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Brian Phillips and Derek Cohen tackle the top headlines of the week, from Valentine's Day decorum, to property tax relief, to the lies and damn lies surrounding school choice.
2:17 Hot Take: How long can you date someone and NOT have to buy them a Valentine’s Day gift?
6:50 Property Tax Relief Update
17:17 DOGE cuts nearly $1 billion from Department of Education
22:25 NIH caps non-research funding
25:36 Some in Texas want their own statewide DOGE
29:14 Should Texas be reimbursed for Operation Lone Star?
32:13 Survey Says!
32:46 Taxpayer funded lobbying
34:09 Housing affordability
35:29 Texas State Border Security Agency
35:47 Nuclear Power
36:21 Bail Reform (the numbers appear split)
39:40 Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics - School Choice Myths
45:08 What’re you watching?
2:17 Hot Take: How long can you date someone and NOT have to buy them a Valentine’s Day gift?
6:50 Property Tax Relief Update
17:17 DOGE cuts nearly $1 billion from Department of Education
22:25 NIH caps non-research funding
25:36 Some in Texas want their own statewide DOGE
29:14 Should Texas be reimbursed for Operation Lone Star?
32:13 Survey Says!
32:46 Taxpayer funded lobbying
34:09 Housing affordability
35:29 Texas State Border Security Agency
35:47 Nuclear Power
36:21 Bail Reform (the numbers appear split)
39:40 Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics - School Choice Myths
45:08 What’re you watching?
Creators and Guests
Host
Brian Phillips
Brian Phillips is the Chief Communications Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. For over a decade, Brian has helped policymakers and political candidates develop effective messages and communication strategies. Phillips is a veteran of presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial campaigns, and has extensive experience working in the United States Congress and public policy think tanks.
Host
Derek M. Cohen
Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D, is the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Chief Policy & Research Officer and Right on Crime Senior Fellow. Previously the Vice President of Policy and director of Right on Crime, the Foundation’s criminal justice reform initiative, Cohen was instrumental in the passage of the First Step Act, federal legislation that borrowed from successful changes to prisons and sentencing that he had helped pass in conservative states. In addition to leading the Foundation’s work on criminal justice, he is also the lead researcher of firearms policy.
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