Brandy Marty is Gov. Rick Perry's new liaison to the Texas House. She's worked for the Guv, for several legislators, and as a teaching assistant in law school for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. She'll join David Eichler, her counterpart in the Senate.

Clay Brewer has been assigned to follow Mike Berger around at the Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife so he can figure out what Berger does every day. Berger, director of the agency's Wildlife Division, is retiring next month. Brewer, a regional director now stationed in Brownwood, will be acting director while a national search to replace Berger is finished.

And then there were none: John Moritz, the last reporter left in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Austin bureau, decided to take a buyout offer from that shrinking newspaper. That had been what other reporters regarded as a dangerous (meaning: competitive) gang of newsies. But R.A. "Jake" Dyer left in a round of layoffs earlier this summer and Jay Root split for the Associated Press. That leaves an empty office.

Bracewell & Giuliani hired former San Antonio Chamber CEO Joe Krier to help start a new Public Issues Management Group within the firm. Krier was at the chamber for 20 years. He'll be joined in that practice by Milam Mabry, who is moving to the firm's Austin office from its operation in Washington, D.C.

Gov. Perry appointed Frank Bryan Jr. of Austin, Karen Gordon of Port O'Connor, and Shari Waldie of Fredericksburg to the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners. Bryan is an attorney. Gordon and Waldie are physical therapists.

The Guv named Charlotte Foster of Houston to the State Preservation Board. She's a retired petroleum engineer. While we're here, that board hired Dealey Herndon to oversee restoration of the Governor's Mansion. She's been involved in a number of restoration projects as a private contractor, and she was director of the agency during the restoration and expansion of the State Capitol in the early 1990s.

The state's new Cancer Prevention and Research Institute elected its officers: James Mansour, president of Telephone Management of Austin, is chairman; Malcolm Gillis, a professor at Rice University, is vice chairman; and Fort Worth lawyer Dee Kelly is secretary.