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Permanently Legalizing Alcohol In Take-Out Orders: The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of The Week
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Posted on · Three Houston experts on addiction and recovery talk about the pitfalls of social distancing and the ways they've helped each other heal from home.
Posted on · Besides looking for drunk drivers this Labor Day holiday, law enforcement will also go after establishments that illegally sell alcohol
Posted on · The rules require companies that make, distribute or retain alcohol to remain independent from each other
Posted on · The number of Texas children dying from abuse and neglect decreased by 22.5 percent in fiscal year 2017, according to a state report, but drug and alcohol use among caregivers is still leading to deaths from trauma, accidental smothering while sleeping and auto accidents, among other causes.
Posted on · As young people flock to the beach, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is working to prevent bars and convenience stores from selling alcohol to minors. Agents have been doing sting operations in some of the Spring Break hotspots.
Posted on · Texas liquor laws are infamously complex, and the reason dates back to the end of Prohibition
Posted on · Treatment for alcohol problems isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. The NIH has launched a navigator site that can help figure out the scope of the problem and find evidence-based treatment options
Posted on · The Heights is no longer a dry zone
Posted on · Restaurant owners in a local neighborhood are tired of being bound by a law made before the prohibition era.
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week's news, we turn to our rotating panel of "non-experts" to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. This week our panel examines: The […]
Posted on · The Houston Heights is an area comprising a portion of what most folks know more colloquially as "The Heights." Well, that area has been dry for nearly a century now, but the neighborhood's beverage coalition wants voters to change that in November. To learn more, we talk with Steve Reilley, spokesperson for the Houston Heights […]
Posted on · Texas regulators plan a more than two-week undercover effort to help stop alcohol sales to minors during spring break.
Posted on · Based on the results of a recent sting, retailers in the Greater Houston region sell alcohol to underage customers less often than retailers anywhere else in Texas. Less than 5 percent of retailers targeted were caught selling alcohol to minors here, compared with about 9 percent statewide, and 13 percent in Dallas. We talk with […]
Posted on · Two local lawmakers, Congressmen Gene Green and Pete Olsen, have introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives designed to hire and keep enough pipeline inspectors to cover the nation’s 2.6 million miles of pipeline infrastructure. On this edition of Houston Matters, we hear from Rep. Green about why he feels the additional inspectors […]