Election news:
▪  In Sunday's News Tribune -- Cantwell maintains 16-point lead over McGavick in polls
▪  Today from AP -- Democratic win would strengthen state's clout in Washington D.C.
▪  In Saturday's Seattle P-I -- Reichert once bragged that he ratted out bus driver, got her fired 
▪  In today's News Tribune -- I-933 might feel warm and fuzzy, but it would leave us all in the cold (Voelpel column) -- I can’t vote for the Full Employment Act for Lawyers just because it exudes warm fuzzies -- because that’s all Initiative 933 has going for it.
▪  In the PS Business Journal -- Encouraging voters to be "pro-business" voters -- The U.S. Chamber's multimillion-dollar Vote For Business program, the Business-Industry PAC's Prosperity Project and the NFIB's political operations all aim to get business owners to get their employees registered to vote and then convince them to vote for their endorsed candidates.
▪  In today's Seattle P-I -- Automated "telemarket" calls aim to sell voters on GOP 
▪  In the PS Business Journal -- Business groups invest heavily in judicial races
▪  In today's LA Times -- Lower pump prices fuel conspiracy theories at pump -- Many Americans think the recent drop is tied to the Bush administration and GOP election hopes.

Mission Accomplished?:
▪  In today's NY Times -- Bush trumpets Saddam verdict to rally support -- Bush seizes on the conviction of Saddam Hussein as a milestone in Iraq, seeking to rally Republican voters as some polls suggested that his party might be making gains in the final hours of the campaign.
▪  Update -- Of the 2,816 U.S. troops that have been killed in Iraq so far, 2,367 of them have died since Saddam Hussein was captured. Given that many of the U.S. soldiers training Iraq security forces now say that our presence there may last DECADES, how many more will die after Saddam is hanged?  P.S. More than five years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still at large.
▪  The WSLC's affiliated unions have called for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. 

Local news:
▪  In today's Bellingham Herald -- Public hearing TODAY on Bellingham's proposed big-box ban
▪  Today from AP -- Boeing is among 30 aviation companies helping to design silent aircraft
▪  In today's Everett Herald -- Everett Massacre 90 years later -- A historian takes a new look at the 1916 conflict that left five labor activists and two deputies dead on the Everett waterfront.

National news:
▪  In today's NY Times -- As drug prices climb, Democrats find fault with Medicare plan -- For big drug companies, the new Medicare prescription benefit is proving to be a financial windfall larger than even the most optimistic Wall Street analysts had predicted. But those gains may come back to haunt drug makers if Democrats take control of Congress this week.
▪  In today's NY Times -- Once safe, public pensions are now facing cuts
▪  Today from AP -- Northwest Airlines may recall hundreds of furloughed pilots