WTAW - Interviews

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...

This podcast contains comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. Predatory towing of vehicles in privately owned parking lots in College Station was discussed during the last city council meeting (February 26). As part of police chief Billy Couch's review of PD activity last year, he shared that the state regulates towing companies and wrecker drivers. Couch brought...

This podcast is a visit with Bryan police officer Seth Waller and WTAW's Bill Oliver. March First Friday activities in downtown Bryan will include an increased police presence. Bryan police officer Seth Waller says the additional attention at a mass gathering like First Friday follows last weekend's mass shooting in downtown Austin's entertainment district and the war in Iran which is a week old....

This podcast contains comments from the March 2, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. The Bryan ISD school board selects the first of what will be several architects that will work on portions of the $397 million dollar bond issue that voters approved in November 2025. The board at its March 2nd meeting, awarded an $89,242 dollar contract to "design and administer construction services" for the ne...

City of College Station public works director Emily Fisher visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia March 6, 2026 on The Infomaniacs. Topics includes the future home of the public works department, current and future projects, and promoting the city's See-Click-Fix app.

This podcast contains comments from the February 17, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members are now required when they want to visit a campus that is not related to attending an activity, to schedule the visit with the superintendent have the superintendent with them. That follows a debate at the February board meeting which resulted in a four to th...

The Destination Bryan tourism office update for March 2026 with Lina Adams and WTAW's Bill Oliver covers the March First Friday lineup in downtown Bryan, spring break reminders, and previews of this month's Troubadour Festival and next month's combined Downtown Art and Street Fair and Wine and Roses Festival at Messina Hof Winery.

Brazos County Commissioner Wanda Watson joined WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, March 5, 2026, to talk about adding more money to renovations at the administration building, paper ballots, citizen engagement, capital projects, and more. 

This podcast contains comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. College Station's police chief and the city council discusses activity in the Northgate district. That was part of chief Billy Couch's overall review of CSPD activity during 2025. Couch told the council at its last meeting (February 26) that the scariest thing they face in the Northgate bar district is...

United Way of the Brazos Valley president Lizett Hawkins and Jonathan Mitchell of UWBV partner agency Adult and Teen Challenge of Brenham visits with WTAW's Bill Oliver on March 2, 2026.

This podcast contains comments from the February 24, 2026 Blinn College board of trustees meeting. Preliminary spring enrollment at all Blinn College campuses is higher compared with 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022. Blinn trustees were told at their February meeting that the latest headcount is 16,264. And registration is still taking place for remaining four and eight week classes. The spring total fo...

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia about the police chief's recent report to the city council, the proposed "sports tourism complex" on city owned land, the recent town hall College Station councilman David White hosted in the Pebble Creek neighborhood, the operation of the Brazos County health district, economic development issues, and more during his appearance o...

This podcast contains comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. In October 2025, a College Station businessowner pitched the city council a public private partnership proposal to build a $55 to $60 million dollar "sports tourism complex". The council at its February 26th meeting unanimously approved a non-binding letter of intent on what could lead to the city provi...

This podcast contains comments from the February 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. Trash talk opened the public comment period at the last College Station city council meeting (February 26). Former councilwoman Linda Harvell, who lives south of the Texas A&M campus, asks the council to do something to remove trash containers from residential streets. Harvell says some renters comp...

This podcast is a visit recorded February 27, 2026 with the retiring co-owners of Readfield Meats & Deli, Larry, Roland, and Richard Ruffino, their cousin J.J. Ruffino, and WTAW's Scott DeLucia. The more than 60 year old family owned and operated Readfield Meats and Deli in Bryan may not be going away. A cousin of the brothers who own the store, J.J. Ruffino, says in response to potential buye...

This podcast is a visit on the next to last day of a 47 year career with Caroline Gleaton of Texas A&M's college of agriculture and WTAW's Bill Oliver. A Texas A&M agriculture college employee in College Station wrapped up a 47 year career Friday (February 27). Caroline Gleaton, for 40 years, is credited with starting and maintaining a database that is used by A&M extension's cotton sp...

City of College Station Assistant Director of Water Stephen Maldonado joined WTAW’s Scott DeLucia to provide updates on water services, offer a reminder on conservation, compare current water usage to levels from 18 years ago, discuss planning for future growth and infrastructure, address rising water prices, drought monitoring, challenges from state and federal government, available irrigation re...

This podcast contains three interviews conducted by WTAW News Director Bill Oliver, the first with Brazos County Republican Party chairman Russ Ford, the second with congressional district 10 Republican candidate Ben Bius, and the third with Brazos County elections administrator Trudy Hancock. Voters in Brazos County's Republican primary election are being warned to proofread their ballots. That's...

This podcast is a visit with a spokesman of the Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial and WTAW alumnus Tom Turbiville and Scott DeLucia on WTAW's The Infomaniacs February 26, 2026. The Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial at College Station's Veterans Park will dedicate its newest statue on Saturday morning (February 28) at 10:30. The new statue, which honors veterans of the Mexican Border Service, is a repr...