This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

He failed in his quest to become a U.S. senator, but sometime-Pennsylvanian and nine-time Daytime Emmy Award winner Dr. Mehmet Oz is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Oz’s political resurrection even received the conditional blessing of his erstwhile rival, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, who told X readers he would consider “voting for the dude.”

A trio of former elected officials convicted on corruption charges – Willie Singletary, Leslie Acosta and Movita Johnson-Harrell – have landed new City of Philadelphia jobs, where they will once again be compensated using taxpayer dollars. Singletary and Acosta both landed positions in the Parker administration, while Johnson-Harrell is now working under Sheriff Rochelle Bilal.

The state Supreme Court once again rejected an attempt by Philadelphia officials to overturn a long-standing state provision that prevents the city from enacting its own gun laws. The Democratic-majority court, in a unanimous decision, said the city’s arguments had fallen “woefully short” — and close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades.

Democrats in Bucks County felt the heat after the Democratic-led county commissioners voted to count deficient mail ballots in violation of a Supreme Court decision. Per The Philadelphia Inquirer, Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia said of the court’s precedent: “People violate laws any time they want” – a comment she later said was misinterpreted. The commissioners even drew a rebuke from Gov. Josh Shapiro, who said any insinuation that laws can be ignored is “irresponsible.”

Officials say they received a call about Gerard Dorundo, who allegedly showed up “extremely agitated” to his former attorney’s office in Adamsburg, yelling profanities and banging on doors and windows. Dorundo then repeatedly called Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli on her personal cell phone – 13 times within nine minutes. He’s been charged with harassment and disorderly conduct.

After years of high-profile initiatives under the leadership of then-President John Fry, Drexel University this week laid off 60 employees – 1.4% of its workforce – in the face of what it calls a “structural imbalance.” That imbalance is a first-year enrollment drop that’s roughly 500 students shy of the university’s goal, presenting a challenge for interim President Denis O'Brien, as well as for Drexel’s next long-term leader.