WTAW - Interviews

This podcast contains comments from the August 27, 2025 meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents committee on academic and student affairs. The start of the new academic year at the Texas A&M system's 12 universities coincides with a board of regents study into student discipline. The regents committee on academic and student affairs (CASA) launched the study with a 45 minute discu...

Jose Castro, Bryan's Municipal Court Juvenile Case Coordinator, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about trends in juvenile cases, Teen Court, the Youth Advisory Commission, how to sign up, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the August 26, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. The design of a Brazos County office complex and parking garage across Texas Avenue from the courthouse is on hold. That's after county staff asked commissioners to consider adding a fourth floor to the office building and a larger parking area. Commissioners at Tuesday's meeting (August 26) tabled the reques...

This podcast contains comments from the August 26, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. This podcast also corrects the amount of the increase in the property tax rate proposed by Brazos County commissioners associated with their fiscal year 2026 budget. Brazos County commissioners propose a property tax rate increase of one third of one cent. Commissioners cited two factors before the unanimous...

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about the proposed budget and tax rate, development at Midtown Park, expanding Legends Event Center, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is an interview with the city of Bryan's director of development services Martin Zimmerman and WTAW's Bill Oliver. An apartment complex in Bryan being considered for closure due to unsafe living conditions gets a reprieve. A hearing before the city's building standards commission on Monday (August 25) was continued until October 27. The city's director of development services, Martin...

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members decide not to change the district's grievance policy. Chief of staff Sara Goolsby told board members at their August regular meeting that the district had the option to not comply with a new state law. Senate Bill 12 gives parents 60 days to file a grievance in...

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. For the first time in ten years, rental prices are going up at the Brazos Center. Recommendations from Brazos Center manager Joanna Spencer were unanimously approved at the August 19th county commission meeting. Spencer says the prices on contracts already signed for future events will be honored. New prices...

Wayne Pacelle, President of Animal Wellness Action, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber. 

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. In 2022, Brazos County commissioners created a public defender's office to represent adults who cannot afford a lawyer. A state grant helped pay for the initial staff of ten people. Commissioners at this week's meeting (August 19) accepted more state grant money to continue paying a share of keeping the origi...

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 Blinn College board of trustees meeting. On the eve of the new academic year starting at Blinn College, board of trustees members are given an update on the impact of new state laws and procedures. Executive vice chancellor Leighton Schubert said during the August regular meeting of the trustees that almost all fulltime faculty members who ha...

College Station Fire Chief Richard Mann visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the students returning, the amount of equipment dispatched for a car accident, planning for a new fire station, fire truck manufacturers, challenges of vertical development, hiring and recruiting more firefighters, eating at the firehouse, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the August 19, 2025 College Station ISD school board. College Station ISD school board members adopt a new policy to comply with a new state law regulating the operation of school libraries. The unanimous vote at the August CSISD board meeting included not creating a library advisory committee. The new state law requires the advisory committee if the CSISD board...

Bryan Councilman Kevin Boriskie visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about progress on the budget, tax rates, the success of Legends Event Center, Midtown Lake, Downtown Bryan gameday shuttles, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

State Representative Paul Dyson of Bryan (R-TX) visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about passing the redistricting plan, other states' plans for redistricting, remaining business in the second special session, added agenda items, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the August 12, 2025 Bryan city council workshop meeting. The August workshop meeting of the Bryan city council included a staff presentation about a proposed promotion associated with the city's sponsorship of free shuttle bus service between downtown Bryan and Texas A&M home football games. Deputy city manager Joey Dunn said the "Gameday on Main" concept co...

This podcast is a visit with the executive director of the Bryan/College Station metropolitan planning organization Dan Rudge and WTAW's Bill Oliver. More than $2 million dollars given by the Texas department of transportation (TxDOT) to the Bryan/College Station metropolitan planning organization (MPO) will be spent on two projects in the twin cities. MPO executive director Dan Rudge says the org...

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the proposed tax rate, other budget items, an upcoming report on the recreation center study, development in the midtown area, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is a visit with Debbie Albert of the Texas A&M system Transportation Institute and WTAW's Bill Oliver. Before the Texas A&M football season opens, traffic patterns before and after home games have been reviewed. Debbie Albert at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute listed the following gameday traffic changes during a presentation this month at the Bryan/College Station...

THis podcast contains comments from the August 18, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council will take public comments August 28th about setting the proposed property tax rate for the 2026 fiscal year budget at the highest level without requiring a public vote. The council can lower the rate but can not increase it. What received council consensus at their August...

Kathleen Sanderson visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about changes to this year's tutoring program, how kids can participate, the Salvation Army's clothing closet, other outreach programs, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

College Station Councilman William Wright visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about his kids going back to school, repealing the overoccupancy ordinance, the proposed property tax rate, a future convention center, the Wolf Pen Creek area, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the August 12, 2025 Bryan city council workshop meeting. The Bryan city council receives its third annual report from the operators of the city owned Legends Events Center. General manager Jamie Cox says since opening in December of 2022, there have been 635,000 users. Councilmembers were also told there have been 79 special events, 279 meetings and parties, alm...

This podcast contains two interviews...with Brazos County juvenile services volunteer and mentor coordinator Cornelius Gray and with the CEO of the Arts Center of the Brazos Valley, Leslie Bowlin. Since 2008, the Arts Center of the Brazos Valley (ACBV) has led a summertime arts project involving teenagers who are residents at the Brazos County juvenile services center. This summer's project was pa...

This podcast contains comments from the July 24, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The annual report from the landfill agency co owned by the cities of College Station and Bryan to the College Station city council included updates on multiple projects. The deputy director of the Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency (BVSWMA) brought up the expanding drilling of wells at Twin Oaks la...