Gabriel Metsu's Man Writing a LetterNever had time to make it to the Texas Big Cities Mayors shindig at City Hall today. But no matter: Meranda Cohn at Dallas City Hall this evening forwards along a copy of the mayors' letter to Governor Rick Perry, in which Tom Leppert, Bill White (Houston), Mike Moncrief (Fort Worth), Phil Hardberger (San Antonio), Will Wynn (Austin), John Cook (El Paso), Robert Cluck (Arlington) and Henry Garrett (Corpus Christi) spell out their "short list of critical legisl
DWI attorney David BurrowsSeveral hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away from offering the breath test to those suspected of driving while intoxicated. They are increasingly demanding the suspect give them a blood sample, even if they have to strap down that person to get it.
