WTAW - Interviews

This podcast contains comments from the June 27, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council supports the initial concept from staff to add amenities at Wolf Pen Creek Park. The presentation from parks and recreation director Kelsey Heiden included amphitheater seating, a shaded area behind the seating, a pavilion/shelter area, an updated restroom, a dedicated area...

This podcast contains comments from the June 24, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. The Brazos County sheriff's and all four constable offices are getting $18 million dollars of new technology. That's the cost of a ten year contract that was unanimously approved at this week's (June 24) county commission meeting. The purchase includes tasers, in car and body cameras, drones, accessories, train...

This podcast contains comments from the June 26, 2025 College Station city council meeting and the June 24, 2025 Bryan city council meeting. A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that reduces the amount of water being exported out of Brazos and Robertson counties. In June 2024, the Texas A&M system, joined later by the cities of College Station and Bryan and Brazos County, filed the suit...

Kelsey Heiden, Parks and Recreation Director, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about improving Wolf Pen Creek Park, the annual report given to council this week, Texas Independence Park, city swimming pools, the recreation feasibility study, the "I Heart America" celebration, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 4, 2025 Bryan city council meeting. A three time candidate for the Bryan city council who ran following his opposition for moving the municipal golf course and turning that land into Midtown Park has died. Patrick Giammalva was a regular public speaker during council meetings the last eight years. He ran for Bryan mayor in 2019 and Bryan council in 2022...

Bryan Firefighter Chris Lamb visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about summer weather, firework safety, heat safety, hydration advice, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, June 26, 2025.

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Concerts could be coming to the Northgate promenade. That's after the College Station city council approved an agreement giving money to the Arts Center of the Brazos Valley if ACBV is successful in receiving a grant that the city is not eligible to apply for. Assistant tourism director Jeremiah Cook said g...

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the proposed water agreement with the Brazos Valley Groundwater Conservation District, a report on Wolf Pen Creek, the upcoming city council agenda, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. For the fourth time, Brazos County commissioners are being asked to replace a 14 year old telephone system. Chief information officer Eric Caldwell told WTAW News that there are more than 1,100 phone numbers that the public can call. And Caldwell told commissioners that there six remaining lines that could be a...

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council agrees to pursue a state grant that if awarded, would pay for 80 percent of doing a study of potential pedestrian and bicyclist safety improvements in the Northgate district. Public works director Emily Fisher said the grant addresses one of the concerns of a citizens group...

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members and administrators starts the process of changing campus boundaries of elementary, intermediate, and middle school campuses. CSISD chief financial officer Heather Wilson reported at Tuesday's meeting (June 17) that some campus buildings have too many students, ot...

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. At the end of March, 150 volunteers with the Bryan/College Station chamber of commerce gathered information about the local economy from representatives of 679 businesses and manufacturers. Results of this year's chamber day survey were shared at this week's Brazos County commission meeting. Chamber president G...

This podcast contains comments from the June 16, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD employees on the district's health insurance are again discouraged to no use freestanding emergency room clinics. The subject was brought up during Monday night's (June 16) school board meeting. During the public hearing on the 2025-26 school year budget, board members and administrators talked about th...

Bryan Councilman Ray Arrington visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about his accomplishments during his time on council, keeping his district relevant, attracting growth, engaging with his constituents, the committees he serves on, Juneteenth, townhall meetings, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is the Texas A&M system's retirement reception program for chancellor John Sharp that was held June 18, 2025. Below is the order of the speakers and the time on the recording each person starts their remarks. Emcee was Texas A&M system's Stephanie Bjune. (1:09) Soon to retire system deputy chancellor and chief financial officer Billy Hamilton (8:36) System general counsel Ray...

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 Blinn College board of trustees meeting. Records are not available for the last time that Blinn College's largest campus by enrollment was not in Bryan. But that was the case during the spring semester. Headcount in Bryan was 3,980. Ten years ago, Bryan enrollment was more than 12,000. Blinn's largest spring enrollment was the number of online...

Bryan Councilwoman Marca Ewers-Shurtleff visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the water rights lawsuit, Texas water law, existing water well production, development at Midtown Park, the city budget, Bryan ISD, upcoming events, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Almost three hours of last Thursday's College Station city council meeting was a discussion about what they could do to make housing more affordable. No decisions were made, as the council also recognizes the continuing work by a citizen committee on that subject. Much of the time was devoted to whether imp...

This podcast contains comments from the May 27, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County's interest income during the first quarter of the 2025 calendar year was $4,245,341.42. That amount drew the attention of a speaker during the public comment portion of the county commission's May 27th meeting. Responding to a question of how the interest income will be spent, county auditor Katie...

This podcast contains comments from Texas A&M associate provost of faculty advocacy Claire Katz at the June 9, 2025 A&M faculty senate meeting. October 2024 began the work of the first person at Texas A&M to take on the new role of Associate Provost of Faculty Advocacy. Dr. Claire Katz shared her first eight months on the job at the June meeting of the A&M faculty senate. Katz, who...

State Representative Paul Dyson visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about his first legislative session, the committees he serves on, his response to Bryan ISD board member David Stasny's comments about public school funding, impact fees, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The penalty for College Station residents who leave out their trash containers near the street too long is changing. The city council voted five to one at their last meeting (June 12) to support a staff recommendation to impose a fee of $25.50 that is added to a customer's utility bill. Councilman David Whi...

This podcast contains comments from the June 10, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. There will be a fourth year that Brazos County commissioners hire someone to write grant applications. The contract is part of the budget that was approved before two new commissioners were elected last November. One of the new commissioners, Fred Brown, questioned how $48,000 dollars was spent during the first...

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The lone speaker during the public comment portion of last Thursday's College Station city council meeting (June 12) asked that the city cemetery ordinance be re-interpreted. Lisa Burton wants to place in her mother's columbarium, the ashes of her late mother's cat. Burton says while the city ordinance says...

Spokeswoman Kathleen Sanderson visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about a school supplies drive, work the ministry team is doing this summer, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.