Verizon and other broadband providers have said they have no intention of blocking Internet traffic. But their commitment to an open Internet could change in the future. Ideally, Congress would pass a law prohibiting broadband companies from discriminating or blocking content, but that is unlikely to happen given industry opposition. That’s why it’s important for the commission to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service…

The city and state have committed $40 million in grants to the project, officials said. At 59 stories, the new tower will have about 1.5 million square feet of rentable space…

“When you get the package every morning, it puts steel in your spine,” said David Plouffe, the president’s longtime adviser. “There are people out there every day who are plotting. The notion that we would put down a tool that would protect people here in America is hard to fathom.” …

The four cardinals were removed just 11 months into their five-year terms as commissioners, which began under former Pope Benedict, who resigned last February…

WILKES-BARRE TIMES LEADER: State senators Daylin Leach and Mike Folmer introduced a bill Tuesday that would legalize cannabis for medical purposes under a physician’s direction.

The problem, he says, was that military officials didn’t want to spend money on [WRAPs]. “They kept thinking the war was always going to end just around the corner, that the war was going to be short,” he said. “That was the original position going in, and even by 2007 they were still assuming that the war was winding down, and so they didn’t want to spend a lot of money on something that wouldn’t be needed for very long and would be surplus at the end of the war…

“There’s a compelling, beguiling showbiz mythology of the modern big city – the energy and the abundance, the proximity to culture and power, the streets that just might be paved with gold. We’ve seen it and we’ve loved it, on stage and on screen.

“We enter this year incredibly well-positioned to win the Democratic primary in 2014,” Nevins said. “We had a remarkably strong fundraising effort last year — and in considerably less time than any other candidate.” …

PHILLY.COM / AP: After another tumultuous year on the job, frustrated workers at Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers vowed Monday to bid against feuding owners if the company again goes on the auction block.

If she is viewed as holding it over him during his re-election bid or (if she finds anything) timing release for maximum impact on his re-election, she’s seen as playing politics and any findings become suspect…

After all, the ironclad nature of Christie’s denial — his assertion that he knew nothing about it — will likely not stand up. A plot like this is not hatched among subordinates with the chief left in total ignorance. At the bottom of the pile of emails that will emerge may be one in which Christie emulates the famous request of King Henry II of England, who asked his aides about Thomas Becket: “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”

The Islamic Republic will open its nuclear program to daily inspection by international experts, starting the clock on the six-month deadline for a final nuclear agreement. In exchange, Iran will get a relaxation of the financial sanctions that have been crippling its economy.

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: The price of gas jumped about nine cents per gallon in the first week of 2014, prompting several analysts to conclude that the state’s newly increased wholesale gas tax trickled down to consumers…