Election day, folks! Start chowin' down now.

1. Jim O'Toole takes closes the book on the campaigning, writing on how even a bedridden Sophie Masloff can't be kept from the polls. KDKA wraps up by covering the final round of negative advertising. And of course, you can still see our photojournalists' coverage of the campaign trail.

2. Whomever is elected, he might want to take a look at the P-G's "One Big Idea" section from Sunday, which queried city figures famous and obscure for what they think the next executive's priorities should be.

3. Eric Boehm at PAIndependent has the long-view look at the fascinating Harrisburg mayors race, which looks even more contentious than our own.

4. For those tuning out of the election: Our Tim Grant writes about the miserable plight of graduates buried beneath student loan debt. Familiar story, but new poll numbers show what exactly they're giving up.

5. Lastly, stay tuned tonight to Laura Schneiderman's live elections results interactive, with ward-by-ward totals for the mayor's race.

Good morning Early Returners! In case you've been living under a rock, without a newspaper subscription or a postal address, we're just one day out from the main event: PITTSBURGH'S PRIMARY ELECTION. 

1. In Sunday's paper, political reporter/sensei Jim O'Toole wrapped up the candidate's last-minute campaigning efforts. 

2. Also in Sunday's paper, an awesome slice-of-life project by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's photographers. Five were assigned to follow a candidate and came back with some intimate portraits of their lives. (To the right, state Sen. Jake Wheatley with his son at a gymnastics class.) Find their work in this interactive. 

3. Neighborhoods reporter Diana Nelson Jones writes on an app to track those sometimes-perilous city steps that are absent from maps, or worse, sometimes interpreted as streets by less-than-adept GPS. 

4. Business reporter Ann Belser writes about a Brookings Institute study that finds that most of the region's impoverished live in the suburbs. One interesting find: while jobs are moving to the suburbs, public transit is failing to connect the suburban poor to those jobs. 

While 80.1 percent of the residents of Pittsburgh's lower-income suburbs had access to some sort of transit, just 16.9 percent of the region's jobs could be accessed within 90 minutes by transit.

5. Your #noexcuses story of the day. Meghan Wilson, 33, was paralyzed in a skiing accident as a teenager. She graduates today with her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, after already having earned a Ph.D. Megan's words:

"You have to be tough," she said. "You have to be prepared to prove yourself over and over again. Physicians rightfully must be skeptical. You have to be at ease and confident that you can take excellent care of patients."

One day to go in the city mayor's race -- you can pass the time by looking through the super-cool interactive photo feature below from the PG photo staff. You're going to want to click through the A.J. Richardson gallery for sure:

Good morning. Great one for Bike To Work Day.

1. How can county payroll costs go up while the workforce is going down? Andrew McGill has the answers: part of it comes from the tradition of giving public employees less in salary but more in benefits.

2. Late round haymakers are being thrown in the city mayor's race. Today, Jack Wagner's called an early afternoon presser Downtown on jobs and development.

2A: Need a reminder to vote Tuesday, or help with your voting location? Pledge to vote at the nonpartisan votePGH site, a project of the Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society

3. Quite the A-Team being assembled to investigate the mysterious cyanide death of a UPMC doctor.

4. It's the 100th anniversary of the Kaufmann's Clock, which by contract requires us to link to the story about Jeep (grandfather of Eugene) DePasquale inviting councilwoman Michelle Madoff to kiss his *** under said timepiece.

5. Might as well go full Pittsburgh then -- there's a new documentary on competitive marbles, and Pittsburgh's domination of the kid sport.