The Todd & Oz Show 6-30-26

The Todd & Oz Show 6-30-26

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 ban on trans athletes in women's sports was held up and birthright citizenship being removed or restricted from the US constitution. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Todd & Oz Show 6-29-26

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. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Todd & Oz Show 6-26-26

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. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Todd & Oz Show 6-25-26

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 discussion this week at the Texas capitol after the house intergovernmental affairs committee held a hearing to discuss the challenges police officers face when dealing with homeless people with severe drug and mental health issues, and new polling on data centers in Texas is painting a clear picture as the polling, laid out in a legislative committee this week, found the vast majority Texans do not want a data center built in their community. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Todd & Oz Show 6-24-26

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 in his final six months in office if he has to as he told Semafor that he told senate republican leadership that in order for him to vote on a 70-billion dollar immigration spending bill, the White House must reimburse Texas for border security spending, and Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is sitting on a 2-percent lead over his democrat senate opponent, James Talarico. 49-percent of 800 likely Texas voters support Paxton for senate, 47-percent are behind Talarico. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.