May 28, 2017
Senate Bill 8 once again places the State in the position of deciding how a woman should exercise her constitutional right to an abortion. Instead of recognizing a woman's freedom to make personal cho...
Read MoreNovember 25, 2016
Thank you all for coming this morning. It truly is a great day to be in Austin, Texas -- because where else would today even be possible? At the end of September, five years ago this week, when ...
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2016
I’m the consummate optimist, always looking for ways to make lemonade out of lemons. Austin State Hospital, some of which dates back to the 1850s, is structurally one of the worst psychiatric hospi...
Read MoreSeptember 22, 2016
Sen. Kirk Watson on Thursday laid out a vision for creating an "MD Anderson of the Brain" on the site of Austin State Hospital. "We as Texans have a huge amount of pride in what MD Anderson does fo...
Read MoreMarch 17, 2016
As SXSW Interactive got going last week, I sat down with some big thinkers for a panel entitled Smart City: The Austin Opportunity for Health. One of the neatest things we touted was the unique commun...
Read MoreMarch 11, 2016
AUSTIN — Capitalizing on the healthcare transformation already underway in Austin, community leaders have created a new non-profit entity to foster the development of an Innovation Zone on the eastern...
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