The Todd and Oz Show

The Austin City Council approved over a billion dollars in bonds and contracts with very little debate, a San Antonio mother accused of helping her son plan a school shooting has had a terrorism charge dropped and the planned drawdown for Lake Austin has been cancelled.

Austin officials say they're working on relocating the rideshare location at the city's airport, The Austin City Council will vote today on whether to give over $850,000 to "deportation defense" initiatives and the skeletal remains of a Texas State student that's been missing since 2020 have been found.

New bodycam footage related to the ICE shooting in north Austin over the weekend appears to contradict some details given by the victim's attorney, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has told the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stop all permits for data centers and U.S. House District 37 candidate Lauren B. Pena joins the show.

Austin City Council District 5 candidate David Weinberg joins the show.

A protest erupted yesterday in north Austin after an immigration agent shot a man they were attempting to apprehend, the Hutto City Council has formally voted to stop using Flock cameras and the Austin school district has launched a dashboard that officials say will allow the community to track student performance and teacher quality for schools that have received a failing rating.

Capital Metro is considering its first fare increase in more than a decade. A consultant report is pushing back on a plan approved by the Austin City Council to create a standalone 911 call center. Also, an interview with District 1 council member nominee Portia Riggins. All this and more on the Friday edition of the Todd and Oz Show!

Capital Metro is considering its first fare increase in over a decade, pedicab operators want the Austin City Council to crackdown on operators not following city code and Austin City Council District 1 candidate Michael Nahas joins the show.

The Travis County Commissioners Court has approved a new budget and tax rate for the Central Health district, Texas officials have taken steps to shore up the state's scandal-plagued lottery system and Austin City Council District 9 candidate Katie Kam joins the show.

The Travis County Clerk held a public event yesterday to showcase its "logic and accuracy" testing ahead of the midterm elections, Hays County has voted to fund a 10-year contract with Axon safety cameras and Austin City Councilman Ryan Alter joins the show.

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Transportation officials from Texas and the federal government are in Fort Worth today to watch test flights for a new "air taxi." Business owners along Lake Austin continue to plead with city officials for help amid a plan by the Lower Colorado River Authority to lower Lake Austin by 10 feet during one of the busier times of year on the water. Todd and Oz delve into these topics today, along with covering the 9/11 remembrance ceremony in New York, on a special Friday edition of the Todd and Oz Show.

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson is calling on parents at Burnet and Webb middle schools to petition for the closure of those campuses, the Kyle City Council has voted to draft ballot language for a May election to let voters decide on the use of Flock cameras, businesses along Lake Austin are slamming the City of Austin over a plan to lower the water level by ten feet and Austin City Council District 1 candidate Steven Brown joins the show.

The Bastrop City Council unanimously voted to do away with their Flock safety cameras, the first GOP convention to be held in a midterm year kicks off in Dallas today and the Austin Public Safety Commission postponed making a recommendation the the city council on the use of cameras to enforce parking rules.

Tomorrow the Central Health Board of Managers will vote on a proposed budget and property tax hike, the Texas State Board of Education has approved a new high school social studies curriculum that critics are slamming as anti-Islamic and Texas State Comptroller Don Huffines wants to increase the budget for the state's school voucher program.

This morning, the Labor Department released the key jobs report for August. The City of Manor is the latest in Central Texas to decide to do away with its Flock Safety cameras. A Lindsay Clancy judge says he’ll declare a mistrial, but grants the defense one hour to appeal. The guys cover all this and more on the Friday edition of the show!

The Marble Falls school district is pushing back on a proposal by Governor Greg Abbott to ban H-1B visa holders from working in Texas public schools, the Save Our Springs Alliance staged a protest at a data center conference in Austin and a new poll shows that Governor Greg Abbott is virtually tied with Gina Hinajosa in the race for Texas governor.

Williamson County Commissioners have approved a new budget for the next fiscal year with a lowered tax rate, the Bastrop City Council voted last night to immediately cover the city's Flock safety cameras and to consider terminating the contract with Flock and a woman has been arrested and charged for allegedly filming jurors in the Lindsey Clancy trial.

Democrat gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa hosted a press conference in El Paso yesterday to slam the data center industry as the state Senate is expected to do a deep dive on water use by data centers and new data shows there's been a 35% increase in eviction filings in Travis County.

The city of Austin has turned to the homeless for help in decorating the parking garage at the downtown public library as artists worked on 43 murals in the garage as part of the city's "art for all" project after the city council set aside $1-million-dollars in 2021 for projects focused on the homeless, and the "art for all" program was created using that funding, the Georgetown square is back to normal operations following a weekend shooting involving a man and a police officer, some Texas cities and counties continue to raise concerns about whether local infrastructure can keep up with the rapid growth of data centers, and City Council Candidate Selena Xie joins the program to discuss her agenda in running for the district 8 seat of the city council.

A petition to ban personal watercraft on Lake Austin is gaining some traction. President Trump is renaming a Great Lake. ustin City Council voted unanimously to start rewriting city code on data centers. We talk about all of this and more on the Friday edition of the Todd and Oz Show!

Dozens of Liberty Hill residents showed up to last night's city council meeting to demand that the city ends their contract with Flock camera systems, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is threatening to lower the ratings of schools whose libraries possess offensive or pornographic material and closing arguments were heard in the Lindsey Clancy trial.

The City of Pflugerville has shut down its entire system of Flock safety cameras after it was learned that they had been accessed by hundreds of different agencies without approval, the Austin City Council will vote tomorrow on proposed regulations for large-scale data centers and tributes are pouring in for the late Dolly Parton who passed away yesterday.

A CapMetro board member is being accused of trying to downplay the issue of rider safety at a board meeting last night, Austin District 8 Councilwoman Paige Ellis failed to secure enough signatures on a petition that would allow her to run for a third term and Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking the state's Department of Insurance to take action to make property and casualty insurance more affordable.

The Austin Police Department is stepping up patrols at the city's library, the Leander City Council has scrapped a four-acre lagoon that was part of a major development and the Bastrop City Council will discuss flock cameras and data center permitting at its upcoming meeting.

Leander City Council shot down changes to the 78-acre Leander Springs development agreement yesterday, Iran is calling new sanctions placed on it "economic terrorism" and Travis County Judge Andy Brown is renewing a push for a rail system between San Antonio and Austin following the release of a new feasibility study.

The Austin City Council has released a memo about regulating the construction of data centers, Bastrop city officials are considering an audit and possible policy changes for the city's Clock safety camera system and dozens of protesters gathered outside of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission meeting yesterday to demand an end to all plans for a border wall in Big Bend National Park.

The Taylor Zoning & Planning commission voted to delay a proposed data center after pushback from residents, federal prosecutors have announced a new program in Texas to crack down on school districts that don't properly report accusations against teachers and the State of Minnesota is suing Governor Greg Abbott over the extradition of an ICE agent that DPS helped arrest

The Leander ISD will put a tax rate increase on the ballot this fall to address the district's $9.9 million budget deficit, Customs and Border Protection says its pausing construction on part of the border wall in Big Bend National Park following multiple protests against its construction and officials from the City of Austin and the Austin ISD gathered yesterday to discuss safety and safe routes to campus as more than 70,000 kids begin the new school year.

Some community activists are pushing for the Texas Education Agency to reconsider its rejection of the AISD's proposed partnership with a nonprofit to help turn around some of the districts failing middle schools, Texans can now buy silencers and short-barreled firearms without having to register them with the federal government and the U.S. and Iran are reaching the end of their 60 day ceasefire and have yet to reach a new deal.

The Austin ISD is facing the possibility of a state takeover after the latest school accountability ratings have been released, the deadline for U. S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton to accept an invite to debate his opponent James Talarico has passed and the Trump administration has warned two Texas hospitals that they cannot withhold medical treatment from a newborn that's at the center of a surrogate dispute.

The Austin City Council voted 9-2 to pass a $6.6 billion budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, the Department of Justice is cracking down on "immigration fraud" after announcing charges in an alleged sham marriage scheme that helped Chinese Nationals gain green cards and the former CFO of the Southern Poverty Law Center Heidi Beirich has been arrested and is accused of overseeing fraudulent donor payments to informants inside hate groups

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 them all to campus, and Governor Greg Abbott is finding plenty of support for his moratorium on new data center developments, which he says will be in place until Texas energy regulators can conduct a comprehensive audit of all data center projects that want to connect to the power grid.

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 Black Iron Barbecue will be closing at the end of the month after co-owner Nathan Lewis tells KXAN he thinks the price of beef has become "outrageous," and he says that high cost has made stay open unsustainable. Texas is one of 17 states facing legal action over poor conditions in immigration detention centers as 55-year-old Elton Purvis is seeking $10 million in damages for medical neglect and mistreatment he claims to have experienced in the 7 months detained at the South Texas detention complex in Pearsall. Purvis has type 1 diabetes, and his attorney is Caro Rivera Nelson with the ACLU of Texas.

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.