1) White House rock. What’s on the presidential iPod.

2) The Cookie Monster announces he’s going on a diet diet. I’m not kidding.

3) Narcotics cops storm Brooklyn home in no-knock, pre-dawn raid. No drugs. No guns. Only a deaf woman with asthma, and her two kids. Wrong apartment. Sorry.

4) The Scientist publishes a balanced, thorough series of stories on the opioid controversy.

5) In stadium news, it looks like the Colts new home will be funded by a restaurant tax on Marion County and the seven counties surrounding it (though the surrounding counties will get no representation on the planning board that will oversee the project). That comes on top of a 1% food tax for the Colts’ current home, the RCA Dome, that was promised to be temporary, but never went away. Meanwhile, in D.C., the publicly-funded baseball stadium has already jumped to $46 million more than the original estimate, voted on and barely approved by the city council.

I think citizens of both cities should start a movement toward calling each structure “Taxpayer Stadium.”

6) Ha!

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