1. Some embarrassing news—because everyone, from the state Senate Democrats to all the Republicans in Olympia, kept warning the House liberals and the governor (who ultimately won this year's budget battle) that their budget might not work out so great if the feds didn't come through with $480 million in Medicaid money. Well...

Jim Camden has the sobering scoop over at the Spin Control, the Spokesman-Review's politics blog: Gregoire is now nervous that the fed money might fall through, and she might have to call another special session.



2. SeattlePI.com's Strange Bedfellows 's Scott Gutierrez posted about Seattle City Council Member Sally Bagshaw's concern that there are no women on the Seattle Police Chief shortlist.

I had a knee-jerk reaction to link to a similar story by Erica—she was asking the same question a couple of weeks ago. But then I remembered that Josh, ever the "sexist ogre," forbade her from writing about it because it was "trite."

3. And over at the ever-up-to-date Seattle Times Politics Northwest blog, today's top post is still their report from yesterday on the news that Craig Pridemore is dropping out of the race for U.S Rep. Brian Baird's open seat.