Archive for March 15th, 2013

Some people have all the luck.

Friday, March 15th, 2013

For example, former Harris County DA Pat Lykos, who escaped grand jury indictment once again.

The Harris County grand jury’s decision to end its term without action ends a yearlong probe. It was initiated when the Texas Rangers asked for a special prosecutor to look into allegations that members of the Lykos administration had investigated members of another grand jury who spent six months looking into evidence collected by the Houston Police Department’s troubled breath alcohol testing vehicles.

More background is available by clicking the “HCDA” category. Also, Murray Newman has a few words to say.

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Your loser update.

Friday, March 15th, 2013

For the record: Grambling played their SWAC tournament game Wednesday night…and lost, finishing the season 0-28.

Meanwhile, Liberty University (of Jerry Falwell fame) started the season 0-8. But:

With four consecutive upsets, each one a little more astounding than the last, Liberty won the Big South tournament and barged into the N.C.A.A. tournament with a 15-20 record.

(I don’t place bets before the brackets are announced, but I’m thinking this is Gonzaga’s year. Just an aside.)

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Austin area blogmeet March 23rd?

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Lawrence and I are discussing doing an Austin area blog meetup on Saturday, March 23rd. We’ve tentatively discussed meeting at 6 PM at the Mangia Pizza on Mesa Drive. (I can provide directions if anyone needs them.) I think we’d both be open to other venues; however, we do want to stay away from downtown Austin due to SXSW, so we are kind of thinking either somewhat north or somewhat south.

Does this date work for folks? Is there general interest in doing a blog meetup and dinner? Let me know by email (stainles [at] gmail.com works well) or in the comments here.

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