Because we simply can’t get enough of salary talk, today the Post tells us that Metro’s presumptive new head honcho, John B. Catoe Jr., will be taking in $300,000 a year, not to mention a $60,000 living allowance, a company car, and all the free Metro rides he can take. While it seems a little on the steep side for a public servant working for an agency notorious for its mismanagement of public funds, Catoe…

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…