WTAW - Interviews

This podcast contains comments from the April 22, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting, where proclamations were issued for the 35th anniversary of Brazos County master gardeners and 20th anniversary of Brazos Valley master naturalists. Click HERE to read and download the proclamation to Brazos County Master Gardeners. Click HERE to read and download the proclamation to Brazos Valley Master Natur...

This podcast is a visit with the general manager of the Wellborn special utility (water) district, Campbell Young, and WTAW's Bill Oliver. The Wellborn water district has more than 10,000 customers in Brazos and Robertson counties that includes residents of College Station and Bryan.  The district's website says since 2018, the district has been working on a long term expansion project.  General m...

This podcast contains comments from the April 22, 2025 Texas A&M system board of regents building committee meeting. Before the Texas A&M system board of regents holds their next regularly scheduled business meeting in May, members of the building committee met this week (April 22) in College Station. Six projects were reviewed involving the flagship campus. Vice chancellor of business aff...

Amanda Kile, Tourism Event Coordinator for Destination Bryan, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the Downtown Bryan Street & Art Fair which was postponed due to weather and will be held Sunday, April 27, 2025.

State Representative Paul Dyson of Bryan (R-TX) visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about his proposed legislation about setting a moratorium on impact fees, bills he is laying out this week, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia about Plug and Play, wastewater infrastructure, new development in Downtown Bryan and Midtown Park, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

This podcast contains comments from the April 21, 2025 Brazos County IGC meeting, the April 22, 2025 A&M system board of regents building committee meeting, and the April 23, 2025 visit with Bryan mayor Bobby Gutierrez on WTAW's The Infomaniacs. Activity at the Texas A&M system's RELLIS campus was a subject at four meetings this week. System vice chancellor of research Joe Elabd shared at...

This podcast contains comments from the April 22, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Public speakers at Tuesday's meeting (April 22) of the Brazos County commission asked for assistance with a community garden and controlling feral cats. Because the requests were not part of the meeting agenda, by state law commissioners were not able to respond. The community garden request came from a third...

This podcast contains comments from the April 21, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Three years ago...as the pandemic came to an end...the Bryan ISD school board spent almost $800,000 dollars with a company that specializes in managing student behavior. A summary of what has been done and some of the results of the behavior plan were shared at Monday night's (April 21) board meeting. Click HERE...

Brazos County State Senator Charles Schwertner visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about school vouchers, the Texas Lottery, making gambling legal, the impeachment process of the attorney general, the budget, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the April 14, 2025 Texas A&M faculty senate meeting. Texas A&M has 6,000 students who are registered with the disability services center as requiring special accommodations. Director Kristie Orr told faculty senate members at this month's meeting that a west campus building is being remodeled to add student testing spaces. What was formerly an open acces...

This podcast contains comments from the April 15, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. A March hail storm damaged 29 vehicles owned by Brazos County. County commissioners at their April 15th meeting, approved a budget amendment transferring $130,000 dollars that in part will cover insurance deductibles. Estimated damages per vehicle ranged from $2,000 to more than $11,000 dollars. Click HERE to...

WTAW's Chelsea Reber visits with Peggi Ondrasek, President/CEO of United Way of the Brazos Valley, and Kyle Salmon and JJ Ramirez from Save Our Streets Ministries.

College Station Councilwoman Melissa McIlhaney visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about her decision to run for city council, her experience so far on council, the former Macy's store building, the no-more-than-four unrelated housing ordinance, code enforcement, impact fees, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the April 15, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members will consider at their May meeting, adding ten minutes to the class day.  The proposal that was made by administrators at the board's April workshop meeting. Superintendent Tim Harkrider said the recommendation was made in part to allow students from Consolidate...

This podcast contains comments from the April 7, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting. For the second consecutive year, the Bryan ISD school district's food service fund has too much money.  Instead of return excess funds to the state, BISD school board members agreed at its April 7th meeting to spend $361,000 dollars on new equipment.  The district's retired food service director, Sundy Fryrear, s...

Bryan City Councilman Jared Salvato visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the decision to not implement impact fees, widening streets, concerns about the legislature, Midtown Park, a possible new operator for Travis Field, upcoming city events, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

State Representative Paul Dyson of Bryan (R-TX) visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about school voucher legislation, government overstep, the upcoming agenda after Easter, President Trump's call, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from Brazos County commissioner Wanda Watson during the April 15, 2025 commission meeting. Brazos County commissioner Wanda Watson disclosed at the end of Tuesday's meeting (April 15) that there was a private gathering last Friday of stakeholders in the county's new office complex that will be built across Texas Avenue from the courthouse.  The complex includes what...

This podcast contains comments from the April 15, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. The photo with this podcast is Rock Prairie elementary school principal Jeff Durand addressing the board. College Station ISD (CSISD) school board members at Tuesday's meeting (April 15) without discussion, unanimously approved the superintendent's recommendations for administrator contracts for the ne...

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about SB 1567, See-Click-Fix, code enforcement, testifying in Austin, impact fees, upcoming city events, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Brazos County State Senator Charles Schwertner visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about voting against SB 1567, the budget, getting rid of the Texas Lottery, school vouchers, pulling funding from the bullet train, impact fees, e-verify, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast includes comments from the April 8, 2025 Blinn College trustees meeting. Almost three months after Blinn College opened their new Bryan campus administration and support services building, trustees move forward with another $100 million dollars in construction projects. Trustees voted 4-3 to approve selected the administration's recommendation for construction manager at risk (CMAR) f...

This podcast is a visit from Bryan police officer Seth Waller and WTAW's Bill Oliver. A shoutout is given to Bryan ISD security and Bryan police for handling a suspicious situation outside Bonham elementary school. BPD officer Seth Waller said last Thursday (April 10), the BISD security employee noticed a car circling around Bonham's parking lot several times while school was in session. Waller sa...

WTAW's Chelsea Reber visits with Peggi Ondrasek, President/CEO of United Way of the Brazos Valley, and Lynn Yeager from The Prenatal Clinic.