Lats to go

Latvia will adopt the euro from the beginning of next year, becoming the 18th member of a currency union that just a year ago risked disintegration due to the credit crisis. European Union finance ministers gave the ex-Soviet state on the Baltic Sea the green light Tuesday to swap its currency - the lats - for euros starting on Jan. 1, following recommendations from EU officials and the European Central Bank. That's good news, but even better is that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will appear in public for the first time since his arrest in the Boston bombings. And I hope that that bellend is given the chair.