Subject: University of Texas Medical Branch

• Buck for Their Bang

  November 9, 2006

• TDCJ Death Sparks A Lawsuit

  September 24, 2008

• Raw Deal

  Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. But is anyone listening?

  December 9, 1999

• Kentucky Newspaper Says R.I.P, Galveston

  October 29, 2008

• Dying on the Cheap

  February 17, 1994

• Sex and Death on the Restroom Wall

  March 7, 1996

• Lost in the Cause

  May 29, 1997

• Following the Money

  January 22, 1998

• Critical Diagnosis

  January 22, 1998

• Taking Stock of Galveston's Restaurants

  Photos by Katharine Shilcutt Casey's giant fiberglass shrimp looks out from the restaurant onto the Gulf of Mexico.Driving along Broadway on your way into the heart of Galveston, it would appear that the island has finally sprung back to life five months after Hurricane Ike passed directly over it.  Stores and restaurants are open, medians are planted with fat clumps of flowers, traffic -- even on a Thursday -- is robust.  But leaving Broadway in either direction -- t

  February 22, 2009

• Letters

  February 12, 1998

• A Bitter Pill

  April 23, 1998

• Two Bullets in the Back

  July 9, 1998

• Magic Flutes

  November 12, 1998

• Segovian Six-Stringer

  February 4, 1999

• Hurricane Ike's Wake

  Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast struggle on in the storm's aftermath

  January 8, 2009

• Bad Faith and Texas Mutual Insurance

  November 13, 2008

• The Further Adventures of King Con

  Yet again, Steven Russell bluffed his way out of prison. And yet again, he got caught.

  May 14, 1998

• Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?

  Years after Sybil, the debate continues

  April 17, 2008

• A Moon Swoon

  One Houston preacher gave up the cross for the cult

  March 9, 2006

• Care and Feeding

  Whole Foods wants lobsters to live large before dying

  December 1, 2005

• Jailhouse Crock

  UTMB's controversial proposed deal with the city dies

  June 30, 2005

• The Fix Is In

  UTMB is under fire in Dallas for its jail health care. So why is Houston ready to install it here?

  June 9, 2005

• Uncivil Action

  No one's responsible for a body-parts debacle

  March 31, 2005

• Attention Deficit

  Kristen Turner was supposed to have a better, safer life while in CPS custody, so how did the 14-year-old end up in the hospital?

  October 16, 2003

• Beer Brawl

  Starbucks tries to step on the start-up of Starbock beer

  October 2, 2003

• Playing by the Rules

  A Houston softball team accuses Atlanta of being too straight

  September 18, 2003

• Deal of a Lifetime

  Drug addicts can get hard cash to be sterilized or go on birth control. Is it ridding the world of unwanted babies -- or just ducking the underlying problems of abusers?

  February 27, 2003

• Alien-ated Youth

  They're the next step in human evolution. But they're just like everybody else.

  December 19, 2002

• Over and Out

  Baylor balks at budget questions and boots a new hire

  November 21, 2002

• Overdose

  Dr. Shelley's new operating room reveals the worst and best of a City Council under term limits

  August 22, 2002

• Gangstas in Paradise

  Galveston has beautiful beaches, the Strand and Moody Gardens. North of Broadway it has the projects, crippling poverty and big-city problems. And now the bad guys are back.

  December 6, 2001

• Smear Campaign?

  Accusations of abuse closed "Mama" King's Galveston day care. But do they hold water?

  June 14, 2001

• Mixing It Up

  She just wanted her comfortable suburban life. But when a concrete company intruded on her paradise, the homemaker turned warrior.

  May 10, 2001

• Rough Cut

  A film-in-progress dissects the relationship between med students and their cadavers

  January 25, 2001

• No More Waiting Room

  A mother fights for a therapeutic dive for all who need it

  April 20, 2000

• The Man Who Knew Too Soon?

  Eight years ago Tom Curtis reported that AIDS could have been spread by an experimental polio vaccine grown on monkey kidneys. Scientists sniffed. Journalists scoffed. The story died. Now, a new book says the theory wasn't so stupid after all.

  January 20, 2000

• Trouble in Mind

  Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

  July 8, 1999

• Laid Off UTMB-Galveston Faculty Not Having A Lot Of Luck With Appeals

  The Scientist, a magazine that takes a skeptical look at goings-on in the medical industry, has a new report out on UTMB-Galveston's treatment of faculty in the wake of Hurricane Ike.Color them unimpressed. (Free registration may be required.)Or, maybe impressed -- just not in a good way. If you're tossing around terms like "show trials," it's generally not too positive a report. Only a couple of the former University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) faculty members who challenged their terminatio

  June 23, 2009

• Life, Post-Ike

  September 10, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Houston Haunts

  Photos by Brittanie SheyEntrance to the Donnellan vault below the Franklin Street Bridge​Texas Traveler has spent the better part of the month checking out some of the creepiest, oldest, most interesting parts of Houston and it's neighboring cities, and to wrap up the month we have a few more tales to tell you about. Below, five Houston haunts you may not have known about. Donnellan vault Fancy a drink at the Brewery Tap? Be sure to walk a few feet west to the Franklin Street bridge and l

  October 26, 2009