Ilta-Sanomat has more news from ongoing discussions about Finland's 2025 state budget. Some adjustments are necessary, according to the Finance Ministry, with the state needing to save billions of euros more than previously planned.
The government parties are mostly agreed on that. But the devil is in the details.
IS says that a week from now negotiations will begin in earnest, but that their sources believe the savings will have to be found among the "upper middle class".
Up to now, most cuts have fallen on benefits for younger and lower-income groups, such as the unemployed. There may not be much more to cut at this point among those groups.
Deductions currently utilised by many better-off taxpayers might be on the chopping block, including the deduction for household expenses. That can be used to reduce tax bills if you have work done around the home.
It has previously been reported that VAT is likely to increase as well, as a one percentage point increase would raise 615 million euros and fill a big chunk of the budget shortfall.
There is also a continuing debate over cuts to pensions. The Finns Party would be willing to make cuts in pension spending, but the National Coalition Party is opposed.
Flying Tappara
Iltalehti asks Tampere hockey club Tappara why they are planning to fly a 295km trip to Kuopio this weekend as they head into the Liiga playoff semifinals.
A win there would put them 3-0 up in the series, with four wins needed to secure progress to the final.
The club says it is chartering a plane at a cost of around 80,000 euros in order to maximise recovery time for the players.
IL wonders if that might conflict with the club's environmental programme, but the team's CEO says that recovery time for the players between crucial playoff games is more important, and that they would not fly these distances during the regular season.
Oulu team Kärpät also flew direct to their away games in Mikkeli, in the opposite south-eastern corner of the country, in the previous round. That's a distance of 445km, making a very long drive for any hockey team travelling after a game finishes late.
In the semi-finals Kärpät will fly again to Lahti, arriving via the Helsinki-Vantaa airport.
They do normally travel by bus to Kuopio, Vaasa and Jyväskylä, the closest Liiga locations to Oulu. But longer trips are made by train or plane.
Kärpät do, however, try to offset the emissions by buying credits linked to carbon sinks in Finnish commercial forests.
Mister Teksti TV
Helsingin Sanomat carries a report on an Yle colleague, Matti Rämö, who is single-handedly responsible for keeping Yle's teletext service "Teksti-TV" running.
In a piece headlined "Mister Teksti-TV" HS outlines the continued popularity of the service, which draws around 1.2 million users a week, and an average of 780,000 every day.
Commercial broadcasters MTV and Nelonen have recently announced plans to close down their teletext services.
That's not exceptional worldwide: the United Kingdom, which was the first to introduce the technology, now has no functional teletext operations.
HS reports that makes Rämö sad, as he's a strong believer in the social usefulness of text-based news served through a television screen.
At 62 he is nearing retirement, and more time cycling and watching SSC Napoli (although HS does not mention either hobby).
Rämö remains confident that Teksti-TV will continue under someone else's stewardship — "it's not rocket science", he says, "but you have to deal with a lot of rubbish".
You can read Yle's English pages on Teksti-TV at page 190.
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