Following comments made by Chancellor of Justice Tuomas Pöysti on Tuesday, Wednesday's Helsingin Sanomat asks what's likely to happen to the municipal elections scheduled for 18 April.
Pöysti told news agency STT that he could see a case for postponing the elections on health and safety grounds, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The national broadsheet put the question to Arto Jääskeläinen, director of electoral administration at the Ministry of Justice.
"The question of when the elections would be held if they were to be postponed has not yet been discussed," Jääskeläinen told HS.
"In my own view, if a delay were to happen, they should be pushed back some six months," he continued.
The issue also came up at a children's election panel organised by Helsingin Sanomat on Tuesday evening. According to the paper, the leaders of all the political parties were asked to raise their hands if they supported postponing the municipal elections.
No one raised their hand, HS reports.
Who should be vaccinated next?
Wednesday's Ilta-Sanomat reports on which jobs have seen the highest proportion of coronavirus infections.
Top of the list are decorators and cleaners, the paper reports, followed by professional drivers, athletes and kitchen workers.
With attention turning to the roughly three million people in non-priority groups awaiting vaccination against the virus, the paper quotes Professor of Economics Topi Miettinen, who says, "it is worth taking into account background factors such as occupation and gender" when deciding who to vaccinate first.
"A bus driver has a lot of contacts, so the risk of infection and of being infected could be higher," Miettinen told the paper.
Workers from foreign backgrounds are disproportionately represented in many higher-risk jobs, IS notes. So could early vaccination for people with foreign backgrounds be a good idea?
"Possibly. The most important thing to base recommendations on is research and evidence," Professor of Health Economics Mika Kortelainen told the paper.
Bright lights, Tamhattan
Plans to redefine Tampere's skyline are the focus of a story in local daily Aamulehti, as the city finalises plans for three new towers, between 20 and 32 storeys high, to be built around its railway station.
The 32-storey tower would rise to almost the height of Finland's tallest building, the "Lighthouse" tower in Helsinki's Kalasatama district, the paper writes.
In 2020 the Kalasatama tower made headlines when police made arrests following allegations that objects including plates, a frying pan and cans of alcohol were thrown from its summit.
Matti Höyssä, chair of the Tampere's development committee, acknowledged that the plans for the development zone hadn't pleased everyone, telling Aamulehti, "the area has been set out rather boldly, and people's interpretations of the plans have caused a little trouble. There has been some controversy over that."
For Höyssä, the plans for a cluster of towers in the centre of Tampere have been a long time coming, Aamulehti writes, after a project dubbed "Tamhattan" was scuppered by opposition by the city's Green councillors in the 1990s.
"Now we're back to building high-rise. The world has moved on and now all the parties are behind the idea," Höyssä said.
