Houston Matters
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.
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Houston Matters
Recovering Addicts In The Pandemic Face Another Hurdle — Isolation
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.
Transportation
Authorities Try New Approach to Combat Houston’s High Rate of Drunk Driving
Posted on · Besides looking for drunk drivers this Labor Day holiday, law enforcement will also go after establishments that illegally sell alcohol
Business
Texas Agency Overrides Judge Due To Outdated Alcohol Rules
Posted on · The rules require companies that make, distribute or retain alcohol to remain independent from each other
News
Report: Drugs Or Alcohol Factor Into Half Of Texas Child Abuse And Neglect Deaths
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.
News
Businesses Are Put On Notice When It Comes To Spring Break Alcohol Sales
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.
News
Here’s Why It’s Hard For Texans To Get Alcohol Shipped Directly To Them
Posted on · Texas liquor laws are infamously complex, and the reason dates back to the end of Prohibition
News
Is Alcohol A Problem? Online Tool Helps Assess Risk And Find Help
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
News
Bars And Restaurants In The Heights Can Sell Alcohol More Easily
Posted on · The Heights is no longer a dry zone
News
The Heights Restaurants Want To Sell Alcohol
Posted on · Restaurant owners in a local neighborhood are tired of being bound by a law made before the prohibition era.
Good, Bad and Ugly
Declining Home Sales and Booze in the Heights: The Good, Bad & Ugly of the News
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 […]
Houston Matters
Should the Houston Heights Remain A Dry Neighborhood?
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 […]
News
Texas Alcohol Regulators Target Retailers Over Spring Break
Posted on · Texas regulators plan a more than two-week undercover effort to help stop alcohol sales to minors during spring break.
Houston Matters
Houston Sell Far Less Alcohol to Minors
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 […]
Full Show
Pipeline Inspectors and The Game of the Century: Thursday’s Show (November 5, 2015)
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 […]