WTAW - Interviews

This podcast contains comments from the May 5, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD school board members continue discussing inaction by state lawmakers regarding public school funding. Monday's discussion (May 5) about state funding as part of attempting to develop a budget for the 2025-26 school year came two days after the governor signed legislation giving state money to private scho...

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about his visit to Army Futures Command in Austin, water rights, the William Joel Bryan Parkway project delay, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Brazos County State Senator Charles Schwertner visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about the final stretch of the session, work the House still has to accomplish, the budget conference committee, property taxes, school funding, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the April 24, 2025 meeting of the state prison board (officially known as the Texas board of criminal justice). The April meeting of the Texas prison board included a presentation on what staff is doing to reduce the amount of contraband getting to inmates. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the April 24, 2025 state prison board meeting....

On this week's United Way of the Brazos Valley update, Peggi Ondrasek is joined by Rhonda Watson and Madison Little of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Brazos Valley. 

Kohl Vega, Athletics Supervisor, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about youth summer camps, adult leagues, renting fields, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

State Representative Trey Wharton of Huntsville (R-TX) visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about passing Operation Safe Shield, using AI in political advertising, public school funding, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is a visit with Lina Adams of the Destination Bryan tourism office and WTAW's Bill Oliver about the May First Friday activities in downtown Bryan and the May 16th pre-party for the Troubadour Festival at the Palace Theater in downtown Bryan.

This podcast comments from the April 24, 2025 College Station city council meeting and the April 30, 2025 visit with mayor John Nichols and WTAW's Chelsea Reber on The Infomaniacs. The College Station city council agrees with staff recommendations to form committees to assist with two capital projects. One of the eight member groups will assist with the design of three new ballfields at Veterans P...

Mitchell Isbell, Director of Business Development, Events & Marketing for Legends Event Center, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about summer programming, sports camps, basketball tournaments, the Texas A&M Coaches Night, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

State Representative Paul Dyson of Bryan (R-TX) visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about questioning Brian Harrison's legislation in a committee hearing, using AI in political advertising, a nuclear verdict bill, public school funding, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about possible options for neighborhood parking, two new committees, the Citizens University Program, National Bike Month, a citizens survey, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Brazos County State Senator Charles Schwertner visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about his bill addressing insurance rate hikes, the creation of a Texas DOGE, increasing the homestead exemption for disabled and older Texans, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Texas Women’s Privacy Act, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is a visit with Adam Drake of the Brazos Valley Live Music Association and WTAW's Bill Oliver. The Brazos Valley Live Music Association (BVLMA) is a new nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting live music in Bryan, College Station, and surrounding communities. The association says it aims to foster a vibrant, sustainable live music scene in the heart of Texas throu...

This podcast contains comments from U.S. agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins and secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 29, 2025 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Phenotyping Greenhouse. The secretaries also visited Texas A&M's Beef Center. The photo with this podcast shows the secretaries in one of the greenhouses with a faculty member of Texas A&M's department...

Comments from College Station Mayor John Nichols and College Station Fire Department Chief Richard Mann. 

Dr. Susan Ballabina, Chief of Staff for Texas A&M University's President, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about the legal status of several international students, a quick-look assessment for the Corps of Cadets, Texas A&M 2040, Disaster Day, the Citizenship and Service Initiative, filling leadership role vacancies, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the April 21, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. The Bryan ISD education foundation has launched scholarship opportunities for some BISD educators to become certified teachers.  Foundation director Sarah Braden told school board members at its last meeting (April 21) about the opportunity for paraprofessionals and district of innovation teachers to have their...

This podcast contains comments from the April 22, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Another step is taken towards the construction of Brazos County’s new office complex across Texas Avenue from the courthouse. A $92,000 dollar contract to test soil was unanimously approved after commissioner Fred Brown questioned testing soil on the site of the former Bryan ISD administration building, which...

On this week's United Way of the Brazos Valley update, Maggie Gray is joined by John Paci from Catholic Charities of Central Texas. 

This podcast is a visit with Sarah Reed, who is one of the participants in the Texas 150 Multiple Sclerosis fundraising bicycle ride that will finish at Kyle Field. More than 70 teams of bicyclists will return to Kyle Field Sunday (April 27) to finish their annual fundraiser for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This year's fundraising goal for the 5,000 bicyclists who are participating is $10.75 million d...

This podcast includes comments from the April 21, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. One component of a Bryan ISD committee studying whether to recommend a future bond issue, is the district's demographic information. The first such report in six years was released during Monday's (April 21) BISD board meeting. Kris Pool projected district wide, enrollment in the next ten years to be somewhere b...

This podcast contains comments from the April 24, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Thursday's (April 25) College Station city council meeting included almost one hour of discussion on how to address housing overoccupancy by implementing parking restrictions. A council majority agreed to consider an overnight ban on street parking in affected neighborhoods. The council was given a list of...

Jennifer Cain, Capital Projects Director, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about birding, progress on fire station 7, pickleball and futsal courts at Anderson Park, new tennis courts, project budgets, committee studies, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

State Representative Trey Wharton of Huntsville (R-TX) visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about his time on the floor this week, Operation Safe Shield, school vouchers, insurance issues, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.