I’ll be on TBD’s NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt starting at 10 to discuss the news that the WMATA Board has decided to keep Richard Sarles on as GM/CEO.

Jim Dinegar from the Greater Washington Board of Trade, and Post reporter Ann Scott Tyson, are also participating. You can watch the segment live here.

Maryland Governor O’Malley spilled the beans Friday. WMATA responded by putting out a tight-lipped odd press release. We’ve pointed out before how funny it is that the WMATA press email list just announces the title of each press release and requires people to click to read it; that’s even weirder when the title itself has no information:

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.