
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


On Tuesday's show: President Donald Trump wants specialized National Guard units ready to deploy to U.S. cities to quell civil disturbances and ensure public safety and order. We discuss what that means, whether we could see troops deployed here, and whether this is largely a pretense to step up immigration enforcement.
Also this hour: A new Texas law expands when someone can be detained for psychiatric evaluation. Some welcome the change while others worry it crosses a line. We discuss the debate over involuntary treatment and its cost.
Then, a recent investigation by the Texas Observer explores the murky legal world of some private foster and adoption agencies.
And we meet a competitive Scrabble player.
By Houston Public Media4.4
9595 ratings
On Tuesday's show: President Donald Trump wants specialized National Guard units ready to deploy to U.S. cities to quell civil disturbances and ensure public safety and order. We discuss what that means, whether we could see troops deployed here, and whether this is largely a pretense to step up immigration enforcement.
Also this hour: A new Texas law expands when someone can be detained for psychiatric evaluation. Some welcome the change while others worry it crosses a line. We discuss the debate over involuntary treatment and its cost.
Then, a recent investigation by the Texas Observer explores the murky legal world of some private foster and adoption agencies.
And we meet a competitive Scrabble player.

38,062 Listeners

30,666 Listeners

43,528 Listeners

25,797 Listeners

5,101 Listeners

177 Listeners

5 Listeners

111,948 Listeners

68 Listeners

56,508 Listeners

9,532 Listeners

10,282 Listeners

45 Listeners

2,400 Listeners

5,201 Listeners

16 Listeners

5 Listeners

4,802 Listeners

6,446 Listeners

6,564 Listeners

6,381 Listeners