Wednesday, October 6th. There’s still baseball happening.

Two endorsements: Markey for Wu and Trump for Diehl. The former may have some effect but the latter is just a curiosity in these parts.

The MBTA safety team has doubled in size, according to General Manager Steve Poftak, and the agency is spending three times what it had in previous years on capital projects. And yet safety issues are still regularly occurring and projects are lagging. So what’s the solution?

Following the lead of the Boston Public Library, the New York Public Library is eliminating all late fees. Bad news for Bookman.

The trillion-dollar coin is still a possibility. Fascinating. It would be minted in West Point and flown by helicopter to New York, where it would be deposited in the Federal Reserve Bank… assuming the guy carrying it doesn’t have any holes in his pockets.

And I didn’t know Muhammed Ali was an artist outside of the ring. He was.