Coverage of the circus-like US election has appeared in Finnish headlines for some time now, but Tuesday is Election Day and virtually every newspaper is writing about it.
"The US selects the leader of the Western political world," reads an editorial in Iltalehti.
The paper's political reporter Juha Keskinen acknowledged that the race between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump is clearly still too close to call. Keskinen writes that while Clinton is expected to triumph, he called Trump a special candidate and the amount of support he would get to be difficult to predict.
Keskinen wrote that a Trump victory would mean a transition period of uncertainty not only in the US but the whole of the western political world. He writes that US allies are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the election because of how each of the candidates approaches the NATO military alliance - a particularly topical subject in Europe right now.
Keskinen writes that a Clinton victory would mean continuity in current policy, but said changes were also likely. He predicted that if either candidate wins he expects an increase in US protectionism in any case.
But - falling short of suggesting that a Trump victory would mean the collapse of the Western civilisation - he writes that a Clinton victory would mean the West would continue to be leaders on the world stage.
He says that after the drawn-out, bitter political battle of the 2016 US presidential election, people on all sides of the political spectrum most importantly need to reconcile and come together - and to accept the results.
Many media outlets across Finland, including Yle, will be covering the election results live Tuesday night and into Wednesday on television and on the web.
Tampere approves tram plans
Many papers, including Ilta-Sanomat report that after a six-hour session, councillors in the city of Tampere approved a 330 million euro tram system in the city.
Councillors voted 41-25, with one abstention, to approve the project, which will entail laying down some 23.5 kilometres of tram track across city streets. The trams themselves will be delivered by Kajaani-based train manufacturer Transtech.
Construction is slated to start next year and the system is to begin operating in 2021, the paper writes.
MTV: Govt planning e-car incentives?
Citing Finnish news outlet MTV, Iltalehti writes that as part of a plan to reduce carbon emissions, Prime Minister Juha Sipilä's government is working on efforts to boost sales of alternative-fuel vehicles like electric-, hydrogen- and hybrid-powered cars through tax incentives.
The paper writes that government wants to get drivers behind the wheels of more modern, fuel-efficient vehicles, and one way to do this would be through lowering taxes on them.
Finland is currently working on legislation and solutions to meet much lower EU carbon emissions than it currently does. Ministers met on Monday to discuss climate and energy strategies, and the proposal will be ironed out by Parliament at the end of the month, the paper writes.
Moomin mug crime stats
According to the newspaper Keskisuomalainen there were 373 criminal complaints filed to police which were in some way related to the popular mugs - which are nearly ubiquitous in Finnish homes - featuring Tove Jansson's famous cartoon Moomin characters made by Arabia.
Police in central Finland told the paper that most of the police reports dealt with theft of the mugs from shops.
Police told the paper that people who shoplift and sell the stolen Moomin mugs often do so in order to buy drugs.
"The mugs are easily sold for cash," Jyväskylä police chief Sami Salo told the paper.
Less common Muumin mug-related crimes include internet scams, like selling non-existant mugs to unsuspecting collectors of the cartoon-inscribed ceramics.
