Christine Gregoire, "Newspaper Savior"

There are no ink stains on Chris Gregoire's power suits, but maybe she deserves a Pulitzer Prize for excellence in journalism anyway. With the stroke of her pen this week, the 62-year-old governor of Washington has done more to save her state's struggling newspaper business than two dozen genius publishers--and she just might have started a national trend.

The article also details her disappointment in the disappearance of the P-I ("Absolutely I miss it... [Now] [w]hen you go in their building, I tell you, it is heart-wrenching") and her middle-school dalliance with journalism, when she ran a paper that found itself in hot water with an administration that was worried about public displays of affection at school dances.