The Todd and Oz Show

There was plenty of anger at the Taylor city council meeting last night after city officials announced that a citizen-led petition trying to restrict future data center development could not move forward, over $100,000 has been spent by the city of Austin since October removing graffiti and a new homeless navigation center operated by the local nonprofit We Can Now is opening in north Austin. See...

State senator Charles Perry is vowing to introduce another bill next legislative session to fully ban THC in Texas, and that's leaving a lot of business owners feeling even more uncertain about their future as Estella Castro owns Austinite Cannabis Co on Cesar Chavez and she tells cbs austin she opened her store soon after state lawmakers approved new hemp laws back in 2019 and she says there have...

The city of Austin has already taken down multiple murals to come into compliance with a new order from governor Greg Abbott that prohibits political street art, and now the rainbow crosswalks at places like Fourth and Colorado are next in line to be painted over, the city of Austin has opened the application window for millions of dollars in grant funding for local artists and musicians as $23-mi...

The City of Austin says hundreds of tons of trash and debris have been cleaned out of homeless camps as part of a new homeless camp management initiative that started back in May, multiple agencies are investigating a deadly shooting that happened over the weekend at a bar in north Austin and President Trump is meeting NATO leaders today at a summit in Turkey. See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

The City of Austin has completed a recent order from Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Transportation directing cities to remove political street art, a violent weekend in Austin has police investigating multiple deadly shootings and President Trump held a press conference for the formal launch of Trump Accounts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Governor Greg Abbott is calling for a moratorium on new data center construction, an Austin priest continues to recover after being stabbed in the neck multiple times by a waiter at a downtown steak house and Austin Councilwoman Paige Ellis is gathering petition signatures in order to run for a third term. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Workers employed by Keolis, the company that operates transit services for capmetro, have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike if contract negotiations fail to produce a new labor agreement, Governor Abbott was in east Texas rolling out his latest property tax plan that he claims will cut your yearly bill in half forever while Democratic senate hopeful James Talarico is calling the decision...

Texas attorney general and republican senate candidate Ken Paxton has issued a response to the latest slam by democrat opponent James Talarico, who recently accused Paxton of not being Texas enough, and being too bogged down by corruption to represent the state of Texas in the senate, Austin's potholes are more than just a nuisance as they can damage cars and cost taxpayers an average of $1,300 to...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, the Texas State Board of Education has officially passed a revised reading list that includes passages from the Bible and the Austin school district is delaying its district-wide school boundary realignment for another year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The addition of biblical stories into the public school curriculum is expected to come up for a vote today by the Texas State Board of Education, Texas is seeing a higher birth rate compared to the rest of the country and Save Austin Now's Matt Mackoviak joins the show to discuss the option for voters to approve an external city audit this fall. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The owners of Camp Mystic filed for bankruptcy in Houston early this morning as they claim debt in excess of $10-million, with assets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars… 27 girls from the camp were killed last year in the July 4th flooding, Austin police have been busy this month investigating several homicides, the most recent of which happened just yesterday in southeast Austin which...

Central Texas residents urging local leaders to take a tougher stance on proposed data centers got a response this week in Hays county, where commissioners approved what they called one of the strongest industrial high-water resolutions in Texas, Travis county district attorney Jose Garza has caught the attention of the lawmakers in the nation's capital as congressmen chip roy and Jim Jordan are a...

Patrick Osborn and Brad Swayle in studio today with Todd out, discussing the FIFA World Cup, the Texas Education Agency proposing a new social studies curriculum to be implemented into the public schools with information involving stories from the bible that have historical evidence, Iranian authorities say they will not allow nuclear inspections into their country as part of the peace deal with t...

Vice President JD Vance told reporters in Switzerland that inspectors could be in Iran as soon as this week as negotiations with Iran resumed after a pause over the weekend, the Texas State Board of Education will meet this week to vote on a new controversial social studies curriculum and Austin Police have ruled that a shooting in southeast Austin that left a husband and wife dead was a murder-su...

Sweden's Foreign Ministry has announced that planned talks between the U-S and Iran have been postponed, new details in the investigation of a south Texas plane crash reveal the pilot radioed the tower before the crash, stating there were mechanical issues with the plane and the Austin City Auditor's Office says in a new report that more than a half-dozen Austin Energy employees violated city poli...

The Austin city council's quest for density is causing some concern for at least one member of the city's zoning and platting commission. Lonny Stern represents district 3 on the commission and he says the city should force large housing developments to create public walkways through them so people don't have to walk all the way around them while critics of such an idea says allowing the public to...

Austin police are investigating the deaths of a man and a woman in southeast Austin as officer Austin Zarling says there were multiple calls made to 911 asking about a welfare check of a husband and wife at a home in the 4700 block of Oltorf saying the 911 calls were placed just before 3:15 p.m., but officers didn't actually arrive at the house until 6:20 p.m. , new restrictions on what Texans can...

 Texas ranchers may be holding back on reporting screwworm infestations out of fear of the federal government's response as Robin Giles has been working the 13-thousand-acre hillingdon ranch in the hill country for 70 years that’s been in his family for over 130 years saying he's seen it all, including screwworms, the city of Austin is looking for a contractor to help out with the task...

The US and Iran have struck a framework deal as Trump heads to the G7. Oil prices had already fallen sharply in anticipation of the deal, and Trump posted that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen after the deal is signed, Texas Governor Greg Abbott laid out the GOP's agenda going forward at the Republican state convention in Houston and education experts are watching closely to see whether recen...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is trying to protect homeowners from surging power bills connected to new data centers, the City of Austin is considering a partnership with Travis County to expand fare-free public transit in the fall's general election and Karmelo Anthony has filed an appeal in his murder conviction while also telling the court he cannot afford an attorney and must be appointed one. Se...

While cities and counties across the state debate moratoriums on data center growth, Governor Abbott calls for more regulations on them as he directed the public utility commission and ERCOT to to require data centers to add power generation to the grid, to require them to pay their own infrastructure costs and to lower residential ratepayer costs, the shakeup continues in Texas education as publi...

The city of Austin has put out a warning after potentially toxic blue-green algae mats were spotted floating on some local waterways as officials say thick mats of algae have been seen at red bud isle on lady bird lake, and at the walsh boat landing on Lake Austin, The city of Austin is on the hunt for a new organization to take over operations for the overnight cold weather shelters, as they're o...

Democrat Texas gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa held a press conference at the capitol this week to announce the creation of a new effort aimed at public schools as she says her "team texas public schools" initiative will train teachers, parents, and administrators to fight against school closures, especially in areas of the state she says are being hit the hardest, are roundabouts the answer...

Nearly a year after floods destroyed much of the Sandy Creek area, heavy rainfall caused major flooding Friday night and destroyed an animal sanctuary, President Trump says he had a tense exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over strikes in Iran, and prosecutors have rested their case in the murder trial of Karmelo Anthony See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...

Critics are slamming Austin Mayor Kirk Watson for taking a trip to Manchester as the city struggles to fund basic city services while also facing a $33 million budget deficit, a parent at an Austin Montessori school accidentally put a THC lollipop in a goodie bag for students and the Austin School Board got their first look at a proposed $181 million budget reduction plan. See omnystudio.com/liste...