FIVE THINGS: No Ticket Settling or X-Mas Tree Fee

1. This is unsettling: The Dept. of Finance has decided not to allow lower fines for those who settle their parking ticket disputes with the city without going to court, reports the Post.

2. Queens Politics laments a totally one-sided win for six Supreme Court Justices in Queens. All Democrats swept the vote, he writes.

3. On a separate fine issue, Sen. Daniel Squadron's office says he'll consider writing a cap on the fine for violators of the new piece of parking legislation . Here's where you , if you've got one.

4. Here's a about Flushing's old RKO Keith Theater by our own history buff Pat Conti, with an original photo. I didn't know theaters could look like that.

5. That additional 15 cent fee that was to be imposed on each Christmas tree buy has been dumped by the Dept. of Agriculture, because "Conservatives had painted the fee as a tax," said the Daily News.