At various points this morning, the Green, Red and Blue lines all had problems due to dead trains (at Kenmore, Park and Bowdoin, respectively). No doubt feeling left out, the Orange Line this afternoon developed switch problems.

It was not, however, a rare perfect quadfecta - those only happen when all four lines shut down simultaneously.

CommonWealth details the suburban media chain's latest financial filings, which warn of possible bankruptcy but reassure us that should that happen, the top two executives - one of them our own Kirk Davis - will get nice severance packages.

Meanwhile, the list of local editors who have left or are soon to leave includes Managing Editor Kat Powers, Gail Spector at the Newton Tab and Jillian Fennimore at the Somerville Journal. That's in addition to Greg Reibman, streamlined out of his job as local publisher last November.

The Toronto Star includes the following nugget in a review of a book about London by a Canadian who found himself living there:

For Torontonians, the idea of trying to define what, exactly, gives a world class city its caché and how we can make Toronto one is a sacred pastime, with the city always coming up short.