WTAW - Interviews

This podcast is a visit with Molly Watson of the Brazos Valley Gives fundraiser and WTAW's Scott DeLucia during the September 2, 2025 The Infomaniacs show. The registration deadline is approaching for non profits to participate in the annual Brazos Valley Gives fundraising event. The seventh annual fundraiser sponsored by the Community Foundation of the Brazos Valley is a month long coordinated ev...

This podcast contains comments from the August 29, 2025 College Station city council meeting. College Station voters could be considering in as soon as the November 2027 election, a $65 to $80 million dollar bond issue to build a recreation center. A majority of College Station council members at Thursday's meeting (August 28) were in favor of finalizing a location and what would a center offer. T...

This podcast contains comments from the August 28, 2025 Texas A&M system board of regents building committee meeting. The Texas A&M system board of regents approves proceeding with the flagship campus's new home of the university's visitors center, prospective student center, and new academic programs. Funding for the $250 million dollar Aplin Center included a $50 million dollar gift in J...

Colin Killian, Director of Public Communications, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the recreation center study, the Amazon drone facility, approving the budget and proposed tax rate, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the August 26, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Six months of attempts by new Brazos County commissioner Fred Brown to end the county's use of Diners Club credit cards is over. At Tuesday's commission meeting (August 26), a unanimous vote was made to use a credit card that pays Brazos County a rebate based on the total amount of charges and how quickly the...

Doug Vance, Executive Director of the Brazos Valley Coalition on Suicide Prevention, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber. 

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 Blinn College trustees meeting. Blinn College trustees again set a property tax rate that requires paying a penalty to the state because the rate is under the minimum of five cents. The rate of 4.38 cents was approved at a special meeting Tuesday (August 26) by a five to one vote. Voting no was Richard O'Malley. Not present for the vote was D...

This podcast contains comments from Brazos County commission meetings on August 19 and August 26, 2025. In 2019, the Texas Transportation Commission approved Brazos County's application to create a regional mobility authority (RMA) that focuses on local transportation projects. At the August 19th county commission meeting, opponents to the east loop highway project called for the RMA to go away. T...

This podcast contains comments from the August 27, 2025 meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents committee on academic and student affairs. The start of the new academic year at the Texas A&M system's 12 universities coincides with a board of regents study into student discipline. The regents committee on academic and student affairs (CASA) launched the study with a 45 minute discu...

Jose Castro, Bryan's Municipal Court Juvenile Case Coordinator, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about trends in juvenile cases, Teen Court, the Youth Advisory Commission, how to sign up, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the August 26, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. The design of a Brazos County office complex and parking garage across Texas Avenue from the courthouse is on hold. That's after county staff asked commissioners to consider adding a fourth floor to the office building and a larger parking area. Commissioners at Tuesday's meeting (August 26) tabled the reques...

This podcast contains comments from the August 26, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. This podcast also corrects the amount of the increase in the property tax rate proposed by Brazos County commissioners associated with their fiscal year 2026 budget. Brazos County commissioners propose a property tax rate increase of one third of one cent. Commissioners cited two factors before the unanimous...

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about the proposed budget and tax rate, development at Midtown Park, expanding Legends Event Center, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is an interview with the city of Bryan's director of development services Martin Zimmerman and WTAW's Bill Oliver. An apartment complex in Bryan being considered for closure due to unsafe living conditions gets a reprieve. A hearing before the city's building standards commission on Monday (August 25) was continued until October 27. The city's director of development services, Martin...

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members decide not to change the district's grievance policy. Chief of staff Sara Goolsby told board members at their August regular meeting that the district had the option to not comply with a new state law. Senate Bill 12 gives parents 60 days to file a grievance in...

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. For the first time in ten years, rental prices are going up at the Brazos Center. Recommendations from Brazos Center manager Joanna Spencer were unanimously approved at the August 19th county commission meeting. Spencer says the prices on contracts already signed for future events will be honored. New prices...

Wayne Pacelle, President of Animal Wellness Action, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber. 

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. In 2022, Brazos County commissioners created a public defender's office to represent adults who cannot afford a lawyer. A state grant helped pay for the initial staff of ten people. Commissioners at this week's meeting (August 19) accepted more state grant money to continue paying a share of keeping the origi...

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 Blinn College board of trustees meeting. On the eve of the new academic year starting at Blinn College, board of trustees members are given an update on the impact of new state laws and procedures. Executive vice chancellor Leighton Schubert said during the August regular meeting of the trustees that almost all fulltime faculty members who ha...

College Station Fire Chief Richard Mann visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the students returning, the amount of equipment dispatched for a car accident, planning for a new fire station, fire truck manufacturers, challenges of vertical development, hiring and recruiting more firefighters, eating at the firehouse, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 College Station ISD school board. College Station ISD school board members adopt a new policy to comply with a new state law regulating the operation of school libraries. The unanimous vote at the August CSISD board meeting included not creating a library advisory committee. The new state law requires the advisory committee if the CSISD board...

Bryan Councilman Kevin Boriskie visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about progress on the budget, tax rates, the success of Legends Event Center, Midtown Lake, Downtown Bryan gameday shuttles, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

State Representative Paul Dyson of Bryan (R-TX) visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about passing the redistricting plan, other states' plans for redistricting, remaining business in the second special session, added agenda items, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the August 12, 2025 Bryan city council workshop meeting. The August workshop meeting of the Bryan city council included a staff presentation about a proposed promotion associated with the city's sponsorship of free shuttle bus service between downtown Bryan and Texas A&M home football games. Deputy city manager Joey Dunn said the "Gameday on Main" concept co...

This podcast is a visit with the executive director of the Bryan/College Station metropolitan planning organization Dan Rudge and WTAW's Bill Oliver. More than $2 million dollars given by the Texas department of transportation (TxDOT) to the Bryan/College Station metropolitan planning organization (MPO) will be spent on two projects in the twin cities. MPO executive director Dan Rudge says the org...