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A Song for You: Roundup

Here are several items I've been meaning to mention before I leave town, compiled in a song-title themed roundup:Sympathy for the DevilJust because he's a drunken, lecherous asshole, says one of his former clerks, doesn't mean defrocked federal Judge Samuel Kent should be mistreated in prison.Self InflictedWeird, tumultuous news from Dallas DA Craig Watkins recently: The Dallas DA's office inexplicably opposes a GPS-based alternative sentencing program for low level offenders which has saved the county hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, an appellate court said that county commissioners did indeed have the authority to hire their own legal counsel instead of using the DA's office for legal advice on civil matters, a move which subtly but significantly reduced the power of his office and opened the door for larger budget cuts which he's been adamantly fighting...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 23, 2010 (boomark / email).