…so I guess we can talk about it now: Downtown Seattle just might, might mind you, be about to face a luxury-condo glut. Of the umpteen projects currently announced, some may not get built. Developers, natch, say all’s still well n’ fine, not to worry, bubble-what-bubble?.

IT’S NOT JUST A FEW BAD APPLES, it’s dozens of bad apples and alleged bad apples: Over the past five years, 125 schoolteachers in our state have been “punished for sexual misconduct,” including unwanted groping and rude remarks toward students. The usual question: Are teachers getting ruder to students, or are students/parents/administrators getting more nerve to press charges?

IN OTHER SCHOOLHOUSE RUDENESS, vandals over the weekend disabled the Snoqualmie School District’s entire fleet of school buses.

JOHN S. MURRAY, 1925-2007: The former state legislator owned the Queen Anne News and Magnolia News from 1953 until sometime in the 1980s. (They’re now the prime properties of Pacific Publishing, which also owns the Capitol Hill Times and has a sales contract with the Belltown Messenger.) Murray also acquired, and ran into the ground, the downtown-insiders’ tabloid Argus and the pioneering local slick monthly View Northwest. In all these, he ran editorials advocating a square, pre-extreme Republicanism, and in which his prose repeatedly revealed he was a businessman and not a scribe. Murray also owned the old News Publishing printing plant on Third Avenue north of Bell Street, recently demolished for the Moda condo project.

AND REMEMBER, tread lightly in the woods if you’re scavanging for wild mushrooms. Of course, with some of those fungi among-I, you can just float out of the wilderness…