Want to know more about shield laws?
If you're interested in learning more about the proposed shield law, the Austin American Statesman offers this site (see clarification below). The idea behind the Free Flow of Information Act is to give journalists a concrete tool to protect confidential sources ...

Bud. Why, sir?
I don't want to besmirch a brand of beer, but I've noticed a common thread in crime photos from recent trials I've covered. Two cases in as many months -  the Bryan Brown trial and the Jorge Reyes Rowe trial ...

If this court room's a-rocking
Oh, just try to ignore it. It's the construction. Judge Robert Cheshire moved from his fancy, if accurately uncomfortable, courtroom in the historic courthouse to a grayer room on the third floor of the newer building for Jorge Rowe Reyes' murder ...