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The Pflugerville City Council has decided to delay a planned vote on a two-year, $175,000 contract with Flock Safety Cameras, Austin Fire Chief Joel Baker is retiring after serving in the role for 8 years and the Hays ISD is rolling out new fees for students to participate in athletic programs following millions of dollars in budget cuts.

Some Austin City Council members have been hosting town halls to get public input on what to prioritize in the city's new $6.6 billion budget, Austin bus drivers have reached a new tentative agreement that would raise wages and provide more vacation time just ahead of an expected strike, the city's first since 2008 and President Trump has scoffed at Iran’s demand for reparations for devastation caused to the country by the U.S. and Israeli bombardment over the past five months, a demand he said Tehran’s negotiators hadn’t raised until now.

The U.S. Army is taking steps to decrease the amount of time it takes to develop weapons as the level of munitions stockpiled following months of military action in Iran becomes a national concern, the Austin ISD has reversed course on a plan to have middle and high school students gather at centralized bus hubs to get transportation to campus and Leander ISD Police Chief Sha Rogers has been placed on administrative leave following allegations of filing false information on a background check.

THE AUSTIN SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS BEEN FACING A LOT OF BACKLASH FROM PARENTS LATELY OVER CHANGES TO THE TRANSPORTATION POLICY. A HOUSTON MAN IS FACING A FELONY CHARGE IN TRAVIS COUNTY OVER ALLEGATIONS THAT HE MADE THREATS TOWARD GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT'S OFFICE. ELON MUSK'S SPACEX HAS BOLD PLANS FOR WHAT IS CALLED THE "GIGASAT FACTORY," WHICH WOULD EXPAND THE COMPANY'S STARLINK OPERATION IN BASTROP COUNTY. ALL THIS AND MORE ON THE FRIDAY EDITION OF THE TODD AND OZ SHOW!

Thursday August 6th 2026

Four Texas A&M professors are taking their board of regents to court over the new policy banning classroom discussion on race, gender or sexual orientation.There is a growing push to reign in the emerging world of prediction markets. Sites like Kalshi let users bet on just about anything. Some states have instituted bans, and Texas may be next. Austin ISD is replacing many neighborhood bus stops for middle and high school students with centralized transportation hubs. Students will either walk, bike, ride Capmetro, or be dropped off at the hubs before boarding a school bus that will take...

A group gathered outside of the Travis County district attorney's office demanding prosecution for three Austin police officers who shot and killed 17-year-old Anthoniel Williams ii last month as 911 audio shows Williams called to report someone with a gun at a Southeast Austin park. When officers arrived, they found Williams, who drew something from his waistband and pointed it at them. The officers returned fire and Williams was killed, but it later was determined he was only holding a water bottle. A Pflugerville barbecue joint is blaming the high cost of beef for having to close its doors, as Brotherton's...

SOME PEOPLE LIVING IN A SOUTH AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD ARE ASKING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO DO BETTER ABOUT SENDING OUT WARNINGS AND ALERTS. TEXAS WILL SOON BE SEEING MORE DRIVERLESS 18-WHEELERS ON THE ROAD. AHEAD OF AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS" INITIATIVE, THE HEAD OF THE AUSTIN POLICE OVERSIGHT OFFICE WEIGHED IN ON THE RECENT SHOOTING OF A TEEN BY AUSTIN POLICE. ALL THIS AND MORE ON TODAY'S EPISODE OF THE TODD AND OZ SHOW!

A 19-YEAR-OLD MAN IS BEHIND BARS AFTER HE WAS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING MULTIPLE PEOPLE AT A SOUTH AUSTIN MOTEL. THE AUSTIN SCHOOL BOARD HAS VOTED TO CLOSE PAREDES MIDDLE SCHOOL AHEAD OF THE START OF THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR. AUSTIN MAYOR PRO TEM CHITO VELA IS DOWNPLAYING THE RESULTS OF A RECENT AUDIT THAT LOOKED AT MORE THAN TWO-DOZEN NONPROFITS. ALL THIS AND MORE ON THE FRIDAY EDITION OF THE TODD AND OZ SHOW!

New video footage of the shooting of 17 year-old Anthoniel Williams has been released, a federal lawsuit has been filed by an Austin homeowner facing a near $9,000 fine for trimming tree limbs and Save Austin Now's Matt Mackoviak joins the show to discuss a recent report that revealed 19 out of 25 nonprofits receiving taxpayer money failed to meet their contractually obligated goals.

Dr. Anthony Fauci invokes the Fifth Amendment in a fiery Senate committee hearing about the origins of the coronavirus and response to the pandemic, the Austin Police Department's North Metro Tactical Unit says it took down an organized criminal enterprise operating out of north Austin and parents showed up to an AISD meeting last night to slam the district's plan to close down Paredes Middle School.

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The Georgetown ISD is drawing up plans for a tax rate election this fall to increase teacher pay and cover rising operational costs, the Austin Police Department has been forced to move staff from its downtown headquarters to other facilities due to mold being discovered in the building's HVAC system and Sandy Creek residents are questioning where the flood sirens are that were supposed to be installed due to a new state law stating that flood warning systems be installed in flood-prone counties.

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Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis says a teenager shot by police early Friday morning may have been a case of "suicide by police", new statistics show that over 102,000 Texas families were approved for education savings accounts with the vast majority of them being low-income and Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller is renewing his call for a special session to address the impact data centers may have.

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A new crime report shows that Austin has seen the nation's highest increase in homicides over the last 7 years, The Austin City Council has approved the Dog's Head tax increment reinvestment zone (TIRZ) despite strong pushback and a deal that would allow Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, under the condition that they recognize Israel, is in the works.

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President Trump is ramping up his threats towards Iran after CENTCOM announced four service members were killed this weekend, the Austin ISD has left some families scrambling for answers after proposing the closure of Parades Middle School with the new school year just weeks away and some Hays County residents are unhappy with the lack of communication regarding an escaped inmate that has now been captured.

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The Austin city council is being blasted for its latest budget proposal, which critics say will continue to make the city unaffordable after an analysis of the $6.6-billion-dollar proposal shows that it will cost the average capitol-area homeowner about $350 more per year, the Austin school district has called off a planned partnership with a nonprofit that was going to take over three middle schools next year as they were hoping to partner with the Texas Council for International Studies in an effort to prevent a state takeover of the entire district, but the Texas education agency rejected that plan...

Iran launched new attacks targeting U.S. allies after three American troops were killed in the escalating conflict, as the U.S. continued strikes on Iranian military targets, a suspect accused of setting an incendiary fire outside a New York City federal building was taken into custody after authorities said he carried anti-ice materials, allegedly used fireworks and a flammable liquid to start the fire, and caused two minor injuries, Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent has just found $100 million in fraudulent payments that would've otherwise gone to deceased people and Bessent says there might be $500 billion in total fraud, and...

The City of Austin has issued waterway bans for part of this week in response to flood gate operations ordered by the Lower Colorado River Authority, one of the victims of last week's flooding has been identified as a graduate of Westlake High School and the City of Austin is considering a charter that would only allow citizen-led petitions to make it onto the ballot in an even-numbered year.

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Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax has formally unveiled the new proposed budget for next year at a price tag of $6.6 billion, representing an increase of $300 million from last year, San Marcos investigators have created a tip line in hopes of getting new leads in the deadly fire that killed five people at the Iconic Village Apartments back in 2018 and in an address to the nation last night President Trump announced his administration will release declassified documents he says show evidence previous administrations worked to cover up mass voter fraud.

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The Austin Transit Partnership board has given its approval for a contract with Stadler US inc, who will be tasked with designing and building 21 train cars for the planned light rail line with the initial contract will be for $39-million-dollars, but the delivery of all 21 train cars will come with a much larger price tag -- $353-million-dollars, Travis county commissioners this week have unanimously voted to oppose a wastewater permit for a proposed development west of Austin called "white rocks" , nearly three-dozen guns have gone missing from a Pflugerville gun store, and now the federal government is stepping in...

Congressional Democrats are holding ICE's feet to the fire over that shooting in Houston as the congressional Hispanic caucus will hold a hearing in Houston next week and congresswoman Sylvia Garcia says they need the public's input because the agency is not releasing details, Austin-area state rep. and Democrat candidate for lieutenant governor Vikki Goodwin is calling on governor Greg Abbott to get lawmakers back at the capitol for a special session on data centers, and Goodwin was joined at a press conference yesterday by various local elected officials from Austin, San Marcos, and Hays county, the Central Texas...

With storms in the forecast for the next few days, Governor Greg Abbott is warning that things could turn dangerous, the Austin police department is out with new details on an officer-involved shooting over the weekend on Saturday, as Chief Lisa Davis says 911 received multiple calls about a man riding a scooter who was armed with a handgun and she says officers were on the scene within two minutes, but it took a few hours before they finally tracked the man down near the butler hike and bike trail, and opened fire when the suspect pulled the firearm on...

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham suddenly passed away over the weekend, Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax has released a proposed budget for next year totaling $6.6 billion and a new city ordinance that requires landlords to disclose all rental fees to potential tenants up front will take effect this fall.

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There was plenty of anger at the Taylor city council meeting last night after city officials announced that a citizen-led petition trying to restrict future data center development could not move forward, over $100,000 has been spent by the city of Austin since October removing graffiti and a new homeless navigation center operated by the local nonprofit We Can Now is opening in north Austin.

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State senator Charles Perry is vowing to introduce another bill next legislative session to fully ban THC in Texas, and that's leaving a lot of business owners feeling even more uncertain about their future as Estella Castro owns Austinite Cannabis Co on Cesar Chavez and she tells cbs austin she opened her store soon after state lawmakers approved new hemp laws back in 2019 and she says there have been ongoing concerns since last year when lawmakers first began targeting the THC industry, another protest was held yesterday demanding that city and county officials do everything they can to keep...

The city of Austin has already taken down multiple murals to come into compliance with a new order from governor Greg Abbott that prohibits political street art, and now the rainbow crosswalks at places like Fourth and Colorado are next in line to be painted over, the city of Austin has opened the application window for millions of dollars in grant funding for local artists and musicians as $23-million-dollars has been made available, and the funding comes from the city's hotel occupancy tax revenue, an Austin neighborhood is testing out a new gunshot detection system, and Texas parks and...

The City of Austin says hundreds of tons of trash and debris have been cleaned out of homeless camps as part of a new homeless camp management initiative that started back in May, multiple agencies are investigating a deadly shooting that happened over the weekend at a bar in north Austin and President Trump is meeting NATO leaders today at a summit in Turkey.

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The City of Austin has completed a recent order from Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Transportation directing cities to remove political street art, a violent weekend in Austin has police investigating multiple deadly shootings and President Trump held a press conference for the formal launch of Trump Accounts.

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Governor Greg Abbott is calling for a moratorium on new data center construction, an Austin priest continues to recover after being stabbed in the neck multiple times by a waiter at a downtown steak house and Austin Councilwoman Paige Ellis is gathering petition signatures in order to run for a third term.

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Workers employed by Keolis, the company that operates transit services for capmetro, have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike if contract negotiations fail to produce a new labor agreement, Governor Abbott was in east Texas rolling out his latest property tax plan that he claims will cut your yearly bill in half forever while Democratic senate hopeful James Talarico is calling the decision to keep birthright citizenship a victory for the constitution and a protection that should not be up for political debate, and Austin Democratic congressman Greg Casar is slamming oracle following reports that the tech company has...

Texas attorney general and republican senate candidate Ken Paxton has issued a response to the latest slam by democrat opponent James Talarico, who recently accused Paxton of not being Texas enough, and being too bogged down by corruption to represent the state of Texas in the senate, Austin's potholes are more than just a nuisance as they can damage cars and cost taxpayers an average of $1,300 to permanently repair. But now waymo's self-driving cars are on the hunt for potholes with the city using waymo's data to fix roads, and the supreme court vote happened today to decide whether...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, the Texas State Board of Education has officially passed a revised reading list that includes passages from the Bible and the Austin school district is delaying its district-wide school boundary realignment for another year.

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The addition of biblical stories into the public school curriculum is expected to come up for a vote today by the Texas State Board of Education, Texas is seeing a higher birth rate compared to the rest of the country and Save Austin Now's Matt Mackoviak joins the show to discuss the option for voters to approve an external city audit this fall.

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The owners of Camp Mystic filed for bankruptcy in Houston early this morning as they claim debt in excess of $10-million, with assets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars… 27 girls from the camp were killed last year in the July 4th flooding, Austin police have been busy this month investigating several homicides, the most recent of which happened just yesterday in southeast Austin which is the fifth murder reported in Austin in less than two weeks, and Mendez says police are working as hard as they can to keep people safe, homelessness and mental health were topics of di...

Central Texas residents urging local leaders to take a tougher stance on proposed data centers got a response this week in Hays county, where commissioners approved what they called one of the strongest industrial high-water resolutions in Texas, Travis county district attorney Jose Garza has caught the attention of the lawmakers in the nation's capital as congressmen chip roy and Jim Jordan are among the lawmakers who are demanding that Garza's office hand over records related to interactions with federal immigration authorities, as well as records on the treatment of non-citizen defendants,  senator Cornyn says he will play hardball i...

Patrick Osborn and Brad Swayle in studio today with Todd out, discussing the FIFA World Cup, the Texas Education Agency proposing a new social studies curriculum to be implemented into the public schools with information involving stories from the bible that have historical evidence, Iranian authorities say they will not allow nuclear inspections into their country as part of the peace deal with the US, and Donald Trump threatens more action if Iran does not cooperate. 

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Vice President JD Vance told reporters in Switzerland that inspectors could be in Iran as soon as this week as negotiations with Iran resumed after a pause over the weekend, the Texas State Board of Education will meet this week to vote on a new controversial social studies curriculum and Austin Police have ruled that a shooting in southeast Austin that left a husband and wife dead was a murder-suicide.

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Sweden's Foreign Ministry has announced that planned talks between the U-S and Iran have been postponed, new details in the investigation of a south Texas plane crash reveal the pilot radioed the tower before the crash, stating there were mechanical issues with the plane and the Austin City Auditor's Office says in a new report that more than a half-dozen Austin Energy employees violated city policy by using city vehicles for personal use.

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The Austin city council's quest for density is causing some concern for at least one member of the city's zoning and platting commission. Lonny Stern represents district 3 on the commission and he says the city should force large housing developments to create public walkways through them so people don't have to walk all the way around them while critics of such an idea says allowing the public to cut through a private housing development would invite much more crime and concerns about the safety of children , Austin’s long-debated light rail project moved into another phase as the Austin tr...

Austin police are investigating the deaths of a man and a woman in southeast Austin as officer Austin Zarling says there were multiple calls made to 911 asking about a welfare check of a husband and wife at a home in the 4700 block of Oltorf saying the 911 calls were placed just before 3:15 p.m., but officers didn't actually arrive at the house until 6:20 p.m. , new restrictions on what Texans can buy with their snap benefits have been in place since April, but some critics say those new restrictions are causing too much confusion for struggling families, and for grocery...