taks trademark, parker county

Here’s my story from today’s front page, on Texas’ new efforts to sell its standardized tests to folks out of state. I believe (cross your fingers) that this is my last standardized test story for a while. Praise be.
I had to work a 3 p.m.-to-midnight shift Saturday night, and I thought it would be a fine time to catch up on some blogging. Alas, I ended up spending the whole damned shift dodging mosquitoes and tracking escaped convicts. Here’s that story.