• Let's see in what spirit the three papers sent us off to the voting booth. Daily News: "Dems Expected to Sweep State." Post: "Dems Dimming Celebration; A Bitty Less Giddy As Polls Tighten Up." And Times: "For Democrats, Even a Gain May Feel Like a Failure." Jeez, Adam Nagourney, every silver lining's got a touch of gray, eh? [NYDN; NYP; NYT]
• The opening date for the World Trade Center [Memorial Museum] is getting quietly pushed back from 2009 to [mid-2010]. The brackets are for our own use, as we're probably just going to be copying and pasting this one in the future. A lot. [NYDN]
• The teacher's union reached a deal with the City Hall on a new contract a year before the old one expires, circumventing the tedious ritual wherein one side threatens a strike, the other acts scared, and both incrementally slouch toward compromise. Oh, well, next time. The teachers' salaries may rise over 7 percent under the deal. [NYS]
• But maybe not for this one: Another teacher-student affair, and this time, just to make matters that much more sordid, the school's principal is getting fired for a full-blown cover-up. The assistant principal may get the boot for not cooperating with the investigation. [NYT]
• And the AP reports that more and more New Yorkers are getting their marijuana delivered to the door by courteous, well-organized, corporate-style couriers, "even on Christmas." Now that's quality of life. [AP via Boston Herald]