuesday's DN: Managing Director Takes A Low-Key Approach

City Managing Director Camille Barnett doesn't have a hazmat suit.  We take a look at how Barnett takes a different approach to her job than previous managing directors.

Here's more on Chris Wright, City Councilman Jack Kelly's former chief of staff, being sentenced to four years in federal prison for his February conviction on corruption charges, along with two political supporters of his boss.

Local NAACP head J. Whyatt Mondesire, who has sparred many times with District Attorney Lynne Abraham in the past, complains about a grand jury's decision to not indict police officers videotaped beating three men suspected -- but later cleared -- of being involved in a shooting.

And the city's budget is still being batted around Harrisburg like a shuttlecock in a political badminton game.  Democrats say Republicans are risking the lives of cops.  Republicans say the Democrats moved too slow on the issue.  But the whole thing could still be wrapped up by an Aug. 31 deadline for the city to start laying off 3,000 employees.