We have time for a quick news roundup this evening

* A Newark police officer chased down a suspect on horseback and made the collar. Go Dudley Do-Right go!

* The Port Authority CAN go ahead and raise tolls on bridges and tunnels in December after all.

* A Manhattan Federal Judge said a woman in North Bergen can KEEP a stolen 7.4 carat diamond, yowser.

* Eli Manning told Tiki Barber to shut his talk hole about Giants coach Tom Coughlin.

* Paul Mulshine has a great article on the Orwellian world of driving in New Jersey.

* And finally, since the weed is legal in Washington state why not have a YouTube video of three grandmas toking up for the first time.

Hey, Johnny said stupid things when he first got here too

When Johnny was new around these parts he no doubt said some pretty stupid things in this here space. Didn't understand certain players around town, how things actually worked and got done (criminality was the answer) and probably made some pretty stupid comments. NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton made such a comment yesterday. In a City Council hearing about the NYPD's budget Bratton said he thinks that to decriminalize small amount of marijuana would be a mistake of epic proportions. Trouble is (set the Wayback Machine) since the 1970's small amounts of marijuana out of sight in NYC have already been decriminalized.

Don't worry people, we're sure it was a noob mistake and besides, he's only the police commissioner, how much power can he have?