The FCC voted 2-1 during an emotional meeting to cap interstate phone rates at 21 cents a minute for debit or prepaid calls and 25 cents a minute for collect calls. Companies wanting to set higher rates would have to file a request for a waiver and could not charge more until that waiver was granted.

“The Brunswick need not compete directly with the Penn Square Partners’ Marriott, which aspires to be a higher-class facility. Downtown Lancaster as a whole, and specifically the taxpayer-owned convention center, could greatly benefit from lodging within easy walking distance that is of reasonably good quality yet is significantly less expensive than the pricey Marriott.

CNN: ….I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a schedule 1 substance because of sound scientific proof. Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have “no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse.”

To understand what’s going on at the Pennsylvania turnpike today, in 2013, you have to understand the role patronage and political corruption has played in Pennsylvania government going back over centuries.

A young man from the Lancaster area quick wittedly and courageously pursued on his bicycle a car that contained a young girl allegedly kidnapped by a sexual deviant. As an apparent result, the driver discharged the child onto the sidewalk and drove on.

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: When Rochelle Bing bought her modest row home on a tattered block in North Philadelphia 10 years ago, she saw it as an investment in the future for her extended family — especially for her 18 grandchildren…

5. Harrisburg, Pa.- Harrisburg is at least $345 million in debt, thanks largely to municipal bonds it guaranteed in order to finance upgrades to its problematic waste-to-energy trash incinerator…

“‘We’re just rolling up our sleeves,’ said real estate developer John Meeder, who announced Monday that he and partners have completed an agreement to take over operations of the nine-story hotel.”

Children from poor families have had some of the nation’s highest rates of obesity. One in eight preschoolers in the United States is obese. Among low-income children, it is one in seven. The rate is much higher for blacks (one in five) and for Hispanics (one in six)…

What you see in the surveillance video is quite incredible. Once the thieves spot their scooter of choice, it takes one suspect just about five seconds to cut the chain. Then when his accomplice backs up their van, another twenty seconds that’s all it takes for the two suspects to scoop up the scooter and place it in their van.

Nonetheless, [Jeffrey P. Bezos] will now have a microphone as powerful as anyone in Washington and outside the West Wing. Keeping with a lot of his tech industry peers, he brings with him a sort of libertarian bent, having supported gay marriage in the state of Washington and fought higher income taxes on wealthy people…

The positive figures were released in the aftermath of a major but so far unsuccessful effort by Gov. Tom Corbett and fellow Republicans who control the Legislature to privatize liquor and wine sales that the state has controlled since 1933…