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Roundup: Judges, Journalists and Jails

While I'm focused elsewhere today, let me point readers to several items that might deserve individual blog posts if I had more time:No good answers for picking judgesI'm virtually certain nothing will change this session, but there's been a lot of debate this year over whether to shift from elected to appointed judges. Personally I don't have a big problem with electing judges because the appointed ones can be just as biased and political.Protecting journalists before they're extinctBy contrast, it looks like the Lege may finally pass a journalists' shield law, possibly just before the last ones leave the building and turn out the lights at the state's daily newspapers.Collective bargaining for private jails?Texas Prison Bidness lets us know about a bill by Rep...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).