WTAW - Interviews

Rachael Altman and Suellen Dunn from the Carnegie History Center visit with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about how the history center was established, genealogy services offered, tours, and more during their appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is a visit recorded July 23, 2025 with Dr. Sean Collins of Texas A&M's veterinary medicine college, who performed surgery on Reveille X, the first lady of Aggieland and A&M's official mascot.  The official mascot of Texas A&M is out of the public spotlight until this fall. Reveille X is recovering from successful surgery. Her right eye was removed due to glaucoma with sign...

This podcast is an edited visit with Brazos Valley Bombers co-owner Uri Geva's visit on The Zone's Louie Belina Show that aired July 22, 2025. Thursday night (July 24) begins the final regular season home stand for the Brazos Valley Bombers baseball team in Bryan. Team co-owner Uri Geva shared on The Zone's Louie Belina Show that this year's operations could not have gone any smoother. Geva also s...

This podcast contains comments from Brazos County congressman Michael McCaul at the beginning of the first hearing on July 22, 2025 of a homeland security committee task force on security issues facing future national special events. Congress launches a new task force to increase security for upcoming special events around the country. The chairman of the task force that is part of the homeland se...

This podcast is a visit with Brazos County commissioner Chuck Konderla and WTAW's Bill Oliver. Further development of a proposed highway to the east of Bryan and College Station might be coming to an end. County commissioner Chuck Konderla, who represents most of the route of the proposed east loop, has placed on next Tuesday's agenda (July 29), terminating the contract with the design firm for th...

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about last week's budget workshop, new fire engines, this week's council meeting agenda, the convention and recreation center feasibility studies, the Texas legislature's special session, students returning, the Brazos Valley Bombers, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the July 10, 2025 College Station city council meeting. For the first time since 2019, the College Station city council approves a future voluntary annexation agreement. The agreement that was approved at the council's July 10th meeting is with the developer of more than 90 single family homes on 50 acres in an area generally bordered by Arrington Road, Nantucke...

This podcast contains comments from the July 15, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD administrators get school board approval to create four more advisory committees. Unanimous votes were made at July's board meeting to form a community advisory committee, a committee that works with CSISD bilingual students and their families, another to work with parents of CSISD s...

This podcast is a visit with Brazos County district attorney Jarvis Parsons and WTAW's Bill Oliver. A Brazos County district court jury has sentenced Larry Bollin to a life prison term for murdering a co-worker in April 2021. Monday's decision (July 21) concluded a six day trial. The 31 year old Iola man is scheduled to be tried in Grimes County next month on a charge of wounding a DPS trooper fol...

This podcast contains comments from the July 15, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. When voters in College Station ISD approved a bond issue in November 2023, that included more than $31 million dollars to move the district's central office. Superintendent Tim Harkrider told board members during their July meeting that three attempts have failed to buy an existing building. Harkrider s...

College Station Councilman Mark Smith visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about this week's budget workshop meeting, funding for the Arts Center of the Brazos Valley and the Brazos County Health District, the Brazos Valley Bombers, Wolf Pen Creek Park, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

In February of 2024, the Bryan city council created a committee to study how to improve customer parking in the downtown area. The committee's latest report was presented during the council's July regular meeting.  There was no council opposition to getting feedback on committee recommendations from downtown stakeholders (business owners, employees, and residents) and visitors to the downtown area...

This podcast contains comments from the July 14, 2025 Texas A&M faculty senate meeting. July's meeting of the Texas A&M faculty senate was the next to last under its original composition. After more than 40 years as an independent organization, Senate Bill 37 (SB 37) takes effect September 1st, placing the faculty senate under the control of the board of regents and the university presiden...

Bryan Councilwoman Marca Ewers-Shurtleff visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about law background, the city budget, a beautification effort in her district, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the July 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. The Brazos County expo complex on Leonard Road is getting $11 million dollars of repairs and upgrades. County commissioners at Tuesday's meeting (July 15) unanimously awarded a $10 million dollar construction contract that includes replacing roofs and floors at the exhibit hall and ballroom, parking lot repairs...

This podcast contains comments from the July 15, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. Public school districts around Texas have or are in the process of developing policies to comply with a new state law banning students from using cell phones and related devices during the school day. College Station ISD administrators told school board members at their July meeting that they will vote...

This podcast contains comments from the July 10, 2025 College Station city council meeting. A part of the process the College Station city council uses in developing their yearly budget is hearing funding requests from outside agencies. Representatives of ten organizations made their pitches and responded to questions during the council's July 10th meeting. Click HERE to read and download presenta...

Bryan Mayor Pro Tem James Edge visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about the Brazos Valley Bombers, the agreement with the new summer baseball team, Travis Field, parking in Downtown Bryan, Phillips Event Center, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the July 10, 2025 College Station city council meeting. From January through April, a 70 member committee studied possible changes in the greater Northgate district, which is north of University between Texas and Wellborn. The study followed last January's vote by the College Station city council to reject an offer to sell the city's Northgate district surface p...

This podcast contains comments from the July 10, 2025 College Station city council meeting. After Texas A&M students return for the fall semester, they and residents within one mile of the campus will be among those who will be asked about possible parking restrictions in residential neighborhoods. That follows a College Station city council discussion that includes a parking ban between two a...

This podcast contains comments of the ceremonial dedication of two new College Station fire department engines on July 15, 2025. Two new College Station fire engines were ceremonially dedicated into service Tuesday morning (July 15). The "pushing-in" event is a throwback to when firefighters had to push wagons with water tanks back into garages following fire calls. One of the new engines is at st...

This podcast is a visit with the general manager of the Wellborn special utility district, Campbell Young, and WTAW's Bill Oliver. The more than 10,000 customers in the Wellborn special utility district (WSUD) are invited to find out about proposed rate increases at Tuesday night's (July 15) board meeting.  General manager Campbell Young says the proposal will be posted on the district's website a...

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 and June 12, 2025 College Station city council meetings. College Station city council members receive updates on its capital improvement and drainage projects. Updates in the capital improvements project presentation included the widening of Rock Prairie Road East, the rehabilitation of Krenek Tap Road and Lincoln Avenue, the three new water we...

Dr. Daniel Oney, Research Director at the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about office space and new development in the College Station-Bryan metro area. 

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 College Station city council meeting. July marks 14 years since a landfill was closed on Rock Prairie Road east of the freeway.  College Station mayor John Nichols said during the council's June 26th meeting that the undeveloped part of the property, where the landfill proper was not built, is being considered as a possible site for a new publi...