• PA State Rep. Mark Cohen of Philadelphia has apparently been engaged in one of those most hated activities: billing taxpayers for frivolous expenses. He's been spent state money on an enormous numbers of books, and three society weekends in New York.
• The state Agriculture Department's restaurant inspection website, which used to just tell you whether each restaurant had passed inspection or not, now also provides complete inspection reports on all eateries. Check it out here.
• The Inquirer has an interesting article about SEPTA's countinghouse, a facility in a secret location in Philadelphia where all the fare money (nearly $2.5 million a week) comes to be sorted and processed. What are they doing with all that money, exactly? Because they sure aren't spending it on making the system any better!
• Five more traffic-light cameras (meant to snap photos of folks running red lights) have been activated at five more dangerous intersections along Roosevelt Boulevard, which means there are now eight cameras up and running along the road.
• The closing arguments happened yesterday in the trial of Jeffrey Marsalis, the guy accused of drugging and raping seven women from 2003 to 2005. Marsalis did not testify on his own behalf, and his defense lasted less than 8 minutes. Whether he's guilty of the actual drugging and raping we can't say, but there doesn't seem to be any argument about the fact that he at the very least lied to the women about himself, falsely claiming to be a doctor or an astronaut in his attempts to get in their pants, and that is pretty disgusting and pathetic.

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