WTAW - Interviews

This podcast contains comments from the November 24, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council takes almost one hour at its last meeting to redefine family in the city's ordinance governing the designation of shared housing. That had to be done to comply with a new state law that restricts the mention of familial status. Click HERE to read and download presentatio...

This podcast is Texas A&M head football coach Mike Elko's visit with reporters after learning the Aggies will host a first round playoff game against Miami.

This podcast contains comments from the December 4, 2025 Blinn College trustees meeting. Blinn College trustees are told the final fall enrollment number is the second highest since the pandemic at 18,362. That's a district wide increase of 273 from the fall of 2024. Vice chancellor Becky McBride reported a 17 percent increase or 434 more high school dual credit students and a 13 percent increase...

Barbara Moore, University and Community Relations Manager, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the College Station Christmas Parade, the Jingle Bell Fun Run, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Ben Johnson and Tamara Garza with the city of Bryan talk with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the Holiday Porch Stroll in the Eastside Historic District that takes place Sunday, December 7. Click HERE to read and download a map and details of the event. Click HERE to be directed to the city of Bryan webpage for more information.

Brazos County Acting Judge Kyle Kacal visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about current building projects, the new medical examiner's office, economic development, county business, what needs to be addressed in 2026, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from Texas A&M football head coach Mike Elko's meeting with reporters on National Signing Day, December 3 2025.  Here are Elko's responses to questions about parental involvement in recruiting their children, the upcoming college football playoffs, and the possibility that Aggies offensive coordinator Collin Klein may become the next head coach at Kansas State.

Lina Adams with the Destination Bryan tourism office visits with WTAW's Bill Oliver about December events in Bryan.

This podcast contains comments from the November 24, 2025 College Station city council meeting. For the second time in five months, the College Station city council hears about flooding along Bee Creek in the Emerald Forest neighborhood east of the freeway. During the one hour update at the council's November 24th meeting, public works director Emily Fisher said staff has contacted private landown...

This podcast contains comments from the December 1, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Those who have an interest in the Bryan ISD school calendar for the 2026-27 school year can take a survey through December 10th. Click HERE to be directed to the Bryan ISD online survey. Then the school board is scheduled to make a decision on the 15th. Board members were updated on the development on two opti...

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about new city manager Andrew Nelson, his experience with power and utility service, filling his position on the BTU Board, development incentives, roads and subdivisions in the county, upcoming events, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the November 13, 2025 College Station city council meeting. In July 2025, a consultant hired by the College Station city council met with representatives of local tourism businesses and committees. At the council's November 13th meeting, the consultant presented an update to the council. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials at the November 13,...

This podcast contains comments from the November 17, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Two weeks after voters in Bryan ISD approved bond issues for $397 million dollars of projects, administrators gave school board members the sequence of events that will take place. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the November 17, 2025 Bryan ISD board meeting. Construction will take...

This podcast is a visit with KBTX-TV anchor Rusty Surette on WTAW's The Infomaniacs previewing the 30th annual Food For Families event benefitting the Brazos Valley Food Bank.  Click HERE to be directed to the Brazos Valley Food Bank website for more information about Food For Families.

This week's United Way of the Brazos Valley update features partner agency Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center. 

Andrea Buck, APO Director of Outreach, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about the opening of Ally's Home. 

This podcast contains comments from the November 13, 2025 College Station city council meeting. College Station city council members make an exception in the normally routine approval of pre-qualifying outside companies to provide on-call services. There was no opposition to Bob Yancy's request to drop one company from the list. Yancy did not want on the list, the company initially hired to do soi...

This podcast contains comments from the November 18, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting, chaired by acting county judge Kyle Kacal. Brazos County commissioners vote three to one to continue using a consultant to manage road projects financed by a voter approved bond issue in November 2022.But the amount of money the consultants is going down as they are managing fewer projects. The commission m...

This podcast is a visit with assistant Brazos County district attorney Jessica Escue and WTAW's Bill Oliver. A Brazos County district judge sentencing a Temple man to prison for evading arrest with a prior conviction resulted in additional criminal charges. One of the prosecutors at the sentencing hearing, Jessica Escue, says when 24 year old Jeffery Warren reacted to the prison sentence by creati...

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about nickels, parking regulations in neighborhoods, responding to informed citizen input, The Big 6 project, Dave & Buster's and Sprouts coming to College Station, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the November 17, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD school board members at the November 17th meeting were given an update on the education foundation bringing comfort dogs to three elementary schools.  The principal at Kemp-Carver, Alison Boggan introduced June, who is a one year old black Labrador. Boggan and Kemp-Carver teacher Cara Peters shared...

This podcast contains comments from the November 24, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council's second meeting of November was moved to Monday (November 24) due to Thanksgiving. Purchases approved by the council included new playground equipment at three city parks. Assistant parks and recreation director Gene Ballew explained the process of selecting Castlegate,...

This podcast contains comments from the November 18, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members spent more than 40 minutes at the end of the November regular meeting discussing in private, who will lead the board for the next 12 months.  After the executive session, there was no public discussion before making two votes. The first was a unanimous vote n...

This podcast contains comments from the November 13, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Action at the College Station city council meeting on November 13th included unanimous approval was given to updates in the fire and life safety codes as presented by fire chief Richard Mann. The chief said the biggest change is adding a section about lithium batteries. There is also a new requirement f...

This week's United Way of the Brazos Valley update features partner agency Save Our Streets Ministries.