Well, D.C. How’s your Emergency Tuesday shaping up so far? It looks like there’s some more exciting Emergency Legislation on the table for the D.C. City Council this morning. Apart from the pay raises we mentioned yesterday, the council’s agenda for the day includes a total of, yes really, 40 emergency bills, including another that would provide for exemptions to the liquor license law that currently prohibits anyone from selling liquor within 400 feet of schools. With 39 other exciting Emergency Tuesday bills, there can only be more fun in store for us at the end of the day. Don’t change that channel.

Metro Picks District Native to Head WMATA: The Post is reporting that John B. Catoe Jr., deputy chief executive of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has been chosen to lead WMATA. The position is not final, as the contract is still being negotiated. Catoe is a D.C. native, the son of a taxi driver who grew up in Northeast and Southeast public housing complexes and graduated from Spingarn Senior High School. Considering the Post mentions that L.A. is the third-largest public transportation system in the U.S., one might think that such experience makes him a good fit for running WMATA. Then again, if one had ever actually tried to use the L.A. County MTA, one might have some serious reservations. DCist will have more on this news as details are released.

The Stadium Deal That Keeps Giving: The bad news is that developer Herbert Miller has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the District over the termination of his development agreement for a mixed-use development in the new stadium area in Southeast. Miller is now trying to block anything else from being developed there until he can resume his own plans. The good news (maybe?) is that the D.C. City Council may today approve a parking plan for the new baseball stadium that would include two free-standing garages just north of the ballpark.

Briefly Noted: Chesapeake Bay isn’t in such great shape … Taneytown passes English-only law … In Fairfax County, daughter comes home to find mother dead … Boy dies after being hit by van.

This Day in DCist: Way back when, it was all about baseball. In 2004, we mentioned how the new stadium would probably cost a lot more than estimates. In 2005, we talked about the never-ending woes of the Nats.

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