Good morning, D.C. With much of the hot political action this week taking place at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, it’s our job to pull your focus away from trivial issues the mainstream media seem obsessed with, like global climate change, and bring it back down to what’s really important at the local level, like complaining about how gasoline could be about to get really, really expensive in Maryland. What’s that you say? The two issues are somehow related? You don’t say.
Rooftop Additions Giving People Aneurysms: The front page of the Washington Post is devoted to how some people don’t like rooftop additions that are popping up on rowhouses in the city. They don’t line up with the other rowhouses, you see, and this makes them eyesores.
Metro Could Get Flatscreen Panels for Ads: We’ve known for some time that Metro General Manager John Catoe has been considering adding more advertising space to stations and trains, but this morning he told WTOP that he’d like to add flat screen panels to stations to display TV-style ads. In addition to the ads, Catoe says he’d be able to offer customers weather and news information, as well as service updates. The Riders Advisory Council is considering asking for a limit to the number of ads that could be shown on such screens.
Briefly Noted: Freshman charged with shootings at Delaware State … Special Ed hearings to come in D.C. Council … Alexandria must pay $2 million to dredge marina … Woman shot at Adams Morgan Safeway.
This Day in DCist: In 2006 we were tracking the E. coli outbreak in spinach in Maryland and reviewing The Science of Sleep.
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