WTAW - Interviews

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about the Phillips Event Center, the sewer trunkline interlocal agreement with College Station, the potential project at RELLIS, BTU, capital improvement projects, medians, upcoming events, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Dr. Susan Ballabina, Texas A&M President's Chief of Staff, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about a rural medicine practice, the CrowdStrike outage, leadership positions that are being filled, Howdy Week, and more during her appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Jef Conn, Chairman of Texas Realtors, visits with WTAW's Chelsea Reber about Q2 housing market trends for the College Station-Bryan area.

This podcast contains comments from the June 18, 2024 College Station ISD board meeting.

College Station ISD's superintendent tells his board that it's time to talk about a subject that no one wants to discuss...changing campus boundaries.

Tim Harkrider brought up rezoning during June's CSISD board meeting as he asked members to consider dropping the annual requirement that was established seven years ago to spend $25,000 dollars on a demographer to review campus populations.

Click HERE to read and download College Station ISD's policy "FC local", which includes the yearly review of student population of campus buildings.

Board members took no action during the June discussion. Neither of the subjects were not brought up during July's CSISD board meeting.

Ian Whittenton, Deputy City Secretary, visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about filing for the upcoming election and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is a recording of the portion of the July 25th, 2024 Leadership Brazos Alumni Association luncheon honoring Louis Newman III and the 75th anniversary of Newman Printing Company.

Speakers in order of appearance are Bryan/College Station chamber of commerce president Glen Brewer, Joel Bryan of Bryan Creative Group, Doug Tennis of StarLite Advisory Group, Louis Newman III, College Station mayor John Nichols, and Bryan mayor Bobby Gutierrez.

The photo associated with this podcast is Louis Newman holding a framed copy of a proclamation read by the mayors. Standing (L-R) are Bobby Gutierrez, Louis Newman III, John Nichols, and Glen Brewer.

This podcast is a recording of the July 25, 2024 Leadership Brazos (LB) Alumni Luncheon program that includes:

The presentation of the Royce Hickman leadership scholarship

Recognition of LB class of 2024 coordinators

Introduction of incoming LB coordinators

An overview of the Leadership Brazos program

and information for LB alumni

The city of Bryan's City Secretary, Mary Lynne Stratta, visited with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about recruiting for boards, committees, and commissions.

At the end of the visit, Stratta announced she will be retiring August 22nd after 34 years with the city.

Stratta also said taking over the position is deputy city secretary Melissa Brunner.

According to the city of Bryan website, Stratta has also served as the city's legislative director and has been responsible for operating municipal court, the city marshal's office, council services, communications and marketing, and neighborhood and youth services.

That is in addition to responsibilities spelled out by state law that includes elections and birth and death records.

This podcast contains public comments from the July 23, 2024 meeting of the Brazos County commission, followed by a visit with Brazos County elections administrator Trudy Hancock and WTAW's Bill Oliver.

Brazos County commissioners hear about the work of a group looking through voter registration records.

During public comments at Tuesday's (July 23) meeting, Cindy Wiley said those records need to be cleaned up. 

One example described by Wiley was that she found 54 people who had the same birthdate of January 1 of 1901.

Elections administrator Trudy Hancock told WTAW News that those voters have a false date of birth because when they registered, state law did not require that or other personal information.

Hancock says Texas is one of the most stringent states when it comes to removing people from voter registration records...adding that most of the time that is done by the state.

County commissioners by state law were not allowed to respond to Wiley because her comments were not part of an agenda item.

College Station Mayor John Nichols visits with WTAW’s Scott DeLucia about the upcoming public hearing on the proposed budget, operations and maintenance funds, public transportation, this week’s meeting agenda, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.