The Todd and Oz Show

The City of Austin is considering another property tax rate hike to make up for a $26 million budget deficit, the Austin Police Department has agreed to rework their general orders to avoid millions in state funding cuts and the Austin ISD will pause additional school closures at it moves toward gathering community feedback on district boundaries.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has extended the deadline for the city of Austin to change its police department's policies on cooperating with federal immigration agent, A U.S. Supreme Court appeal is in the works by the families who originally filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas for requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom and special guest & former Te...

Texas is running out of water, and you won't believe the price tag to fix it, as a new report shows that cities across Texas will need to spend 174-billion dollars over the next 50 years to avert a water crisis. Perry Fowler, who heads the Texas water infrastructure network, says that's a huge jump from the previous price tag, the environment was the main focus of a town hall event yesterday where...

A new research center combining medical and technological research is getting a head-start from Michael and Susan Dell as they say the goal of the new investment is to bring together medicine, science, and computing on a single campus designed for the artificial intelligence era, the 5th circuit court concluded the Texas law does not violate the establishment clause or the free exercise clause of...

Congress has passed the mystic alerts act named after Camp Mystic where 25 campers and two counselors were killed in the horrific July fourth flooding, requiring the FFC to encourage mobile service providers to adopt satellite technology to reach those that don't have cell service, girl scouts in central Texas can now earn a new patch designed to help them recognize and protect themselves from onl...

Planned peace talks with Iran are now in jeopardy after the U.S. seized an Iran-marked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, Austin's Community Police Review Commission appears to be split on whether the city should expand public reporting on police interactions with federal immigration agents and the latest poll shows Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gaining momentum over Senator John Cornyn...

A Travis County judge has reissued a temporary injunction blocking camp Mystic from reopening its Guadalupe River grounds anytime soon after a 3 day hearing where judge Maya Guerra Gamble decided to keep the injunction and restraining order in place over camp mystic that she issued back in March, Senator John Cornyn joins the show to discuss his position in the Texas state primaries coming this su...

Changes are coming in the hill country to address last year's historic flooding with a nearly-one-million-dollar contract funding eight outdoor warning sirens along the Guadalupe river in Kerr county as county commissioner Tom Jones says the move marks the most concrete step yet toward a flood warning system that state leaders demanded after last year's deadly flood, the Hays county sheriff's offi...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is opening up an investigation into the city of Austin following changes that were made to the Austin police department's policy on immigration enforcement looking into whether the city has violated senate bill 4, which allows local cooperation with ice agents, and bans local policies from interfering with federal immigration operations. More details are surfacing...

President Trump has revealed negotiations with Iran in Pakistan have broken down after Iran's demand for a nuclear weapon was denied, a south Austin gun store owner is defending two of his employees who were involved in a shooting outside a nightclub on East Seventh Street Friday night and the City of Austin has approved $5 million for CapMetro bus route #2 which will cover things like overti...

The City of Austin has fired multiple high-ranking I.T. employees after learning that they were working for the City of Dallas at the same time, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis says she expects to have an update from the FBI on the mass shooting on Sixth Street and ERCOT is set to begin using artificial intelligence to track data points and find patterns that could warn of an outage as well as trac...

A new poll found that 65-percent of Americans don't want a data center in their community, and a big part of that is the noise as University of Houston professor Ed Hirs says these facilities need huge air conditioners and water pumps to keep the computers cool , The Austin School District has canceled its planned job fair for this week on the heels of news that its projected budget deficit had ba...

Reaction is mixed around Central Texas to President Trump's handling of the situation in Iran. Trump now says he's open to a two-week pause in fighting if Iran allows ships to move freely through the Strait of Hormuz, Tesla has smashed through the benchmarks that were set forth when the company entered into an incentive agreement with Travis county in 2020. Even so, the Travis county commissioners...

The Texas Board of Education will debate the latest changes to the k-12 social studies curriculum with some critics saying it over celebrates Christianity while Texas highways have become the national hub for testing big rigs that are piloted by computers and sensors, and Governor Greg Abbott is facing some online backlash after sharing a photo online appearing to show the aftermath of the rescue...

President Trump has issued a new deadline of Tuesday evening for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to strike power plants and bridges if the waterway remains unlocked, new data shows that over 274,000 students have applied for Texas' new taxpayer funded school choice program as the initial deadline closed and The City of Austin is getting set to move ahead with plans to change...

Four Del Valle High School students are accused of kidnapping and torturing a classmate, the Austin City Council has approved the Downtown Core Transportation Plan that initiates the conversion of several one-way streets to two-way and construction is underway on an affordable housing project for Austin ISD teachers and staff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Texas has become a national leader for data centers, warehouses full of computers, needed for ai research, use a ton of electricity and here in Texas, it's cheap, according to Williamson county state senator Charles Schwertner, The Austin school district continues to struggle with enrollment with enrollment numbers plunge by more than 3000 students this year and two years after causing a bus crash...

A recently built drift track in the Hutto area is raising noise concerns among nearby residents who say they lived in the area long before the track was constructed, City of Austin officials immediately began talking about renaming Cesar Chavez Street. While some councilmembers like Vanessa Fuentes would like to see it renamed after another activist -- Dolores Huerta -- there's a new push to name...

President Trump has threatened to "obliterate" Iran's energy infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened. Recent strikes have hit an oil refinery in Israel and a US air base in Saudi Arabia, injuring service members, after a 44-day wait during a partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, TSA officers have finally begun receiving retroactive paychecks and the Austin ISD has...

The Austin City Council has approved a plan to have new digital kiosks installed in busy areas around Austin to provide real-time transit information, wayfinding tools and emergency information, a rift is growing between Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra and Democrat State Rep. Erin Zweiner over high water-use developments such as A.I. date centers and many Austinites gathered over the weekend at th...

In a rare overnight session, the Senate unanimously moved to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but immigration enforcement components like ICE remain unfunded, Trump delayed potential U.S. strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for another 10 days while warning Tehran to "get serious" in negotiations "before it is too late" and Austin has approved a Homeless Strategies and O...

Austin city leaders hosted the first of a series of discussions over Austin's budget for the next fiscal year, giving the public a chance to voice what they want prioritized, Taylor residents held a press conference to formally push back on a proposed data center ahead of a planned city council meeting regarding the project and a 25 year-old man in Bastrop has been arrested after he began shooting...

Some Austin city leaders are raising concerns about funding the next phase of the proposed I-35 cap and stitch project, Zoox has announced its self-driving taxes will begin service in Austin this week and the Texas Commission on Licensing and Regulation has approved a new rule that will require people to prove that they are in the country legally in order to operate certain businesses. See omnystu...

A mistrial has been declared on the first day of jury selection in the deadly conduct case against Army Sergeant Daniel Perry, transportation officials are hoping to move forward with a proposed expansion of the Mopac expressway as Austinites prepare to weigh in on the project this week and the Capitol Metro Police Department is weighing in on safety on its bus routes in the wake of multiple viole...

Jury selection will begin today in the misdemeanor deadly conduct case against Army sergeant Daniel Perry, who was pardoned in 2024 after a jury convicted him in 2023 of the murder of a protester on July 25, 2020, support is growing to rid the city of Austin of all tributes to Julio Cesar Chavez in the wake of allegations of sexual assault that reportedly happened decades ago and SpaceX and Tesla...