Morning Brief: September 18th
Automobile company General Motors has agrees to pay 900 million dollars as part of a Justice Department investigation into faulty ignition-switches, which are to blame for more than 120 deaths. Federal prosecutors charged the company with “engaging in a scheme to conceal a deadly safety defect.” GM has plead not guilty.
Need To Know
900 Million Penalty for General Motors [NY Times]
Croatia Closes Border Crossing with Serbia [BBC]
Abortion Bill Advances [NY Times]
Taxi Drivers Call on Cuomo to Stop Uber Expansion [NY Daily News]
Fiorina Steals Spotlot in GOP Debate [Fox News]
Weather
Today is sunny with a high of 87. Clear skies in the evening with a low of 67 [Full Forecast]
Sports
YESTERDAY
No local baseball
TODAY
Mets and Yankees face off at 7:10 in Queens
On the Stage
Robert Plant And The Sensational Space Shifters (with The Sonics) @ the Manhattan Center’s
Hammerstein Ballroom
The Doobie Brothers (with Chris Berardo And The DesBerardos) @ the Capitol Theatre
Rancid (with H2O and The Interrupters) @ Terminal 5
Zappa Plays Zappa @ the Stone Pony
Jeff Daniels @ the Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne
Leftover Salmon @ Brooklyn Bowl
The Jon Herington Band (with Cassidy of Cassidy And The Music (formerly of Antigone Rising) @ Mexicali Live
Popa Chubby @ the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts
Of Montreal (with Surface To Air Missive) @ the Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Fratellis with Grizfolk and Mark Lesseraux @ Webster Hall in The Grand Ballroom
Holly Miranda (with Gracie And Rachel) @ Mercury Lounge
Michael McDermott @ Rockwood Music Hall
Algiers (with Dark Blue) @ Mercury Lounge
Alabama @ the Beacon Theatre
Day In History
On this day in 1793 the capitol cornerstone was laid.
