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The Infomaniacs: October 15th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: The Amber Alert Network of the Brazos Valley is hosting
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  Speaker 1: Honk for the Missing today. The group will be across
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  Speaker 1: from the main entrance to Texas A & M on
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  Speaker 1: Texas Avenue at Walton Street from noon until 1. Chuck Flieger,
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  Speaker 1: executive director of Amber Alert Brazos Valley, says that drivers
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  Speaker 1: are simply asked to honk as they drive by.
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  Speaker 2: This is just a reminder that while we do this
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  Speaker 2: once a year, every other day out of the year,
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  Speaker 2: there are people that are missing, and that means that
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  Speaker 2: there are family members and loved ones who don't know
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  Speaker 2: where they are.
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  Speaker 1: Flieger says there are about 300 missing child reports every year.
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  Speaker 1: The majority of those cases result in a quick return
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  Speaker 1: thanks to the network. About 80 of those cases are
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  Speaker 1: where a child is missing three days or longer. On Monday,
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  Speaker 1: a missing 14-year-old from Bryan, Aria Cates, was located safe
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  Speaker 1: nearly 250 miles away after being missing for 10 days.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Comptroller Don Huffines announced a ban on state grant
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  Speaker 1: money paying for the equipment or contracts for ALPRs and
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  Speaker 1: other vehicle identification systems that convert license plate images into
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  Speaker 1: computer-readable data. Huffines calls them spy cameras. He says the
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  Speaker 1: government has no business tracking where law-abiding Texans drive. Doing
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  Speaker 1: it without a warrant is a clear violation of the
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  Speaker 1: Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Requirements will apply to all
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  Speaker 1: future grants administered by the Comptroller's Office. It includes cameras, software,
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  Speaker 1: and subscriptions sold or operated by any entity, including Flock, Motorola,
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  Speaker 1: and Axon. New polling in the race for Senate shows
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  Speaker 1: a big swing between rural and urban parts of the state.
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  Speaker 3: In big blue cities, polling shows the race is neck
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  Speaker 3: and neck. But in rural Texas, the GOP's Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 3: is killing it.
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  Speaker 4: There's some diehard Democrats out there, but, you know, they're
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  Speaker 4: fewer every election.
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  Speaker 3: Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says the ranchers he speak
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  Speaker 3: with feel like they're ignored by Democrats who rarely campaign
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  Speaker 3: in the country. A new poll out this week shows
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  Speaker 3: Paxton up 34 points in rural Texas. In San Antonio,
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  Speaker 3: Michael Board, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI says North Korea has been making money off
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  Speaker 1: American companies to fund weapons programs.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like the makings of a spy novel, but
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  Speaker 5: the FBI says this really happened. North Korean operatives posed
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  Speaker 5: as American technology workers using stolen identities to land remote jobs.
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  Speaker 5: Employers then shipped computers to North Korean accomplices here in Texas.
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  Speaker 5: They allowed foreign agents to log in remotely, do the
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  Speaker 5: work from overseas, and collect the paychecks. The FBI says
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  Speaker 5: nearly a billion dollars was sent back to North Korea
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  Speaker 5: to fund weapons programs there. The FBI says they seized
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  Speaker 5: about 187 computers statewide. More arrests could be coming. Russell Scott,
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  Speaker 5: TSN News.
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  Speaker 6: 16, 20, 94, 5, WTAW. It's about to be, it's
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  Speaker 6: about to feel like fall. Get your hoodies out. Get
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  Speaker 6: your sweaters out. Build you that fire. Not for tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Today's going to be 91. Tomorrow, though, you're only getting
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  Speaker 6: up to 70 degrees. And it's going to be glorious.
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  Speaker 6: and Carrier to keep your AC running properly. I don't
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  Speaker 6: feel a difference. So we were doing candidate conversations. How
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  Speaker 6: long have we been doing this show now? Is it
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  Speaker 6: about– are we at six months yet?
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  Speaker 1: I think we're pretty close to six months, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So I was– we did Wanda Watson's episode. Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for being here. Commissioner– Brass County Commissioner of
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  Speaker 6: Precinct 4. And I thought to myself, how has Wanda
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  Speaker 6: not been in here yet?
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  Speaker 7: And she hadn't.
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  Speaker 6: We just hadn't had her in. So today we're having
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  Speaker 6: her in.
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  Speaker 8: Right, not with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Not with us.
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  Speaker 6: I know you've been with Scott.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say, I remember her being here.
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  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, this is a me problem.
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  Speaker 1: This is a you problem.
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  Speaker 6: This is a me problem. I'm the new one to
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  Speaker 6: the game. But thank you so much for joining us today.
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  Speaker 6: Let's talk a few things. I feel like we always
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  Speaker 6: hear construction projects from the commissioners when they come in here.
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  Speaker 6: And a lot of them seem to center around the courthouse,
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  Speaker 6: the annex, everything else like that. What... Are y'all working
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  Speaker 6: on a project at the expo that I just didn't
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  Speaker 6: know about?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So the county's been around for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So we have a number of buildings where there's been
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  Speaker 8: deferred maintenance. And so with inspections, they found that there
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  Speaker 8: were some things that we could no longer defer. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: there's significant renovations, refreshing, maintaining some things so that the
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  Speaker 8: building will last for a while.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good thing, coming into the Brazos Valley Fair
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  Speaker 1: and Rodeo.
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  Speaker 6: It's an amazing thing, coming into the fair.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, family-friendly entertainment. And I have to say, as a commissioner,
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  Speaker 8: this is my fourth year being a commissioner, I will
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  Speaker 8: admit that I was not a fair person, so now
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  Speaker 8: I've become a fair person.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't they great?
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  Speaker 8: And they are great. But what amazed, what I did
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  Speaker 8: not know, was how many people show up.
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  Speaker 1: It's a draw.
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  Speaker 8: And the young people, it is an absolute draw. It
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  Speaker 8: is truly, I mean, all ages from the little bitty guys,
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  Speaker 8: little toddlers, all the way up. And it is a
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  Speaker 8: phenomenal experience in Brazos County. And I'm just delighted. And
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  Speaker 8: it looks like the weather.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be county fair weather.
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  Speaker 8: It's going to give you that county fair feel. And
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  Speaker 8: so I'm just delighted. And I encourage everybody. If you
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  Speaker 8: get an opportunity to go to their website and you'll
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  Speaker 8: be able to buy tickets. There are some things I
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  Speaker 8: believe that are free, but you know, if you want
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  Speaker 8: to go, you can get tickets to go.
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  Speaker 6: And really quality rodeo.
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  Speaker 8: Even the young people, even the, that's what got me
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  Speaker 8: was when I noticed how many young folks, you know,
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  Speaker 8: middle schoolers look alike and teenagers.
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  Speaker 9: It's hard.
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  Speaker 6: It's hard to find, but when the weather is right,
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  Speaker 6: when the weather is right, I'll give you the spring too.
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  Speaker 6: Cause it's, it's the same thing. Whenever, whenever it's fair
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  Speaker 6: and rodeo season, there's just, something that is nice about
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  Speaker 6: spending a day. At the fair.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the fair, the rodeo, the concerts. I also
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  Speaker 1: want to point out the young people that are showing
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  Speaker 1: animals there. The youth. Man, what an amazing amount of
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  Speaker 1: work they put in and what a great thing that is.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely. You ever get a chance to talk to these kids?
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure you'll do some of the judging.
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  Speaker 8: No, I don't necessarily talk to them because I'm more
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  Speaker 8: of an observant.
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  Speaker 6: Got it.
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  Speaker 8: I tend to, I'm just, you know, because it's somewhat
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  Speaker 8: new to me being in, you know, working for the county.
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  Speaker 8: You know, anytime in an environment, in certain environments, I
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  Speaker 8: tend to just kind of watch people. to get a
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  Speaker 8: feel for it, to see how people are engaging and interacting.
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  Speaker 8: So it gives me some idea of what people like
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  Speaker 8: and what they're enjoying. And so my observation is just
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  Speaker 8: watching all the families and people and all the different
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  Speaker 8: people that are coming out to do that. And it's
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  Speaker 8: a diverse group. That's what I also like. And just
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  Speaker 8: so you know, that is also located in my precinct.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is. There you go.
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  Speaker 6: And I wanted to get to that, too.
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  Speaker 10: So.
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  Speaker 6: First Candidates Forum was obviously this Tuesday. You were a
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  Speaker 6: part of it. And during the conversation, Scott was setting
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  Speaker 6: that up, talking about some of the demographics of Precinct 4,
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  Speaker 6: which I found amazing how diverse it actually is in
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  Speaker 6: that precinct.
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  Speaker 8: But you've got to realize, Precinct 4, I call it
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  Speaker 8: old Bryan. When you think about the makeup of Bryan
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  Speaker 8: College Station, Bryan was a city, so you had your
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  Speaker 8: population there. And then, you know, College Station, i.e., the
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  Speaker 8: university started there and then the city evolved around it.
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  Speaker 8: And so what you have is it's sort of like
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  Speaker 8: you have the university and the university people and you
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  Speaker 8: have the town. And so when you look at the diversity,
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  Speaker 8: that's where you find the growth of, you know, the
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  Speaker 8: different level of citizenry and cultures and so forth. And
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  Speaker 8: so that's why I always talk about I have the
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  Speaker 8: most culturally and ethnically diverse precinct in the county.
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  Speaker 1: Easily.
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  Speaker 6: Easily. And you're right. It's a lot of the a
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  Speaker 6: lot of the history, a lot of the the inherited
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  Speaker 6: culture of people that are the third, fourth generation, not
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  Speaker 6: only in Bryan, but in a neighborhood. You know, that's
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  Speaker 6: something that that over time is grown. And it's it's
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  Speaker 6: some of the best parts of of any community. And I, I,
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  Speaker 6: I love, right. Love old Brian.
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  Speaker 8: And we're somewhat similar to A & M as the
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  Speaker 8: mayor was talking about the other night. Brian is over
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  Speaker 8: 150 years old.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And you know, the university is 150 years old and
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  Speaker 8: then you have college station is about 75 years old.
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  Speaker 8: And so that's why you have that enriched. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Culturally culturally difference in, in what you see in college station.
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  Speaker 6: Now for that, for that district and that precinct, um
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  Speaker 6: obviously very diverse a very is it a unique set
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  Speaker 6: of concerns unique set of things that that that are
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  Speaker 6: that you look at from a county perspective that they
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  Speaker 6: find interest in or are worried about currently or what
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  Speaker 6: do they come to you with as far as the
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  Speaker 6: big issues well you know it's.
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  Speaker 8: Always like you know paving the streets one that I
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  Speaker 8: ran into most recently, there are a number of neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 8: you know, with the, I hate to bring the medians up,
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  Speaker 8: but I think, I think, no.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't even going to mention the medians.
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  Speaker 8: Well, but here's from a community complaint perspective.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 8: What is happening is, and I remember when those medians
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  Speaker 8: first became medians, and I heard someone say, it's just
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  Speaker 8: going to direct traffic into the neighborhoods. And so the
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  Speaker 8: request now is for speed bumps.
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  Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to do traffic control there.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 8: You know, because even standing there talking to a constituent
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  Speaker 8: when they're showing me, I mean, it's like a racetrack
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  Speaker 8: in terms of what you perceive. Because even on my street,
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  Speaker 8: you know, when you watch it and we had some
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  Speaker 8: neighbors complain and they came out and did sort of
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  Speaker 8: a speed test, 30 miles an hour is faster than
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  Speaker 8: you think in a neighborhood.
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  Speaker 6: In an older neighborhood, it's very fast.
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  Speaker 8: You know, and so that's what people are seeing. But
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  Speaker 8: I could see it, too, because one of the last
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  Speaker 8: guy was talking about, he says, there's a bus stop there.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 8: The kids are getting off there. It's a nice wide street,
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  Speaker 8: but it's just like I mean, people are not slowing down.
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  Speaker 6: And it's and, you know, again, this is part of
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  Speaker 6: if you look at other cities, then this is a good,
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  Speaker 6: very good point. If you look at other cities where
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  Speaker 6: medians have been really well established, you usually do start
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  Speaker 6: to see things that the neighborhoods do to try to
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  Speaker 6: mitigate speed. with either speed bumps or those kind of,
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  Speaker 6: the humps or whatever, you know, you just, you have
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  Speaker 6: to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Spike strips.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's, you think people upset about the meetings, put
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  Speaker 8: out spike strips.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying you've got to slow the traffic down somehow.
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  Speaker 7: You do what you have to do.
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  Speaker 8: But that is one of the things that, and I
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  Speaker 8: wasn't surprised because I'm watching, I'm observing what he is,
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  Speaker 8: as he's saying to me about what his concerns are.
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  Speaker 8: So you get those kinds of things. And of course,
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  Speaker 8: sometimes out in the county when I first started, I
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  Speaker 8: had people asking for streetlights. We don't do that. When
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  Speaker 8: you choose the bucolic lifestyle, you don't get streetlights. That's
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  Speaker 8: a little bit different.
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  Speaker 6: Again, I get that sometimes it's just the grass is
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  Speaker 6: always greener with this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You could have a lot of streetlights.
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  Speaker 6: You don't necessarily want a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of streetlights. That's why I moved out to the country.
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  Speaker 6: I like to not be able to see past a
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  Speaker 6: certain point but.
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  Speaker 8: There are there are some areas i mean you think
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  Speaker 8: when you again i drive the roads yeah they're curvy
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  Speaker 8: roads yes there are narrow roads and so there are
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  Speaker 8: some areas where i could see where maybe a street
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  Speaker 8: light or two would be a value because it's just
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  Speaker 8: you know and if you live on the road because
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  Speaker 8: i've been on some roads and so i'm driving like
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  Speaker 8: you know i'm driving like miss daisy and and and
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  Speaker 8: there will be cars stacked because i'm i don't know
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  Speaker 8: the road And so I'm driving very cautiously in addition
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  Speaker 8: to I'm just looking at the neighborhoods. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You can always tell those problem areas by looking at
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  Speaker 1: the fence that's on the other side of the curb.
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  Speaker 1: If it's a problem area, that section will be new
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  Speaker 1: all of the time.
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  Speaker 12: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Because people keep running through it.
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  Speaker 6: Because you spike the fence all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And at that point in time, you put one of
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  Speaker 1: those flashing signs. I've seen this happen here locally.
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  Speaker 8: You don't have the color-coded reflective sign?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sometimes that doesn't matter. Oh, okay. But yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: seen that in a number of occasions where you always
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  Speaker 1: have to replace the fence. That's where you need the
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  Speaker 1: signs and the lights. Goodness.
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  Speaker 6: What else do we want to get to today?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, do y'all ever go down Texas Avenue
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  Speaker 8: to see what's happening with our administration building now that they've,
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  Speaker 8: you know, they've displaced us now. Believe it or not,
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  Speaker 8: our residence for court is the medical examiner's office.
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  Speaker 6: I was hearing that, I think it was Commissioner Brown,
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  Speaker 6: he was in here, he was talking about the amount
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  Speaker 6: of time you guys are going to be Yes.
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  Speaker 1: De-officed.
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  Speaker 8: Because of what it did. I mean, because I mean,
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  Speaker 8: when they, and I don't know what started, I think
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  Speaker 8: it was a deferred maintenance. They were looking at what's happening.
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  Speaker 8: It's a 40-year-old building. And even I was surprised when
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  Speaker 8: I drove by, I've driven by several times because I
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  Speaker 8: live in Bryan, so I do travel Texas Avenue. And
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  Speaker 8: when they stripped the bricks off, how the paper and
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  Speaker 8: whatever that was, the 40-year-old construction.
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  Speaker 6: Everything that was behind the bricks.
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  Speaker 8: Behind there. It just looked, awful it's kind of like
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  Speaker 8: when you say it on hgtv if you'd open it
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  Speaker 8: up you never know what yeah yes and i think
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  Speaker 8: they had some idea but for me it was very
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  Speaker 8: shocking to see how bad that wall was and the
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  Speaker 8: paper and the you know it's just like it was
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  Speaker 8: just peeling off and so you know i can understand
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  Speaker 8: why we're doing this and and and i'm delighted with
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  Speaker 8: the things that we're doing in terms of the infrastructure
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  Speaker 8: because you assume if you spend for example our our
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  Speaker 8: annex a court annex building Yes, it is an expensive building,
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  Speaker 8: and I used to be an accountant. If you amateurize
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  Speaker 8: it over 50 to 75 years, and the quality of
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  Speaker 8: what our construction is, I was in the MLB again looking.
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  Speaker 8: The construction of that building is amazing. We did not
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  Speaker 8: cheap out on that. I am so pleased with how
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  Speaker 8: well that building has been built. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: assume with Trevor and our project management team that they
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  Speaker 8: will make sure that that court annex building stands the
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  Speaker 8: test of time.
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  Speaker 6: I think when it's all said and done, I end
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  Speaker 6: up passing it probably once or twice a week. And
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  Speaker 6: it's a monumental project. But once it's done, man, I'm
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  Speaker 6: surprised everyone made it this long without an annex, honestly,
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  Speaker 6: because you talk about the court had the amount of,
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  Speaker 6: or no, it seems like you're really packed in there.
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  Speaker 8: You're correct.
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  Speaker 6: For a long time.
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  Speaker 8: And that's the thing, you know, every time I go
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  Speaker 8: to different, I was at the Council of Government yesterday,
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  Speaker 8: and so Tom Johnson, who's over there, Brazos Valley Economic
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  Speaker 8: Development Office, was doing the presentation on what's happening with
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  Speaker 8: Grimes County and the ripple effect of what that will
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  Speaker 8: be like and the impact for Brazos County. And it
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  Speaker 8: is amazing to me. I think we're very timely. I
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  Speaker 8: praise Judge Peters and the commissioners before me who had
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  Speaker 8: And so, you know, when you think about the projected
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  Speaker 6: It's massive.
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  Speaker 8: I think we're going to be on time because some
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  Speaker 6: Well, you're either on time or, honestly, you're probably very late,
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  Speaker 8: I'm glad to be a part of some of the
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  Speaker 1: Nobody could.
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  Speaker 8: We didn't anticipate that, and so the fact that they
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so much for coming in today.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you. Is that my time? Is that?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, I go back to Judge Peters. You know,
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  Speaker 14: Same.
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  Speaker 8: And I had an opportunity. The Producers Co-op has their
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  Speaker 8: annual event. board meeting and approved it at the, I'm blanking,
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  Speaker 8: all of these ranchers and farmers that come in, it's
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  Speaker 8: their board meeting. And what, I got a chance, I
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  Speaker 8: sat at the table with the judge and, you know,
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  Speaker 8: it was just kind of like they know he's leaving,
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they got trimmed a few more weeks off.
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  Speaker 8: And so it was such, it was so delightful. to
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  Speaker 8: see his friends and neighbors. I'm so glad he's getting the...
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  Speaker 8: They just came over and said, good to see you.
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  Speaker 8: We're sorry to see you go. They understood. But it
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: was sort of like what we call old home week.
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  Speaker 8: They were so gracious. Some of the gentlemen... some of
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  Speaker 8: the farmers, some of the people that work at Producers Co-op.
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  Speaker 8: It was sort of like a swan song with a
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  Speaker 8: group of people that he likes. I'm sure he won't
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  Speaker 8: ever see them again, but it was just kind of
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: good to see it in a collective group.
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  Speaker 6: It's always so nice, especially in people that have that
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  Speaker 8: If you all know anybody, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 8: that's with Scott, the institutional knowledge. I could ask him,
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  Speaker 15: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, just amazing. So we're losing some institutional knowledge,
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• 18:50
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  Speaker 8: So, That's that's that's my final thing is just my
• 19:07
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• 19:11
  Speaker 8: as a new commissioner and just watching others who I'm
• 19:14
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  Speaker 6: I know a lot of people do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think agree or disagree with any types
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  Speaker 15: Charles Schwertner has a record of fighting for Texas and
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  Speaker 15: delivering results. He took on human traffickers and protected our kids.
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  Speaker 15: He passed safeguards against dangerous uses of AI, and he
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. On
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night, WTAW and the Bryan College Station Chamber of
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Commerce held a candidate forum featuring candidates from many races.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Scott DeLucia asked the candidates for College Station Mayor about
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: their thoughts on affordable housing. Elizabeth Kuna says it's a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: problem that will never go away.
• 33:51
  Speaker 26: Affordable housing is never going to be solved. We can
• 33:55
  Speaker 26: only do some things sometimes for some people.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: She thinks increasing the homestead exemption is a good start.
• 34:02
  Speaker 17: I would like to.
• 34:03
  Speaker 26: See the homestead exemption raised. They said we can go
• 34:05
  Speaker 26: up to 20%. We're sitting at five.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: What does that do?
• 34:08
  Speaker 26: It incentivizes home ownership.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Bob Yancey is optimistic about the issue. He says a
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: root issue is out-of-control appraisals.
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: I can promise you that it can be improved. I
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: don't know about completely resolved, but it can definitely be improved.
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: When Christy and I bought our first house in Shenandoah
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: in College Station, we paid $ 75, 000 for it. If I
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: control for inflation, that house should cost $ 170, 000.
• 34:32
  Speaker 14: Instead.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: It's on the rolls for $ 300, 000.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Scott also asked the candidates how they feel about the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: city's ownership of Macy's.
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: It's a bad situation and an enduring, visible reminder that
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: a poor governmental decision was made.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Yancey says the city needs to find a way to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: get out from under it.
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: I do believe the disposition of that asset has to happen,
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: and it has to happen soon.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Kuna says the purchase had led to big tenants coming
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: into the mall.
• 35:03
  Speaker 19: It's easy to.
• 35:04
  Speaker 26: Look back and say, oh, that was a terrible decision.
• 35:06
  Speaker 26: But at the time, we had residents whose drumbeat was,
• 35:09
  Speaker 26: you've got to do something about the mall. And so
• 35:12
  Speaker 26: we did something. The upside of it is that it
• 35:16
  Speaker 26: kept stability at the mall. And so now you have Murdoch's.
• 35:19
  Speaker 26: Now you have.
• 35:21
  Speaker 18: Dave Buster's.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: You can hear from all the candidates at Tuesday's forum.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: including state representative districts 12 and 14, commissioners court and
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: mayor of Bryan, now streaming at WTAW.com. The forum on
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Monday will feature candidates running for city council in Bryan
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: and College Station. That's at 6 o'clock at the Brazza
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Center and live on WTAW. A man was jailed after
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: stumbling drunk down the road and kicking construction barrels into
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the street. College Station police responded to the intersection of
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Southwest Parkway and Welsh Avenue and around 10 o'clock on
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Monday night. Officers say 24-year-old Michael Lutke had glassy eyes,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: slurred speech, difficulty maintaining his balance, and smelled of alcohol.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: He was carrying a large, nearly empty bottle of whiskey.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: During his arrest, he was found with a loaded handgun.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Lutke was charged with public intoxication. and unlawful carrying of
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: a weapon. He remains jailed on $ 5, 300 bond. High gas
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: prices are driving some trucking companies to file for bankruptcy.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: The bankruptcies even include some Texas trucking companies, and they're
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: all citing the high cost of fuel.
• 36:30
  Speaker 27: There are a lot of trucks for sale right now
• 36:32
  Speaker 27: just because of the price of diesel.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Texas trucking consultant Joe Michael says this is having a
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: ripple effect. With fewer operators, it's more expensive to move goods.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: That means we'll see inflation for everything from groceries to
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Christmas presents. In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Texas Governor Greg Abbott's Democratic challenger is taking aim at
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the Republicans' data center policies.
• 36:54
  Speaker 28: Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gina Hinojosa is pushing for legislation
• 36:58
  Speaker 28: to give folks a say in the development of local
• 37:01
  Speaker 28: data centers.
• 37:02
  Speaker 29: There is no protection for water or electricity costs. We
• 37:06
  Speaker 29: are left to fend for ourselves under Greg Abbott. And
• 37:10
  Speaker 29: people are big mad in Texas about the data centers.
• 37:14
  Speaker 28: Speaking in Dallas, criticizing Texas Governor Greg Abbott for the
• 37:17
  Speaker 28: rapid expansion of AI data centers in the state, blaming
• 37:20
  Speaker 28: tax breaks and other incentives. Governor Abbott ordered a pause
• 37:24
  Speaker 28: on some data center approvals in August and proposed banning
• 37:27
  Speaker 28: data center development in rural Texas. Communities have protested data
• 37:30
  Speaker 28: center expansion, citing concerns over the use of power, water,
• 37:34
  Speaker 28: and a lack of public notice. Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott is in a reelection race against Anahosa with
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: a little less than three weeks until Election Day. Harris
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: County prosecutors are considering assault charges after they say an
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: ICE officer purposely drove his vehicle into a man while
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: conducting field operations. Agents claim Miguel Pera Hernandez darted in
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: front of their vehicle. Hernandez has had one surgery on
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a leg and will have another on an ankle. Cesar Espinosa,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the executive director of FEAL Houston, says Hernandez is in
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the custody of the same people who ran him over.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Espinosa wants Hernandez to remain hospitalized until after the second surgery.
• 38:14
  Speaker 12: Because if the government did this to him, then they
• 38:17
  Speaker 12: must repair him.
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: Because this is not only a damage that can damage.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Him for the next few days, the next few months,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: or the next few weeks.
• 38:23
  Speaker 16: It could be a damage that can be lifelong.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: ICE said they were targeting a man named Jose Mendoza.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Espinoza says none of the witnesses they've spoken to know
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: who that person is. More news throughout the day or
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  Speaker 12: Everything's a blur.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning. How are you guys? Well, they booked you
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: to make the weekly appearance on the show.
• 42:02
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: And then, after they booked you, they dropped the legal
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: opinion on medians.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: So... Watch out for that.
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know if I drew the short straw
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: or if they had a lot of confidence in me.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: So let's let's.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: Let's go through it. And again, if you missed this
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: illegal opinion on medians and whether or not there's anything
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: that can be done about them legally, which, as we
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: talked about yesterday, isn't actually legal. I think everyone kind
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: of knew that there were going to be limitations on
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: what you can do with these.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: And I got to be careful with what I do
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: and do not say, obviously I'm here representing the city
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: of Bryan and we cannot advocate for against anything that's
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: on the ballot.
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: Certainly want to kind of give you our perspective. And
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: we did waive our, our, um, council, right. Um, client, um, attorney,
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: client privilege so that we could do it. And, you know, um,
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: It seems like sometimes we just can't do anything, right?
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: Because if we would not have released that, then we
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: would have been trying to hide something. We did release it,
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: and we're trying to now influence the vote.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: That is interesting because there's a lot of, well, why
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: are you dropping it right before the election? And I
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: do get that, but then you do have to think
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: about that flip side. What if you had the election,
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: and then it comes out, hey, they had a legal
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: opinion sitting there that said— what it said, which is basically, ah,
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: it's going to be difficult to get these things out
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: of there.
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: We thought it was important to let the public know,
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: especially on, on such a hot type, hot topic, controversial
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: topic with being the medians, um, that there is, you know,
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: just because the, if it is voted on and approved
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: to have that in this, in the city charter, that's
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: not the end. That's not the end all be all.
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: We still have to work on text out. We still
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: have to figure out how we're going to pay for it. Um,
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: still a long road to get to the end of
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: until we can come up with a resolution on those.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: And, you know, personally, I.
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: Know that there's some pros and cons to the medians.
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: You know, we obviously, there was an excerpt on a
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: local news station just this morning talking about the first responders.
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: I know that it does create some obstacles for them,
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: but Chris Lamb, the PIO over there, You know, we've
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: got great firefighters, great paramedics. They find a way to
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: get to whatever wreck or medical need there is as
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: quick as they can. And he mentioned, you know, it's
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: nothing more than having to navigate the five o'clock traffic.
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: So, yeah.
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: But there, you know, also I find some peace in
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: knowing that if I'm driving down Texas Avenue, my family
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: or any community member, um, there is a barrier there.
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of people on their cell phones these days.
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: There is the last thing I want to have to
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: be worried about is someone on their cell phone and
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: drifts over into a head on collision. So there's pros
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: and cons.
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: And, um, do we, do we think that I, I,
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: is there to your knowledge or to, I don't know
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: how much y'all gotten into the nitty gritty. Are there
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: any medians to your knowledge that would be eligible for
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: to be removed, or is this like, guys, we're going
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: to be up a really long battle?
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: Obviously, a traffic engineer is the one that comes up
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: with this. It's designed, and they are specifically looking at
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: the safety of intersections, the safety of where the data
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: is saying there might be a higher volume of wrecks.
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: So they are specifically looking at that. To get the
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: medians removed in certain areas, it's my understanding that we're
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: going to have to have a professional traffic engineer stamp
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: those new plans. And if, if, if we can't get
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: that done in certain areas, because.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: They seems like a difficult thing to get someone to
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: sign up.
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: And now, and there's other, there's other means to it. Uh,
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: you know, I believe right at Rosemary, um, or just
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: intersection down there, we're removing a section, we're putting up
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: a traffic signal. So there's, there's ways around, around it
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: by removing some of those, but that results in traffic signals,
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: some other type of, of, um, traffic calming or whatnot
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: that might be required that they have to approve on.
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: The other question that pops up is the $ 8 million
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: price tag, which is in the opinion as well.
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: Where would that money come from potentially, or do we know?
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: So we don't have a source right now. We would
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: probably have to put that in our CIP, our capital
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: improvement plan. We would potentially have to shuffle around the
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: deck of projects that we have. So that might mean
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: a delay in new parks, new playground equipment, new infrastructure,
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: roads might have to be wait, or we have to
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: go issue more debt, get more bonds to potentially pay
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: for that.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I believe that if you made it to that point,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: a bond issue, which, well, if you made it to
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the point where you did, that everybody said, yeah, you
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: can do this.
• 46:55
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I don't think a go fund me is a bad thing.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I think you would probably get enough money just from
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the businesses that have been affected by it.
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: Exactly. And, and you know, I 100% agree that there's
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: probably been some complications with the businesses along Texas Avenue.
• 47:12
  Speaker 7: I hate to see that. My wife and I own
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: a small business as well. I can't imagine how some
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: of those companies have had to pivot and change things
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: and the impact that it may have had. And that's
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: the part that, you know, having to go an extra
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: block is not an inconvenience to me. If it's a
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: safer route for me and my family to go, I
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: don't have a problem with that. The businesses that have suffered...
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: You know, that's something we do need to figure out.
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: Maybe there's some strategic areas that we can cut into
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: those meetings to help out as many as we can. But,
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: you know, it's going back to the GoFundMe for that.
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: You know, I've talked to just as many people that said,
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: we don't mind the meetings.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: We like the meetings for certain reasons. And typically that's
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: a quieter voice.
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: It's a quieter voice. It's a 50-50 split. And the
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: people who are advocating for the $ 8 million that are
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: to remove this, They don't have a problem spending the
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: taxpayer who's paid their taxes. And like the Medians, they
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: don't have a problem spending their money. So maybe that
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: GoFundMe is the opportunity for everybody.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I believe it's a moot point. I don't think
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: that there's no way TxDOT is going to– I mean,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: that sets a horrible precedent.
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: For TxDOT to do that. The trick is what you said,
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: to find a traffic engineer that would say, I say–
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: that you can remove this and it will be just
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: as safe. That's a liability nightmare. It's just very difficult
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: to imagine finding someone. But look, I mean, bottom line,
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: it is still on the ballot.
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: It's on the ballot.
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: And honestly, I think what we will learn at the
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: end of the cycle, and we're actually counting all these
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: up and whether it passed, doesn't pass, whatever, you will
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: get the definitive split on this issue. And again, like
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: you said, Will, I think people who are cool with them,
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: it's a much quieter voice. You don't notice them as much.
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: But is it really that groundswell of a support to
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: get rid of them? We're going to find out.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know that it's a definitive thing because
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: voter turnout is still at such a level. It gives
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: you a better idea than a typical survey might.
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: You do have to go vote. obviously, to make this work.
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: What else do we want to get to today?
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: You brought up voting. So early voting starts on October 19th.
• 49:27
  Speaker 7: I believe election day is November 3rd this year. So
• 49:30
  Speaker 7: certainly want to encourage as many people to get out
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: and start that early voting. We've got some great candidates
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  Speaker 7: on the ballot this year. both in City of Bryan,
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: City College Station, and the county. So I encourage people
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: to be informed, educated, go visit their websites, reach out
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  Speaker 7: to them directly to get some information, and ask the
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: questions that you want the answers to.
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  Speaker 1: Visit our website, and you can see all of the
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: candidate interviews and all of the stuff done from Tuesday.
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: We just saw you all at the candidate school on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 6: That was a great time, man.
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  Speaker 1: It was. One of the.
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: Coolest parts about that– I know y'all are going to
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: them every– people are going to them every night. They're
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: having them every night for school board, for council, mayoral races, statehouse, everything.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: The level of quality– it's just nice to go to
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: some political events where it doesn't involve a fistfight or
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: the risk of one.
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  Speaker 14: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Lots of good people with lots of good ideas. Someone's
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: going to win. Someone's going to lose. But pretty quality
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: representation on all sides on a lot of these races.
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: And we will have another one Monday for all of
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: the council meetings.
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  Speaker 1: So be ready.
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  Speaker 12: All right.
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: Anything else?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we had the Singer-Songwriter Festival down at Bryan
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: this past weekend. My family and I got a chance
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: to go out there.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think, man?
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  Speaker 7: I had a blast.
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: I saw some great videos, man.
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: The venues were great. The artists were great. We had
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: a fantastic turnout. You know, City Brian, Destination Brian, Kyle Hutton,
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: and his group were all essential in getting that down there.
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: So it was a Friday-Saturday event. Fantastic, fantastic time.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: It's a great lineup, and it's a great event. I
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: couldn't go, but I wanted to.
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  Speaker 7: It was their second annual, so I'm hoping that they'll
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: be back next year.
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: I really hope that's going to grow.
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, some other great stuff happening in the city
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: of Bryan. We're still continuing to make headway on our
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: Midtown Park playground, signature playground. So that's going to hopefully
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: be done here in the next few months. But lots
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: of great things happening in the city of Bryan.
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: Brother, thank you so much for coming in. Catch you
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: next time.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: I'm Bobby Gutierrez.
• 51:38
  Speaker 32: Serving as the mayor of the city I love has
• 51:40
  Speaker 32: been one of the greatest honors of my life.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Together, we've accomplished a lot.
• 51:44
  Speaker 32: New investments, stronger infrastructure, continued redevelopment, support for public safety,
• 51:49
  Speaker 32: and tremendous opportunities for our future. But I truly believe
• 51:52
  Speaker 32: Brian's greatest days are still ahead of us. There's more
• 51:54
  Speaker 32: to build, more opportunities to create, and more work to do.
• 51:57
  Speaker 32: I'm asking for your vote and your support to continue
• 51:59
  Speaker 32: serving as mayor. Our best days are ahead. Let's keep
• 52:02
  Speaker 32: Brian moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Paid for by the Bobby Gutierrez Campaign.
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  Speaker 18: Jason Bayenski, Treasurer.
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  Speaker 31: Does your sewing machine go clankety-clank or bang, bang, bang, bang?
• 52:11
  Speaker 31: If it does, you need to come on down to
• 52:12
  Speaker 31: Sovac City. Sovac City has been repairing sewing machines in
• 52:15
  Speaker 31: the Brazos Valley for almost.
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  Speaker 1: 30 years now.
• 52:18
  Speaker 31: We can fix most any home sewing machine from the
• 52:20
  Speaker 31: most simple to the big computerized embroidery machines. At Sovac City,
• 52:23
  Speaker 31: we stock thousands of parts so we can get your
• 52:25
  Speaker 31: machine back to you in a timely manner.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: We also guarantee our work. If it isn't right, we'll
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: make it right. Wonder if we're really that good?
• 52:32
  Speaker 31: Ask your neighbor.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: We probably fixed hers. Sovac City on the feeder road
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: between Deacon and Rock Prairie. Come on down and see us.
• 52:38
  Speaker 13: What do we really know about James Tallarico? Tallarico said.
• 52:42
  Speaker 27: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
• 52:46
  Speaker 13: Tallarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: young children. Claimed denying your child's gender identity is abusive.
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: Said the trans community needs abortion care too. and even
• 52:58
  Speaker 13: called Jesus a radical feminist and said God is non-binary.
• 53:03
  Speaker 27: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
• 53:06
  Speaker 13: But it gets worse. James Tallarico voted to allow biological
• 53:10
  Speaker 13: men access to women's bathrooms in schools and for biological
• 53:14
  Speaker 13: boys to play in girls' sports, saying some things are
• 53:18
  Speaker 13: more important than fair competition in sports.
• 53:21
  Speaker 27: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
• 53:25
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• 53:38
  Speaker 11: Your grocery bill's up. Your power bill's up. Now they
• 53:41
  Speaker 11: just voted to raise your property taxes, too. Howard Main
• 53:45
  Speaker 11: is running to make College Station more affordable. Reserve Deputy Constable.
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  Speaker 11: and fees, control spending, and protect the neighborhoods we call home.
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  Speaker 15: Charles Schwartner has a record of fighting for Texas and
• 54:12
  Speaker 15: delivering results. He took on human traffickers and protected our kids.
• 54:17
  Speaker 15: He passed safeguards against dangerous uses of AI, and he
• 54:20
  Speaker 15: fought for Texas energy production to bring down prices at
• 54:23
  Speaker 15: the pump and cut costs for small businesses. These aren't promises.
• 54:27
  Speaker 15: They're results that make a difference for Texas families.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Dr.
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  Speaker 15: Charles Schwartner, a proven leader for Texas. Political ad paid
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• 54:39
  Speaker 6: 1620-945-WTAW. Will is hitting the road. Dusty is coming in
• 54:45
  Speaker 6: to sub-forum tomorrow. Fly safe. Hotty toddy.
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: See you.