Monopoly may be coming early to the budding satellite radio industry as XM Radio and Sirius attempt a marriage of convenience (with just a hint of desperation). A joint statement from the companies calls the move an “all-stock merger of equals.” Word on the street is that the companies would likely keep much of their offices both in New York (Sirius) and Washington (XM), but certainly some layoffs and job consolidation would follow. There have…

Good morning, Washington. It’s time for us to let you in on a secret: some of us start work on these roundups the night before they go online. In fact, as we write this we’re watching FOX5’s 10PM storm coverage — and we’re afraid that, at the moment, the weather prognosis does not look good. Judging solely by WTTG’s graphics packages and the number of personnel on their Snow Patrol, we’re facing a bona fide…

Well, DCist has gone and done it now. In an arbitrary post last week discussing the American Political Science Association’s annual meeting in the District, former DCist food connoisseur Kanishka offered $100 to any reader who could catch Cornel West scarfing down a jumbo slice. Safe bet, right? I mean, who would have thought that Cornel West would actually scarf down, of all things, a jumbo slice? Well, one reader managed just that. Above, Cathy…

Sounds Lovely: While WMATA’s metrorail system is clearly more modern than the New York subway, it is still vulnerable to a complete control system meltdown as has been seen in New York this week. If control systems were paralyzed, like they have been on parts of the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan (due to a homeless person starting a fire to stay warm adjacent to a systems relay room), metrorail would have to revert to…

WMATA Chief Executive Richard White said that criticism that has been dished out about the failings of the metrorail system has been warranted and that the agency is reviewing past decisions that, as the Post’s lede said “‘don’t make much sense’ or have ‘misfired badly.'” Apparently there is another scandal under investigation. The contractor that oversees paratrainsit operations may have warped ridership numbers to “cash in on more than $3 million in incentives.” Freight Train…