Morning Brief: September 4

Remember the New York City government’s battle with Uber earlier this summer over capping Uber’s rapid expansion? Well there’s since been a cease-fire, and now it seems an old adage is holding true: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. The City of New York has just held its first meeting of its new Technology Advisory Group. Its goal? To figure out a way to reorganize the city’s transport regulations around the new reality of travel: services like Uber. It’s early to say what will happen for sure, but New York’s yellow cabs should definitely get ready for some changes. 

NEED TO KNOW

Migrant Chaos Mounts While Divided Europe Stumbles for Response [New York Times]

Kentucky Clerk Ordered to Jail for Refusing to Issue Gay Marriage License [Washington Post]

Biden: 2016 Bid Hinges on Having 'Emotional Energy' to Run [US News & World Report]

Cuomo Sets Common Core Review [Wall Street Journal]

Man, 19, Dies in Wall Collapse at Brooklyn Construction Site [NBC]

WEATHER
Partly cloudy and 82 degrees [Full Forecast]

SPORTS

Tonight
The Yankees face the Rays at 7:05
The Mets take on the Marlins at 7:10

ON STAGE TONIGHT

Counting Crows with Citizen Cope and Hollis Brown @ the Paramount

The Anders Osborne Acoustic Band @ City Winery

John Eddie And His Dirty Old Band (with Adams Wilson, Joshua VanNess, Stella Mrowicki and Not Dead Yet) @ the Wonder Bar

TODAY IN HISTORY

Today in 1882, Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.