Deb Geisler provides the latest proof that the Metro is not on speaking terms with English grammar.

Another day, another enjoyable Metro story.

Having to ride the Mata every day probably doesn't help.

In this week's installment of Metro Moments with Menino, a reader from Davis Square says a cabbie refused him a ride home. When he called the hotline to report it, it was down. Menino responds with "thanks for complaining. We 'looked into it' and you're wrong, but if you're right, we're sorry" routine:

Adam Reilly reports Boston Metro now needs an editor, what with Saul Williams suddenly no longer employed there (unclear if he left of his own volition). On the negative side, Reilly explains, the paper also doesn't have a publisher, its Swedish uberlords are trying to unload it and its New York Times underlords recently wrote down a big part of their investment.

Look, we know the Metro is mostly owned by Swedes, but we didn't realize it was actually copy-edited in Stockholm:

The story is fixed online.

Via More Cowbell.

That's what Boston Metro reports. Dan Kennedy is skeptical, wondering if maybe the report has something to do with the way the Globe screwed up a story about layoffs at its alleged sister paper (also click on that last link for some fun snark about BostonNow).

The zillionaire who owns a chain of free daily papers with a Boston Web site now says he has no plans to buy the up-for-sale U.S. Metro papers and shut them down and replace them with his own Examiners.

Via Adam Reilly.

Adam Reilly has the scoop: The Swedes who mostly own the paper are considering selling their U.S. papers to the Examiner group, who would shut Metro and replace it with their own Boston Examiner - which already has a Web site (just not at bostonexaminer.com, which is owned by somebody else). No word on what the folks down in Times Square would do about the 49% of the paper they own.

BostonNow is the Daily Show of Boston newspapers: It's put to bed too early in the day to get actual election results, so they just make stuff up. Or, as Jason Feifer remarks on today's cover story: Dewey defeats Clinton:

Somehow, Boston Metro was able to get the real story in print.

Adam Reilly looks up the coverage by Boston's dailies (all four of 'em) and concludes you'd need to go elsewhere for coverage of today's city-council preliminaries in Allston/Brighton and Roxbury and state-rep race in East Boston.

He also finds it curious that neither paper is covering this week's trial of a man accused of killing two people in an Allston/Brighton apartment last January.

For election info:

East Boston: Hubster candidate interviews.
Allston/Brighton: Brighton Centered | Allston Brighton Community Blog
Roxbury: Um, anybody know?