Now that we know, again, the outcome of this year’s presidential race, please give me a few moments today to catch up on some things I’ve been meaning to tell you about. The first is a sad one, especially for those who were around the Texas Capitol and its then in-house, just-outside-the-House press room from 1960 to 1986. Lee Jones, my friend and former colleague at The Associated Press Capitol Bureau, passed away on Dec. 7 at age 82. Though he left the news biz many years ago, Jones is just what the profession and its consumers need right now. An award-winning, journalist’s journalist, he reported the news straight down the middle. No way you could divine Jones’ politics from what he wrote during his Capitol stints at the AP (1960-1981, with two years off for Army service) and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (1981-1986).