Wednesday Telegraph Room

... Oops! Kirkland police released some 300 pages of investigative material about the stabbing deaths and arson to KING-TV (5)—documents that were not subject to public disclosure. The station has agreed to no longer call attention to the genie standing beside that bottle over there. ...

... One wonders what circumstances would necessitate a woman bribing teenage boys with favors to have sex with her—aside from the fact she's a juvenile-detention guard and they are inmates. As revealed by a big investigation of the King County Juvenile Detention Center, another guard was allegedly impregnated by an inmate, and their love child is now 2 years old. ... With a documents release yesterday, the Times adds detail to the case it first wrote about last month, of the state-licensed foster father who aparrently was, in actuality, a state-licensed child molester. The P-I wrote about this yesterday and follows up today. ... In other youth news, a 22-year-old allegedly attacked his parents with a cleaver. ...

... The idea of building a bridge across Elliott Bay instead of somehow replicating the Alaskan Way Viaduct just won't die. ... Chief Sealth High School has been stripped of two state girls' basketball championships and must forfeit four seasons' worth of games after a recruiting scandal revealed by the Times. ... As we reported last month, the decision tonight by the Seattle School Board on closing seven school buildings doesn't even begin to address the district's budget problems. ... Faber College—er, the University of Washington wants to be a better neighbor. ...

... In the first of a series on the Senate candidates, the Times examines the influence his lawmaker father, Joe, had on GOP challenger Mike!™ McGavick. Joe McGavick was "the last Republican state legislator to represent Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood since the Great Depression." ... Another Microsoft brain is drained. ... Indian tribes pump $3 billion into the state economy, says a study commissioned by the Tulalips. ...

... Almost exactly 40 years after Namu took Seattle by splash, The Washington Post reports on our love affair with killer whales. (I'm sorry, but ever since I saw this movie at age 9, they've been killer whales to me.) The paper interviews former Secretary of State and orca nut Ralph Munro:

"I know it sounds kooky," Munro, 63, said during a break at a recent public hearing on the plan to make Puget Sound a protected zone, "but I can show you 10 people in this room who have had mystical experiences with orcas."

Make that 11, Ralph. ...

... A potentially terrorizing slug that hid in Bulgarian mushrooms tried to sneak into the U.S. at Sea-Tac but was caught, says U.S. Customs and Border Protection. No, hey, really, seriously. ...