WTAW - Interviews

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. For the fourth time, Brazos County commissioners are being asked to replace a 14 year old telephone system. Chief information officer Eric Caldwell told WTAW News that there are more than 1,100 phone numbers that the public can call. And Caldwell told commissioners that there six remaining lines that could be a...

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council agrees to pursue a state grant that if awarded, would pay for 80 percent of doing a study of potential pedestrian and bicyclist safety improvements in the Northgate district. Public works director Emily Fisher said the grant addresses one of the concerns of a citizens group...

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members and administrators starts the process of changing campus boundaries of elementary, intermediate, and middle school campuses. CSISD chief financial officer Heather Wilson reported at Tuesday's meeting (June 17) that some campus buildings have too many students, ot...

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. At the end of March, 150 volunteers with the Bryan/College Station chamber of commerce gathered information about the local economy from representatives of 679 businesses and manufacturers. Results of this year's chamber day survey were shared at this week's Brazos County commission meeting. Chamber president G...

This podcast contains comments from the June 16, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD employees on the district's health insurance are again discouraged to no use freestanding emergency room clinics. The subject was brought up during Monday night's (June 16) school board meeting. During the public hearing on the 2025-26 school year budget, board members and administrators talked about th...

Bryan Councilman Ray Arrington visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about his accomplishments during his time on council, keeping his district relevant, attracting growth, engaging with his constituents, the committees he serves on, Juneteenth, townhall meetings, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is the Texas A&M system's retirement reception program for chancellor John Sharp that was held June 18, 2025. Below is the order of the speakers and the time on the recording each person starts their remarks. Emcee was Texas A&M system's Stephanie Bjune. (1:09) Soon to retire system deputy chancellor and chief financial officer Billy Hamilton (8:36) System general counsel Ray...

This podcast contains comments from the June 17, 2025 Blinn College board of trustees meeting. Records are not available for the last time that Blinn College's largest campus by enrollment was not in Bryan. But that was the case during the spring semester. Headcount in Bryan was 3,980. Ten years ago, Bryan enrollment was more than 12,000. Blinn's largest spring enrollment was the number of online...

Bryan Councilwoman Marca Ewers-Shurtleff visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the water rights lawsuit, Texas water law, existing water well production, development at Midtown Park, the city budget, Bryan ISD, upcoming events, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Almost three hours of last Thursday's College Station city council meeting was a discussion about what they could do to make housing more affordable. No decisions were made, as the council also recognizes the continuing work by a citizen committee on that subject. Much of the time was devoted to whether imp...

This podcast contains comments from the May 27, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County's interest income during the first quarter of the 2025 calendar year was $4,245,341.42. That amount drew the attention of a speaker during the public comment portion of the county commission's May 27th meeting. Responding to a question of how the interest income will be spent, county auditor Katie...

This podcast contains comments from Texas A&M associate provost of faculty advocacy Claire Katz at the June 9, 2025 A&M faculty senate meeting. October 2024 began the work of the first person at Texas A&M to take on the new role of Associate Provost of Faculty Advocacy. Dr. Claire Katz shared her first eight months on the job at the June meeting of the A&M faculty senate. Katz, who...

State Representative Paul Dyson visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about his first legislative session, the committees he serves on, his response to Bryan ISD board member David Stasny's comments about public school funding, impact fees, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The penalty for College Station residents who leave out their trash containers near the street too long is changing. The city council voted five to one at their last meeting (June 12) to support a staff recommendation to impose a fee of $25.50 that is added to a customer's utility bill. Councilman David Whi...

This podcast contains comments from the June 10, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. There will be a fourth year that Brazos County commissioners hire someone to write grant applications. The contract is part of the budget that was approved before two new commissioners were elected last November. One of the new commissioners, Fred Brown, questioned how $48,000 dollars was spent during the first...

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council meeting. The lone speaker during the public comment portion of last Thursday's College Station city council meeting (June 12) asked that the city cemetery ordinance be re-interpreted. Lisa Burton wants to place in her mother's columbarium, the ashes of her late mother's cat. Burton says while the city ordinance says...

Spokeswoman Kathleen Sanderson visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about a school supplies drive, work the ministry team is doing this summer, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 12, 2025 College Station city council and the June 10, 2025 Brazos County commisson meetings. The College Station city council and the Brazos County commission agree to give more time for FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies to complete an expansion of their pharmaceutical complex in the biocorridor. Amendments to economic development agreements increase t...

Jeff Kersten, Assistant City Manager and Chief Financial Officer of the City of College Station, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about areas that he covers, trash collection, the deal with FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, planning the future budget, new water wells and addressing water issues, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is a visit with Allison Harrell of Bryan Broadcasting Events and WTAW's Bill Oliver. You're invited to this Saturday's (June 14) Brazos Valley Family Expo. There is no admission charge to take advantage of more than 60 booths highlighting family focused services, shopping, and community resources. The event, at The Brazos Center in Bryan from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., also includes a chil...

This podcast contains comments from the May 27, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners continue to negotiate with two companies over issues in the expansion of the juvenile detention center that began in 2018. Formal action was taken to extend what is called a "tolling agreement", which county judge Duane Peters and the commission's general counsel Bruce Erratt says all...

This podcast contains comments from the June 4, 2025 Bryan city council workshop meeting from the executive director of the Destination Bryan tourism office, John Friebele. Each June, the director of the Destination Bryan tourism office gives an update to the city council. Executive director John Friebele noted the upcoming fifth anniversary of the agency, which oversees 18 events, is a partner wi...

Maddie Green, Recreation Coordinator, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the Walk with a Doc program, senior socials, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Brazos County State Senator Charles Schwertner visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about his overall feelings about this legislative session, property taxes, school funding, water rights, the likeliness of a special session, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the June 10, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners approve a request to hire an outside legal firm in a federal lawsuit filed by an inmate at the county jail. The commission's general counsel, Bruce Erratt, said the inmate claims he is wrongfully being held on a parole violation. Erratt said hiring an outside firm saves the time and...