With its baroque society murders, ol’-boy corruption, gauche, over the top, nouveau riche style sense and regular outlandishness, Houston has always been a great news town. But this is one meta-step beyond what I thought even Houston was capable of: A county constable is reading the crime news on a major TV station. The constable, Victor Trevino, was in office, I think, in the early 1990s, way back when I was ending my days as a Houston reporter.
