Metro Employee Flips Off Passenger, TV Reporter Confronts Her – WUSA9′s always interesting investigative reporter Russ Ptacek took on the story of a Metro employee at the Medical Center Station raising her middle finger at an irate passenger. The report documents a number of complaints about Metrorail and Metrobus workers flipping customers the bird. Ptacek storms into Medical Center Station and confronts the employee, who denies comment. The passenger who took a phone photo of the middle finger (he doesn’t want his last name used in the story) admits that he lost his temper after his train skipped the Bethesda Station. [WUSA9]

MCPS Officials Wonder About Next Year’s Budget – By tapping into one-time reserve funds to avoid going over the Maintenance of Effort minimum for the FY15 MCPS budget request, the Montgomery County Council could face a funding challenge next year. Board of Education member Rebecca Smondrowski said “the continued use of one-time funding sources makes what was already going to be a large fiscal gap for next year even larger.” MCPS Superintendent Joshua Starr, in a message to PTA members and other supporters, said he supported the one-time funding approach because “it meets our immediate needs.” But Starr also said he anticipates needing at least $135 million in additional funding for FY16 to replace the one-time sources in the FY15 budget. [Washington Post] [MCPS]

Ledecky Commits To Stanford – Olympic and world champion swimmer Katie Ledecky, a junior at Stone Ridge School, said on Thursday that she’s verbally accepted a scholarship offer to swim at Stanford. [The Gazette]

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