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Derek is joined by this week’s guest host, Andrew Brown, to discuss the foster care system, the child gender modification debate, trends in higher education, a close call with the Texas grid, and the legal battle over Texas' buoy barrier on the border.
1:58 Meet TPPF's Andrew Brown
4:03 Conservative Child Welfare Policy
12:57 Legislative Process Talk
17:41 Child Gender Modification (SB 14)
28:56 The State of Higher Education
37:59 The Texas Grid's Close Call
45:45 Texas' Buoy Barrier Dispute
1:58 Meet TPPF's Andrew Brown
4:03 Conservative Child Welfare Policy
12:57 Legislative Process Talk
17:41 Child Gender Modification (SB 14)
28:56 The State of Higher Education
37:59 The Texas Grid's Close Call
45:45 Texas' Buoy Barrier Dispute
Creators & Guests
Host
Derek M. Cohen
Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D, is the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Chief 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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The Right Idea: The Texas Public Policy Foundation's weekly look at the people, policy, and politics that drive Texas.