Galveston County Daily News, Feb. 21, 2009
For three hours Friday, Republicans, Democrats, doctors, nurses, medical students, patients, lawyers, architects, the rich, the poor, the young and the old queued up at microphones to deliver something as rare as snow in this island city famous for contention - near unanimous agreement. They all wanted the hurricane-damaged hospital and trauma services at the UTMB rebuilt better on the island.