Photo by normanackIn a surprisingly civilized and advanced move for our great state, local Texas House Democrats Jessica Farrar and Garnet Coleman co-authored and introduced a bill that would make post-partum psychosis a possible legal defense in trials of women who kill their children. Under the terms of the bill, in the sentencing phase of such trials, jurors could hear testimony about post-partum mental illnesses and could choose to apply them. Should they prove applicable, convicted wo
Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.
Steve Chesser went to MHMRA for help. Sent home from its emergency clinic without medicine or therapy, he shot his and killed himself. Diagnosis: A mental health care system in free fall.
Photo courtesy GHCVBSomeone asked us the other day what happened to all that grant money that was supposed to renovate apartment complexes along Broadway Boulevard and give the area a much-needed face lift. He was driving down the street and said it looked like not a single property had been fixed up. He was right. Turns out, one developer came in with a grant proposal for a Broadway complex --
the Woodlen Glen Apartments -- but the Glenbrook Valley Civic Club, led by retired school tea
You may have missed it this morning -- but a podcast should be available here (and part two is tomorrow)-- but NPR's Morning Edition came to Houston to look at how we handle growth.The network's Steve Inskeep said Houston represents the latest chapter of the Urban Frontier series because we have faced challenges and still do.Greater Houston has around 5.7 million people. They're spread across roughly 10,000 square miles. That's a larger land area than New Jersey.So many people, so many big ai
