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.
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LETTER: Bombshell news in medical marijuana this week
When I say [Sanjay] Gupta came out strongly, I mean he sounds like one of us. He wrote: “We have been terribly and systematically misled [about marijuana] for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my role in that.”
Is it economically feasible for the Brunswick to prosper downtown?
“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.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta,of CNN, apologizes for past anti-medical marijuana views
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.”
Patronage’s historic role in U.S. and PA politics: a primer
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.
At what point does praise become exploitation?
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.
Law to punish drug ‘kingpins’ costs innocent people their homes
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…
20 Cities That May Face Bankruptcy After Detroit
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…
Where angels fear to tread: Hotel Brunswick to have new tenant
“‘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.”
Poor Children Show a Decline in Obesity Rate
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)…
IS RUSSIA AN AMERICAN COLONY?
On July 18 Russia’s leading opposition figure, lawyer and blogger, candidate for the position of Mayor of Moscow, Alexei Navalny was sentenced to five years. The court in Kirov city found him guilty of misappropriating about $500,000 in a lumber deal when he was an adviser to the region’s governor.
Theft Ring Targeting Scooters, Motorcycles Philadelphia, South Jersey
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.
A Mogul Gets a Landmark in the Capital
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…
Pa. liquor board reports record $128M in profits
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…