AltWeeklies Wire
Happy Trails? The Battle Over a Bike Pathnew
Everyone agrees that bike paths are great, except for one man who spent a decade trying to protect an AIDS garden.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
08-15-2013 |
Housing & Development
Uninsured Patients Slammed with Lawsuits by Not-for-Profit Hospitalnew
Memorial Hermann treats patients without insurance, tells them not to worry about the cost and then sues them for thousands of dollars.
Houston Press |
Dianna Wray |
07-26-2013 |
Health
Tags: Memorial Hermann
Innocent Bystandernew
Arrested for murder, Roderick O'Bryant got sucked into a court case that stole his life from him.
Houston Press |
Casey Michel |
07-18-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Double Lives, Extortion and the Suicide of a Respected Professornew
A respected Texas A&M professor with secrets to hide commits suicide and implicates his alleged blackmailer in a case where no one was really who he or she seemed to be.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
06-20-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Dow Chemical Tries to Avoid Hot Water in Worker’s Deathnew
Brian Johns suffered chemical burns over 65 percent of his body in a Deer Park plant explosion. A representative of his company, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, tried to tell doctors Johns had just encountered some really hot water.
Houston Press |
Dianna Wray |
06-12-2013 |
Business & Labor
One Officer's Struggle with the Texas Air National Guardnew
The Texas Air National Guard decides to step in the middle of an officer's private business, tossing him after he dates an about-to-be-divorced woman.
Houston Press |
Casey Michel |
05-22-2013 |
War
Open Season for Animal Abuse Videosnew
Ashley Nicole Richards, who filmed herself torturing and killing kittens, puppies, cats and dogs, was the first person brought up on revised federal crush-video charges -- which backfired magnificently.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
05-17-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Sterling High School: Keeping It All Togethernew
As Sterling High School's year comes to an end, merger talk has the community upset, critics say they can't trust HISD, and its latest principal is pulling out all the stops to try to get kids to graduation.
Houston Press |
Margaret Downing |
05-09-2013 |
Education
Tags: Houston schools
Shakedown: The HCAD Appraisal Gamenew
HCAD fights owners of moderate housing for every single assessment penny. So why is it routinely handing out tax breaks worth several millions to big corporations?
Houston Press |
Steve Jansen |
04-18-2013 |
Housing & Development
Police Protection: Speeding While Silentnew
Houston Police Department policies governing lights, high speeds and sirens are supposedly there to safeguard the public. Tell that to Mattie Etubom.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
04-10-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Doubling Down: Texas and Casino Gamblingnew
The Alabama-Coushatta want their casino back. The Texas horse tracks say betting on races isn't enough. Both see expanded gambling in the state as their ticket to solvency.
Houston Press |
Casey Michel |
04-03-2013 |
Economy
Bloody Tide: How Puerto Rico Affects the U.S.new
As Puerto Rico is battered by a wave of drugs and brazen murders, Houston and other continental U.S. cities feel the blowback.
Houston Press |
Casey Michel and Michael E. Miller |
03-21-2013 |
International
Breaking Bad: Digital Drug Sales, Analog Drug Deathsnew
The feds and a prosecutor say a Houston company selling synthetic drugs on the Internet is responsible for the deaths of teenagers in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
03-14-2013 |
Drugs
Returning War Contractors Face Second Battle, Against Insurance Giant AIGnew
Whatever your role in the U.S. war effort, if you were injured overseas, at least you'd be covered back home, right?
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
11-16-2012 |
War
Tags: war contractors
What's Behind Gary Douglas's Scientology Knockoff?new
Access Consciousness promises to help you reach a higher plane. For a price.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
11-08-2012 |
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