Newsclips on Health Care and Other Issues

Below are some items in today's news that I thought you would find interesting. - Garnet

In the News

• Houston Chronicle: One in three adults in Harris County lacked health insurance in 2008 while Texas continued to have the highest rate of uninsured residents in the nation, the Census Bureau reported Monday.

• Houston Chronicle: Columnist Lisa Falkenberg interviews me for a column in which she notes that "[w]e may soon have to come up with a different word to describe 'other' in this fondue pot of a city. We're all minorities now. The latest numbers to tally Houston's journey of growth and diversification came Monday in estimates from the American Community Survey, a U.S. Census snapshot for 2008. They show whites, who made up 63 percent of Harris County's population in 1980, now are just 36 percent of the population."