The Todd and Oz Show

The Austin ISD school board will be presented this evening with a plan to cut $181-million-dollars from the next year's budget to address a massive deficit as superintendent Matias Segura highlighted several of the planned cuts yesterday, including 558 district roles. he says that all employees with teaching certifications will be given alternate placements, while the district is working to find r...

The group behind a charter petition that would force regular external audits onto the city of Austin believes it has enough signatures to get that petition on the November ballot. Save Austin Now has officially handed those signatures over to the Austin city clerk as the petition requires the city of Austin to complete an external audit within a year of its passage, and to review its budget every...

The Austin police department has launched an investigation into the death of a man who was found stuffed in a trash can over the weekend as APD says they were called to the area around Packsaddle pass and Ben White on Saturday for a welfare check, and officers arrived on scene and found the man -- identified as 59-year-old duc vo -- who they say was "clearly deceased.” , Two men from Houston...

Some small business owners along South Congress are voicing their concerns about Austin's light rail project, Democrat Rep. Greg Casar is calling for a new tax on artificial intelligence companies as a way to combat potential mass unemployment that could come from A.I. technology and Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico held a rally in Leander yesterday to try and lure voters over to his side...

 A NEW TEXAS LAW REQUIRING APP STORES TO GET PARENTAL CONSENT FROM USERS UNDER 13 YEARS OLD WILL NOW BE ALLOWED TO GO INTO EFFECT, THANKS TO A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT. YESTERDAY WAS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR AUSTIN ISD, AND IT ALSO MARKED THE END OF AN ERA FOR SEVERAL SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT. AUSTIN CITY MANAGER T.C. BROADNAX HAS GOTTEN THE DIRECTIVE FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TO DEVELOP NEW RECOMM...

Legislation is on the way to regulate collegiate sports spending and transfers as the 'protect college sports act', written by Texas senator Ted Cruz and Washington democrat Maria Cantwell would hand the NCAA an antitrust exemption to enforce a series of rules that have been challenged in court over the past few years, limiting athletes to a one-time transfer without penalty, limit eligibility to...

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is the big winner in the lone star state's bitter republican senate primary battle, which spanned for more than a year and became the most expensive senate primary in history as Paxton, who was endorsed by donald trump just one week ago, convincingly defeated longtime GOP senator John Cornyn in the runoff election for the republican nomination, in the wake of alle...

Central Texas Gun Works Owner Michael Cargill joins the show, the Austin ISD has moved its budget discussion to June 4th, claiming they need more time to come up with solutions to address the projected $181 million budget deficit and Flock Safety is hoping to convince the Austin City Council to lift the ban on automated license plate readers in the wake of the shooting spree this past weekend. See...

Texas Attorney General candidate Mayes Middleton joins the show, the Austin City Council will vote today on annexing a four square-mile piece of land in east Austin for new infrastructure and Austin cyclists gathered this week for the "Ride of Silence", an annual event hosted by the Austin Ghost Bike Project to honor the lives of people who have been hurt or killed on local roadways while calling...

President Trump has endorsed current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary for Cornyn's seat, the city of Austin has purchased 50 acres of park land in south Austin and a decline in public school enrollment is predicted to be bigger than expected, Texas could lose 100,000 students by the year 2030. See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Three people and two suspects are dead after a shooting at a mosque in San Diego yesterday morning, the owner of Central Texas Gun Works, Michael Cargill, has told reporters the gun used in the weekend shooting spree involving three teens in south Austin was stolen from his store and a new Texas Senate poll shows both Republican candidates John Cornyn and Ken Paxton are deadlocked against Democrat...

Three teens have been arrested in connection to a shooting spree in south Austin over the weekend, the Austin City Council is discussing scaling back the I-35 cap and stitch project and parents in the Pflugerville school district are upset after district leaders voted to close four elementary schools to address an 11$ million deficit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interrogations between the US and Cuba intensify as Cuba's oil shortage worsens, Caldwell county is calling for state intervention to regulate the development of data centers in Texas, and amidst school under-enrollment, Pflugerville ISD is closing four elementary schools. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Governor Greg Abbott has expanded his latest crime reduction initiative as he originally rolled out the Texas repeat offender task force in Houston in October, and now he's expanding it to include Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, and here in Austin, and Austin renters may have more bargaining power than they’ve had in years, as hundreds of apartment complexes across the city offer incentives...

Former Austin councilman Greg Casar held a press conference yesterday to demand the release of 18-year-old Luis Fernando Cabrera -- an illegal alien who attended northeast early college high school before being detained recently by ICE agents, five people have been arrested for allegedly robbing a teenager at gunpoint in Leander as the victim says a white suv approached him carrying the four other...

Former Austin city councilman Greg Casar will be in Austin today to demand the release of a northeast early college high school student who was detained by ice recently after being pulled over for an expired registration, state health officials have temporarily waived the hard-wired internet requirement for summer camps and an appeals court has reinstated an injunction stopping the ban on stores f...

President Trump is threatening Iran again after U-S forces carried out strikes on military facilities in retaliation for an attack in the Strait of Hormuz, Austin ISD is updating how it plans to deal with a $181 million budget deficit, including increasing class sized in second through fifth grade and reducing planning time for teachers and the CDC is tracking two cruise passengers in Texas w...

The central Texas regional mobility authority is proposing a big expansion of mopac from downtown to Slaughter lane, which would add two new toll lanes in an effort to alleviate the major congestion through the corridor, but critics aren't satisfied, after last night's meeting of Austin's environmental commission where multiple people showed up to slam the proposal over environmental concerns, Cal...

Activists are slamming the homeless strategy office's latest plan to clear out homeless camps around Austin after homeless strategy officer David Gray says they have created an updated process with a goal of reducing health and safety risks while also connecting homeless people with services including increased camp cleanings by some members of the Austin police department would establish six dedi...

Sexual assault victim services provided by the safe alliance in austin are set to end in june because of a lack of funding after CEO Pierre Baristain says there is currently no plan for victims once the services are terminated, but that safe alliance could continue helping if it raises $1.5-million-dollars as he tells CBS Austin they've lost about $5.6-million in funding, Texas prisons are under a...

The Austin City Council will consider a settlement with an Austin couple who had their home damaged by Austin police and Department of Public Safety S.W.A.T. officers after initially claiming immunity and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal representation, Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza has hired defense attorneys ahead of an upcoming misconduct hearing and a Travis Coun...

The Austin Board of Realtors is out with a new report claiming the city of Austin's H.OM.E. initiative is working at reducing housing costs, Camp Mystic has decided to pull their application for an operating license and will not open this summer after days of contentious public hearings and the city of Austin has released its long-term financial forecast, which could lead to a modest surplus in 20...

The city of Austin is preparing to ramp up homeless encampment sweeps in the coming weeks as a proposal outlines targeted cleanups across the city, but it’s already drawing criticism from activists who say the approach risks doing more harm than good like Eli Cortez with the group "Vocal TX" tells KVUE the police department is causing a lot of fear among the homeless community, which makes i...

State lawmakers and the camp leaders are debating at the state capitol over whether Camp Mystic should be allowed to reopen its Cypress Lake campus this summer, Camp Mystic director Edward Eastland was the first to address the house and senate committees about what led to the tragic deaths of the 27 girls in the flood and investigators concluded the camp leaders failed to follow national weather s...

State lawmakers got a breakdown from their independent investigator as to what went wrong at camp mystic, causing the flood deaths of 25 campers and two counselors as members of the state house and senate flood investigation committees heard a minute by minute breakdown of the failures of camp leadership including not heeding national weather service warnings ahead of the July 4th floods, or havin...