Photo by Grundlepuck from the Seattlest Flickr poolWorried about rising material costs, the Seattle school district has sped ahead with construction of new schools without waiting to get input from parents. "I mean, you could drag these things out for another two years...We have to say 'Did we do enough to move forward with the project?' That's what I'm really looking into," School Board member Harium Martin-Morris told the Times' Emily Heffter. Who are......

--By a--if you can believe this--unanimous vote of the Seattle School Board, Maria Goodloe-Johnson is the new superintendent. --You already couldn't listen to Don Imus in Seattle, but now it's a nationwide thing. --The hiker who died in a fall at Baker Lake this week was also a rocker. --Mariners vs. Boston postponed due to this. --According to the P-I, Seattle has other blogs. --Local boy Luke Burbank on his new, as-yet-untitled NPR show. --How......

We understand that you come to us for up-to-the-minute information about the Seattle School Board election. On Saturday the Times ran an article calling the races for school board in Seattle "the hottest." Of course the article focused on how most candidates in the state are running unopposed. We were going to break down trends, come up with graphs, demand answers from those bureaucratic fat cats, and really delve into why of the 47 seats......