WTAW - Interviews

This podcast is comments from Brazos County district attorney Jarvis Parsons at the March 10, 2026 county commission meeting. Brazos County district attorney Jarvis Parsons tells county commissioners about the success of his first one-day version of his multi-week citizens prosecutors academy.  Parsons said the North Bryan community center was packed for January's "D.A. In A Day" event. Based on a...

This podcast contains comments from the March 10, 2026 Bryan city council meeting and a portion of a March 13, 2026 interview on WTAW's The Infomaniacs with College Station deputy city manager Jeff Capps. Traffic cameras that read license plates have and continued to be installed along state highways around Brazos County. The Bryan city council at its March regular meeting unanimously approved add...

City of College Station Deputy City Manager Jeff Capps joined WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on The Infomaniacs on Friday, March 13, 2026, to talk about water conservation and supply, fire department union activities, traffic cameras used by the police department, and more. 

This podcast contains comments from the March 10, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. For the second straight year, a member of the Brazos Valley beekeepers association asks county commissioners to direct staff to not kill honeybees. Chris Barnes, who with his wife have 60 honeybee colonies around Brazos County, gave commissioners his contact information when county employees working outside co...

This podcast contains comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. In November of 2025, 75 people interested in the future of College Station's Midtown district met with city staff. Results of that gathering were shared at the last meeting of the city council on February 26th. Click HERE to read and download the College Station Midtown district area plan report. Click...

This podcast contains comments from the March 10, 2026 Bryan city council workshop meeting and  an interview during WTAW's The Infomaniacs program on March 11, 2026. The Bryan city council's interest in Union Pacific railroad not sounding train horns in the downtown area dates back to 2007. Almost 20 years later, the current council is still waiting for the railroad to approve a quiet zone. The co...

City of Bryan Recreation Coordinator Maddie Green joined WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, March 12, 2026, to talk about the Annual Senior Dance, Games & Grounds, other upcoming senior programs, and more. 

This podcast contains comments from city of Bryan economic development director Todd McDaniel at the March 10, 2026 city council meeting. The Bryan city council approves an economic development agreement with the world's largest privately owned producer of industrial gases. Messer LLC, based in Germany, plans to open a more than $65 million dollar facility east of the freeway and south of Tabor Ro...

This podcast contains comments from the March 10, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. In this year's Brazos County budget, commissioners previously authorized the creation of positions for the new medical examiner's office. At Tuesday's meeting (March 10), commissioners voted three to one to fund three positions. The divided vote was about hiring two investigators instead of one. Fred Brown was...

Bryan mayor pro-tem James Edge visits with Scott DeLucia on WTAW's The Infomaniacs March 11, 2026 to review the March 10th city council meeting.

This podcast contains comments from the February 24, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners are told that $34 million dollars need to be spent on deferred maintenance of county buildings during the next ten years. County documents show deferred maintenance estimates are just over $18 million at the Brazos County jail, more than $9 million at the Brazos Center, $4.7 mill...

This podcast contains comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. College Station city council members at their last meeting (February 26), spent more than one hour before adopting the first revision to the city's economic development master plan since 2020. Consultants hired by the council titled their 34 page report "The College Town of Texas". And the beginning of...

This podcast is a visit with city of Bryan assistant city manager Kevin Russell and WTAW's Bill Oliver. In December of 2023, the Bryan city council approved an economic development agreement for a developer to bring multi family housing and a shopping center anchored by an H-E-B on land bordered by Boonville Road, Briarcrest Drive, and Green Valley Drive. Most recently, right turn lanes off Boonvi...

This podcast contains comments from the February 24, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners add $975,000 dollars to the $15 million dollar renovation of the administration building. The contract change order approved at the commission's February 24th meeting also adds 60 days to the timeline of the project, or until May of 2027. The county's website says "funding for th...

This podcast includes comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. College Station police goes to social media to bring up seeing numerous people on scooters being injured in crashes. And the increasing number of scooter crashes was brought up at the last city council meeting (February 26) by police chief Billy Couch. He shared the results of an educational campaign th...

This podcast contains comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. Predatory towing of vehicles in privately owned parking lots in College Station was discussed during the last city council meeting (February 26). As part of police chief Billy Couch's review of PD activity last year, he shared that the state regulates towing companies and wrecker drivers. Couch brought...

This podcast is a visit with Bryan police officer Seth Waller and WTAW's Bill Oliver. March First Friday activities in downtown Bryan will include an increased police presence. Bryan police officer Seth Waller says the additional attention at a mass gathering like First Friday follows last weekend's mass shooting in downtown Austin's entertainment district and the war in Iran which is a week old....

This podcast contains comments from the March 2, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. The Bryan ISD school board selects the first of what will be several architects that will work on portions of the $397 million dollar bond issue that voters approved in November 2025. The board at its March 2nd meeting, awarded an $89,242 dollar contract to "design and administer construction services" for the ne...

City of College Station public works director Emily Fisher visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia March 6, 2026 on The Infomaniacs. Topics includes the future home of the public works department, current and future projects, and promoting the city's See-Click-Fix app.

This podcast contains comments from the February 17, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members are now required when they want to visit a campus that is not related to attending an activity, to schedule the visit with the superintendent have the superintendent with them. That follows a debate at the February board meeting which resulted in a four to th...

The Destination Bryan tourism office update for March 2026 with Lina Adams and WTAW's Bill Oliver covers the March First Friday lineup in downtown Bryan, spring break reminders, and previews of this month's Troubadour Festival and next month's combined Downtown Art and Street Fair and Wine and Roses Festival at Messina Hof Winery.

Brazos County Commissioner Wanda Watson joined WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, March 5, 2026, to talk about adding more money to renovations at the administration building, paper ballots, citizen engagement, capital projects, and more. 

This podcast contains comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. College Station's police chief and the city council discusses activity in the Northgate district. That was part of chief Billy Couch's overall review of CSPD activity during 2025. Couch told the council at its last meeting (February 26) that the scariest thing they face in the Northgate bar district is...

United Way of the Brazos Valley president Lizett Hawkins and Jonathan Mitchell of UWBV partner agency Adult and Teen Challenge of Brenham visits with WTAW's Bill Oliver on March 2, 2026.

This podcast contains comments from the February 24, 2026 Blinn College board of trustees meeting. Preliminary spring enrollment at all Blinn College campuses is higher compared with 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022. Blinn trustees were told at their February meeting that the latest headcount is 16,264. And registration is still taking place for remaining four and eight week classes. The spring total fo...