{"id":463327,"date":"2026-10-12T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463327\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T00:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:18:13","slug":"talking-points-10-11-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463327\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points &#8212; 10\/11\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/local-news\/talking-points-10-11-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LUBBOCK, Texas<\/a> \u2014 This week on Talking Points, KAMC\u2019s Jen Phillips spoke with District 84 Representative Carl Tepper about his role on the Texas House Oversight Committee and the responsibilities that come with settling land disputes between states and districts.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Jen Phillips talked with Dr. Mitchell Elkind, Chief Science Officer of Brain Health and Stroke at the American Heart Association, about Proposition 14 that was approved by voters last November. The proposition created an \u201cAlzheimer\u2019s Research Fund,\u201d and Dr. Elkind spoke out about the legal challenges that the proposition is facing.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Jen Phillips takes a look into the recent controversy surrounding OB\/GYN positions in Lubbock, speaking with the CEO of the University Medical Center Mark Funderburk and Executive Associate Dean of the TTU Health Sciences Center Marty Clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 This week on Talking Points, KAMC\u2019s Jen Phillips spoke with District 84 Representative Carl Tepper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-463327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}