>> The commission charged with deciding whether to fire Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson has voted to formally notify Pearson that he may not be reappointed to the bench. Can’t they just notify him he’s actually fired already? [WaPo]

>> Metro trains carried more passengers in July than in any other month in the transit agency’s 31-year history. [Examiner]

>> Aaaaand a coalition of the shrill against a hypothetical D.C. congestion tax is born. [WTOP]

>> Two beaches around the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland are among the six most polluted beaches in the country. [WaPo]

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