Houston Matters

One Year After St. Joseph Shooting: Hospitals Relying More on Armed Security

Posted on · One year ago tomorrow (Aug. 27, 2015), a University of Houston student named Alan Pean was shot while being treated at downtown Houston's St. Joseph Medical Center. Pean was having a psychotic episode when security was summoned to his room in the form of two off-duty HPD officers moonlighting as hospital security. They said Pean […]

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Bad and Ugly, More Bad and Ugly, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and More Good: Friday’s Show (August 26, 2016)

Posted on · Apologies for the bizarre headline, but sometimes our show has some rather wild shifts in both variety and tone. We lead off this edition of Houston Matters by discussing a new study in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology which finds the number of women in Texas who died from complications from pregnancy nearly doubled between […]