WTAW - Interviews

City of Bryan Mayor Pro Tem James Edge joined Will Welch on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, March 19, 2026, to discuss new and future improvements at Midtown Park, the upcoming Troubadour Festival, Flock cameras, and more. 

Brazos County Sheriff Wayne Dicky joined Will Welch on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, March 19, 2026,  to discuss employment opportunities, the disappearance of Nikki Winder, the return of a Brazos County Crime Stoppers fundraising event, Flock cameras, and more. 

This podcast contains comments from College Station ISD superintendent Tim Harkrider at the March 17, 2026 CSISD school board meeting. The March regular meeting of the College Station ISD school board was supposed to include recommendations from the district's budget committee for the next school year. But board members were told that will come in April. Superintendent Tim Harkrider says the delay...

This podcast contains comments from the March 10, 2026 Bryan city council meeting. More than one hour was spent at the March regular meeting of Bryan city council on a rezoning request. In June 2022, a Bryan non profit agency received a conditional use permit to operate a professional office east of downtown Bryan for counseling services. Made Well Ministries later expanded services on adjacent pr...

This podcast is a visit with Brazos County tax assessor-collector Melissa Leonard and WTAW's Bill Oliver. Employees at the Brazos County tax office fielded phone calls Wednesday (March 18) from property owners who say they have received text messages that tax assessor-collector Melissa Leonard says they did not send. The text message refers to an upcoming auction of properties with delinquent taxe...

College Station Mayor Pro Tem William Wright joined WTAW's Will Welch on The Infomaniacs on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, to discuss the city's economic development plan, water, the firefighter's union, upcoming city events, and more. 

United Way of the Brazos Valley president Lizett Hawkins and the executive director of UWBV partner agency Faith Mission in Brenham Randy Wells visits with WTAW's Bill Oliver on March 17, 2026.

This podcast is a visit with Bethany Dennis at American Airlines and WTAW's Bill Oliver. Local fans of Texas A&M football have the opportunity to fly non stop to two road games in the 2026 season. Bethany Dennis at American Airlines, who graduated from A&M in 2019, says reservations are available for direct flights from Easterwood Airport to and from Birmingham for the Alabama game and to...

This podcast contains comments from the March 10, 2026 Brazos County commission meeting. The city of College Station asked Brazos County commissioners to not use city hall as a voting center for the primary runoff election's early voting period.  County commissioners at their March 10th meeting decided to not move as offered by the city to the Meyer center on Dartmouth next to Wolf Pen Creek Park....

This podcast contains comments from Bryan deputy city manager Hugh Walker at the March 10, 2026 city council workshop meeting. It's been just over one year since Bryan firefighters had to move out of the station that is located across Texas Avenue from Davila middle school. At the city council's March 10th meeting, unanimous approval was given to award a $309,900 dollar contract that deputy city m...

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...