WTAW - Interviews

College Station city councilwoman Melissa McIlhaney visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on The Infomaniacs on Friday, April 17, 2026. Topics include housing developments inside and outside city limits, the status of the city owned former Macy's building and other city owned real estate, fire department union activity, developing the fiscal year 2027 budget, and the council's relationships with state...

This podcast is a visit with the general manager of the Wellborn Special Utility District, Campbell Young, and WTAW's Bill Oliver. The more than 10,000 water customers in the Wellborn special utility district are invited to a community meeting Saturday morning (April 18). General manager Campbell Young says four topics includes future impact fees, an update on the district's expansion plans, the i...

Bryan city councilman Jared Salvato visits with WTAW’s Will Welch on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, April 16, 2026, to review Tuesday's monthly regular meeting of the city council.

The chief public defender of the Brazos County public defender's office, Nathan Wood, visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on The Infomaniacs on Thursday, April 16, 2026, to discuss the creation of the department, caseloads, and more. 

This podcast contains comments from the April 9, 2026 College Station city council meeting from mayor John Nichols and councilman Bob Yancy. One of the few city of College Station employees that is hired by the city council is the city attorney. And at last week's council meeting (April 9), mayor John Nichols was caught off guard when not everyone approved a five year extension of the contract wit...

This podcast contains comments from Burleson County sheriff Bill Rios from an April 14, 2026 post on his Facebook page. Burleson County's sheriff provides more information in his weekly report as to what went into the decision to cancel Saturday's Chilifest music festival. Bill Rios said Friday's rainfall of one inch followed a six inch downpour earlier in the week. While there were no issues gett...

This podcast is a visit with assistant Brazos County district attorney Jessica Escue and WTAW's Bill Oliver. A Brazos County district court judge gives the maximum punishment to a 27 year old man who was caught with over 2,000 pornographic videos and images of over 800 hundred children. Assistant Brazos County district attorney Jessica Escue says 27 year old Preston Ray Smith will serve three cons...

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW’s The Infomaniacs on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. Topics include the economic impact of the upcoming Road to 26 soccer match and the Savannah Bananas baseball game at Kyle Field, the council's 4-3 vote to remove an extension of Pebble Creek Parkway from the city's comprehensive plan, and the council's upcoming rezoning request from a housing develo...

This podcast contains comments from the April 14, 2026 Bryan city council meeting. The agenda for each regular monthly meeting of the Bryan city council includes a report from the city manager. With Andrew Nelson out on medical leave, Tuesday's report (April 14) was given by deputy city manager Hugh Walker. The first of two prepared statements was on behalf of all city of Bryan employees. That was...

This podcast is a visit with the chief appraiser of the Brazos Central Appraisal District, Dana Horton, and WTAW's Bill Oliver. The Brazos Central Appraisal District (BCAD) starts three rounds of mailing property value notices on April 15th. Chief appraiser Dana Horton says additional mailings are scheduled for the end of April and in mid-May.  Horton says protest deadlines are 30 days from the da...

This podcast contains comments from the president of the Bryan/College Station chamber of commerce, Glen Brewer, during his visit with Will Welch and Scott DeLucia on WTAW's The Infomaniacs on April 14, 2026. The reaction came quickly after the Texas A&M system board of regents selected Susan Ballabina as their finalist for the next president at the flagship campus.  Shortly after the vote, th...

This podcast contains comments from the April 13, 2026 Texas A&M system board of regents meeting. The Texas A&M system board of regents names a sole finalist for president of the flagship campus. Susan Ballabina has more than 30 years experience at the university and other system agencies. Since June of 2025, Ballabina has been the system's executive vice chancellor since shortly after cha...

This podcast is a visit with United Way of the Brazos Valley president Lizett Hawkins, Lara Meece of UWBW partner agency Grimes Health Resource Center, and WTAW's Bill Oliver.

This podcast is a visit with city of College Station parks and recreation director Kelsey Heiden, the president of College Station's Little League Robert Parr, and WTAW's Bill Oliver. PLAY BALL! is underway at more than $7 million dollars of improvements at the city of College Station's Brian Bachmann community park. One of the projects approved by College Station city voters in November 2022, the...

This podcast contains comments from Bryan mayor James Edge during his visit on WTAW's The Infomaniacs on April 8, 2026. A special meeting of the Bryan city council that is scheduled May 5th to consider property tax abatements involves a building on the RELLIS campus that is already under construction. Mayor pro tem James Edge says there is a new owner of the building that he says is close to being...

College Station city manager Bryan Woods visited with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia on The Infomaniacs on Friday, April 10, 2026, to talk about his service in the Naval Reserves, the city council removing the proposed extension of Pebble Creek Parkway from the comprehensive plan, and fire department union activity. 

This podcast contains comments from the April 6, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Bryan ISD school board members learn about how central office administrators are meeting with campus employees regarding staffing for next year. Monday's board meeting (April 6), included two presentations related to staffing. One presentation included breaking down BISD's overall budget , where almost 86 percent...

This podcast contains comments from the April 9, 2026 College Station city council meeting from each council member before their 4-3 vote to remove the Pebble Creek Parkway extension from the city's comprehensive plan, and the applause from the audience of Pebble Creek subdivision homeowners and others who supported the removal. Click HERE to read and download background information from the city...

This podcast contains comments from the April 6, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. The first major construction project in a $397 million dollar bond issue passed by voters in Bryan ISD last November will be replacing the Merrill Green stadium fieldhouse and video board. BISD board members were told during Monday night's meeting (April 6) by the district's construction manager, Bobby Griffin, t...

City of Bryan parks and recreation manager Ashley Bennett and College Station assistant parks and recreation director Gene Ballew visit with Will Welch on WTAW’s The Infomaniacs Thursday, April 9, 2026, to provide a preview of the Games of Texas returning to Bryan/College Station.

Bryan mayor pro tem James Edge visits with WTAW’s Will Welch on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, to talk about data centers, BTU energy looking into the potential for nuclear energy, and more. 

ERCOT board chairman Bill Flores of Bryan visits with WTAW’s The Infomaniacs on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, to talk about Texas power grid, load growth, data centers, future of large grid battery storage, and more. 

This podcast is the April 8, 2026 groundbreaking of the new home of Scotty's House child advocacy center in Bryan. The emcee is Karla Castillo and speakers are Scotty's House board chairman Ronnie Gonzales, executive director Cary Baker, director of external relations Melanie Scarpace, and the chairman of the capital campaign John Gottfried. This year's annual recognition of child abuse awareness...

This podcast contains comments from the March 26, 2026 College Station city council meeting. The College Station city council at its last meeting (March 26) unanimously approved rezoning land and changing the land use classification to build another student apartment complex north of Easterwood Airport. Councilmembers were not told how many units would be part of the complex on Turkey Creek Road....

This podcast is a visit with Bryan police officer Seth Waller and WTAW's Bill Oliver. Bryan police is asking high school seniors to be aware of the consequences for playing a game in public using water guns. Officer Seth Waller says they responded last Friday night (April 3) to the parking lot of the H-E-B at Villa Maria and Texas following 9-1-1 calls of people chasing each other with what appear...