Good morning, Washington. It’s Friday, and the city is still reacting to yesterday afternoon’s announcement about how our new taxi meters are going to work. We already told you about the $4 flag drop, which many people are already saying is too high, and the fact that taxi roof lights will go on and off automatically to indicate whether a cab has a passenger, which everyone seems to agree is long overdue. One more thing…

Just when we has stopped thinking about Judge Roy Pearson and his humiliating $54 million pants law suit for a second, the Examiner steps forward to ask the most important question of all: Why on Earth is Pearson still collecting a paycheck? At the beginning of August, the panel that will ultimately decide Pearson’s fate sent the beleaguered judge a letter letting him know his job was in jeopardy, but stopped short of actually firing…

Over at the Examiner, Scott McCabe points us to the rage of L’Enfant Cafe co-owner Christopher Lynch, who was reportedly arrested and jailed for several hours last week after being caught riding an unregistered scooter. After hearing similar stories from a friend and a pizza delivery driver who works nearby, McCabe posted a rant on the door to his restaurant, decrying the mixed up priorities of the MPD, who in his view are aggressively targeting…