News that the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority has signed the contract to build the Tysons Corner segment of the Silver Line is a big deal, and is justifiably dominating the local cycle of planning news. But if readers take a glance over to the left a bit and check out BeyondDC’s newsfeed, they might wonder where the story went.

It’s been a busy day. Normally we wouldn’t do this, but with so many stories hitting the papers at the same time, BeyondDC thought we’d recap a little here on the home page. In addition to the aforementioned Metro contract, a global warming report tells us Virginia could be a lot smaller a century from now, Maryland Governor O’Malley provided another subsidy for drivers but made up for it by reviving the Maryland Office of Smart Growth, developers and residents of White Flint came together for a Ballston-like master plan, McLean developers are trying to turn that town’s central collection of strip malls into a real town center, and last but not least, a 200-foot-tall tower was approved in downtown Silver Spring.

And it’s barely after noon.