Local Issues Articles

Toni Inglis Dec. 2012 UT-Austin School of Nursing Convocation Address

Bass Concert Hall, December 8, 2012

Thank you, Dean Stuifbergen, distinguished faculty, friends and families. Congratulations, Class of 2012! Here you are. You’ve completed something extremely difficult, been in school, many […]

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Proposition 1 would improve care now and in the future

Austin American-Statesman, October 26, 2012

Opponents of Proposition 1 ask why the state doesn’t pay for a medical school here. If we wait for the state, we’ll grow old and […]

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Neighbor, glider pilot, bringer of perspective

Austin American-Statesman, April 11, 2012

From 1981 to 2004, I had the incredibly good fortune of living on Scott Crescent, a crescent-shaped street about a quarter-mile long. Most of my […]

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A Lunch Break a Day Keeps the Lawyers Away

Austin American-Statesman, November 26, 2010

Working in a fast-paced, complex-care hospital setting is a juggling act for nurses, which is mainly what attracted us to the job and keeps us […]

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Trying to reconcile unspeakable horrors – as a mother and as a nurse

Austin American-Statesman, May 18, 2010

As a mom and a 30-year neonatal nurse, I’m tough. Or so I thought. I can deal with kids getting infections and being born prematurely, and I can help immensely with all that. And I can deal with and help with setbacks and recurrences. I never thought I’d be confronted with the scenario of a parent I once knew being charged with injury to a child.

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One man’s dream come true sounds like a nightmare

Austin American-Statesman, October 2, 2009

To vary a line from “Cool Hand Luke,” what we’ve got here is … failure of city leadership.

American-Statesman columnist Michael Barnes reported in Tuesday’s editions that the biggest post-Austin City Limits Music Festival bash in history is to be held at the iconic Seaholm Power Plant on Friday and Saturday nights. It’s a dream come true for producer Jason Hicks, Barnes wrote: “The Seaholm project is his moonshot.”

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Jake Pickle’s greatest gift to all of us

Austin American-Statesman, June 25, 2005

One of my fondest childhood memories was of Congressman J.J. “Jake” Pickle lighting up the First Methodist Church downtown when he’d enter, bigger than life, […]

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The ‘system’ isn’t failing to rescue Texas’ mentally ill. We are.

Austin American-Statesman, June 4, 2004

An administrator of a Central Texas nonprofit rural hospital asked me last week, “What is going on out there? Our ER, and even our general […]

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Seton-Brackenridge solution can work

Austin American-Statesman, August 31, 2001

It’s infuriating that a group of aging, celibate men in Rome could threaten women’s reproductive services at a public hospital in Austin. But public debate […]

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Legacies: Venola Schmidt, 1919-2001

The Good Life [p. 16], August 1, 2001

A eulogy delivered by Toni Inglis at Venola Schmidt’s memorial service on June 23, 2001, at First Unitarian Church. The Tuesday after Venola died, former […]

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