1. Helping give the health care reform bill the 60 votes it needed to stay in play, Washington state's Democratic Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell both voted 'Yea' on Saturday to send the legislation to the senate floor for debate.

The bill includes four Cantwell amendments: Giving state programs like Washington's Basic Health Plan the power to negotiate directly with insurance companies; creating a program to reward doctors for quality of service rather than quanity of service; providing incentives for medical students to become primary care physicians; and (a corporate accountability Cantwell amendment we've noted before) regulating pharmaceutical benefit management companies—the third party, middleman companies between health care providers and drug companies.

2. Mayor-Elect Mike McGinn held his victory party in Southeast Seattle on Friday night. Check out Josh's report on the anti-establishment shindig here.

3. Last week, we reported that the state is facing a $2.6 billion deficit.

Over the weekend, the left leaning Washington Budget & Policy Center put out a must-watch slide show on what the numbers mean and what they think the state should do.



4. Team Mallahan and Team McGinn face off one more time.

Forget the 50,000-foot analysis from all the pundits: We've rounded up top guns from both campaigns to  explain their strategies, do some Monday-morning quarterbacking on themselves and each other, critique each other's TV ads, and fill you in on how they were reading, playing, and trying to outsmart one another. (There'll be time for your questions as well.)

Seattle Channel's CR Douglas moderates.

Del Rey. 2332 1st Ave. in Belltown. Doors open at 5pm. Show starts at 6pm. Free. Cash bar.