WTAW - Interviews

College Station Utilities energy coordinator Patrick McIntyre visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on Friday, January 23rd, to discuss preparations ahead of winter storm Fern and looking ahead to prepare for warmer weather.

This podcast contains comments from the January 20, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting. In November 2023, voters in College Station ISD approved a bond issue that included $31 million dollars to buy and renovate an existing building for a new central administration office and renovate the current building. Last November, the CSISD school board decided to build a new central office after...

This podcast contains comments from the January 14, 2026 meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents committee on academics and student affairs. The day when Texas A&M remembers Aggies who have died, Muster on April 21st, will also be the day of a first ever student civil discourse symposium. Click HERE to read and download photos of the slideshow presentation at the January 14, 2026...

BCS Library System Director Bea Saba visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on Thursday, January 22nd, to talk about the 2026 Author Series, which will bring 11 authors to the Bryan–College Station libraries—one each month—with Jenny Lawson kicking off the series. 

This podcast comes from the December 9, 2025 Bryan city council workshop meeting. The city of Bryan's flood notification system that motorists see at low water crossings now has an online feature. The developer of the webpage floodwatch.bryantx.gov , Jacob Torres, introduced the webpage to the Bryan city council during a December workshop meeting. Among other things, users can monitor rainfall amo...

This podcast contains comments from the January 20, 2026 Blinn College trustees meeting. January's regular meeting of the Blinn College trustees included an introduction of the new vice chancellor of academic affairs. Dr. April Kinkead (KINCAID) spent the last three and a half years as Blinn's dean of humanities. Before that, Kinkead was a Blinn faculty member who served three terms as president o...

This podcast contains comments from the January 12, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD school board members get an update on the district's bilingual services during its January 12th meeting. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the BISD board's January 12, 2026 meeting. Topics included the BISD administration's plans to consolidate how Spanish speaking pre-kinde...

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia to discuss utility expenses, raised medians, potential changes to new and existing routes in College Station, impact fees related to infrastructure, upcoming events, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs on Wednesday, January 21, 2026. 

This podcast is a recording of the Aiden Ross Day program at the city of College Station's tourism building on January 20, 2026. The winner of season 28 of The Voice received proclamations from mayor John Nichols and state representative Paul Dyson of Bryan. That was followed by Ross performing three songs, finishing with one Ross said had no title and was composed four days ago.

This podcast contains comments from the January 13, 2026 Bryan city council meeting. The cost of the Bryan Midtown Park's signature playground increases by $361,596 dollars. That's after the city council at its January 13th meeting approved additions as presented by special projects director Frank Clark, which includes: Train Caboose Climber connected to original train engine 12’X12’ Cool Topper a...

This podcast contains comments from the January 14, 2026 meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents committee on academic and student affairs. The Texas A&M system board of regents committee on academic and student affairs (CASA) brought up ten topics during a meeting on the flagship campus last week (January 14). The final two and a half minutes was taken on one topic related to cam...

This podcast contains comments from the January 8, 2026 College Station city council meeting. A College Station city council majority approves spending grant money to buy a home to be renovated as a rental for low-income residents. The council's six to one vote followed councilwoman Melissa McIlhaney's attempt to use the grant money to buy and renovate the three bedroom home for future sale to a l...

This podcast contains comments from Bryan city manager Andrew Nelson at the January 13, 2026 city council meeting. The January 2026 report to the Bryan city council of capital and parks projects included some completions, some making progress, and some to initiate. Click HERE to read and download Bryan city manager Andrew Nelson's report to the city council on January 13, 2026. Among the items rep...

This podcast contains comments from the January 12, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD school board members are told $397 million dollars of bond funded projects approved by voters last November will take four years to complete. A timeline given by deputy superintendent Brian Merrell at the board's January 12th meeting shows action will be taken in February to consider multiple archite...

Kathleen Sanderson with the Bryan/College Station Salvation Army visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about upcoming events on The Infomaniacs, January 19, 2026.

Actor Richard Thomas previews his upcoming OPAS performances as Mark Twain with WTAW's Will Welch on The Infomaniacs, January 19, 2026. Click HERE for more information about the OPAS performances of Mark Twain Tonight!

This podcast contains comments from the January 15, 2026 College Station city council meeting. Since June 2020, there has not been a psychiatric hospital serving the Brazos Valley. That need was brought up at the last College Station city council meeting. Councilmembers directed staff to contact officials in Bryan, Brazos County, and Texas A&M to possibly partner to address the lack of mental...

This podcast contains comments from the January 14, 2026 Texas A&M system board of regents meeting of the committee on academics and student affairs (CASA). The first week of spring semester classes at Texas A&M included an on-campus meeting of the board of regents committee on academics and student affairs (CASA). Vice chancellor of academic affairs James Hallmark says artificial intellig...

This podcast is a visit with the new president/CEO of the Greater Brazos Partnership (GBP) economic development agency Tom Johnson, GBP board chairman Jeremy Osborne, and WTAW's Bill Oliver. There is a new leader of the Bryan based Greater Brazos Partnership (GBP) economic development agency. Tom Johnson, who starts February first, most recently led a five state, 36 county economic development org...

College Station Mayor Pro-Tem William Wright visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia to share updates on the Pebble Creek Parkway extension, future of data centers in College Station, future of the city-owned Macy’s building, city council's recent approval of budget amendments, future development in the Northgate District, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs on Friday, January 16, 2026. 

This podcast contains comments from the January 12, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. New lights are coming to Bryan ISD's Merrill Green stadium. The Bryan ISD school board at Monday's meeting (January 12) unanimously voted to take the lowest price of about $224,000 dollars for lighting with a ten year warranty.  Board members instructed administrators to ask the manufacturer for a longer warra...

Bryan city councilwoman Marca Ewers-Shurtleff visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia January 15, 2026. Topics include the Bryan fire department's proposal to change their work schedule, economic development items from the recent council meeting, development north of the Northgate district, the status of the yet to be completed entertainment complex in Midtown Park, and items of interest to her constitue...

Brazos County District Attorney Jarvis Parsons visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia January 15, 2026. The conversation includes a preview of the upcoming "DA In A Day" event and his involvement on statewide domestic violence task forces.

This podcast contains comments from the January 13, 2026 Bryan city council workshop meeting. The Bryan city council had questions, but expressed no opposition, to a request by a committee of Bryan firefighters to change their work schedule. There was a 60 minute discussion at Tuesday's council workshop meeting (January 13) to change the schedule of working 24 hours followed by two days off, to wo...

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez's visits with Scott DeLucia on WTAW's The Infomaniacs included a review of the January 13th city council meeting. Those topics included the fire department's proposal to change firefighter schedules and ongoing projects at Midtown Park.