A Connecticut Yankee Fan in the Media's Court

Good Thursday evening, Rockville.

It's another gorgeous day out there. But our lucky streak with the weather looks to be coming to an end with a forecast for a wet weekend ahead followed by a string of days with a chance of rain.  offers a few suggestions for making the most of  the sunshine while you still can.

There's plenty of news and notes of goings-on around town as the work week gets ready to wind down, so let's get to it with this "Thursday" edition of "The Rundown":

• Josh Starr was introduced, in person, as the next superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools on Wednesday. Starr, who has led the Stamford (CT) Public Schools since 2005, came to Rockville to
  He also got a major faux pas out of the way early—admitting that he is a New York Yankees fan. Starr drew an analogy between MCPS and the Bronx Bombers as he talked about the challenge of making an already successful organization better. It was an admission that did not go over too well with some media members gathered at the . (To hear the admission and the reaction, go to Rockville Patch's Facebook page.)
  In Starr's defense, he came clean about the pinstripes in his closet about four years earlier than it took Superintendent Jerry Weast, who outed himself during a news conference in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Isabel in 2003. Scroll to the bottom of this vintage "Reporter's Notebook" from the Sept. 26, 2003 edition of The Gazette of Politics and Business to read how that went down.
• Rockville became ground zero on Wednesday for local television news reports of a spike in gas prices around the Washington metropolitan area. Reporters filed stories from gas stations around Rockville, including this report from ABC7 and this one from NBC4. Now attorneys general in DC and Maryland are investigating, ABC7 reported. Have you seen prices spike at your go-to station? Know anywhere with cheap(ish) gas? Let us know in the comments box below.
• Meetings, we've got meetings:
  County school planners will hosts a work session on the ongoing study of the at 7 tonight at the . Cluster co-coordinator Cheryl Moss Herman tells us this is an important one: "This is the meeting where the pros and cons for each proposed option will be documented officially and the preferred option(s) for the new school identified," Herman wrote in an email to Patch.
  The city's Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance Committee meets at 7 p.m. to discuss how the APFO lines up with the draft plan for Rockville Pike redevelopment.
  The city's Human Rights Commission . at the Annex. Tonight's forum will focus on "Defending Religious Freedom; Building Interfaith Bridges."
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