The Todd & Oz Show 6-8-26

Todd and Oz Show 6-9-26

Democrat Texas gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa held a press conference at the capitol this week to announce the creation of a new effort aimed at public schools as she says her "team texas public schools" initiative will train teachers, parents, and administrators to fight against school closures, especially in areas of the state she says are being hit the hardest, are roundabouts the answer to some of austin's mobility problems? love them or hate them, the city of Austin has continued to add more and more of them to various intersections, and by the end of the year, work is set to begin on the city's 50th roundabout, Ken Paxton launched an industry-wide investigation into protein powder manufacturers, he says to protect texans from heavy metals like lead and cadmium as Paxton mentioned in a release that consumer reports tested 23 products and found the lead levels in plant-based protein powders on average, nine times higher than those made with dairy proteins. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Todd & Oz Show 6-8-26

* Nearly a year after floods destroyed much of the Sandy Creek area, heavy rainfall caused major flooding Friday night and destroyed an animal sanctuary, President Trump says he had a tense exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over strikes in Iran, and prosecutors have rested their case in the murder trial of Karmelo Anthony See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Todd & Oz Show 6-5-26

Critics are slamming Austin Mayor Kirk Watson for taking a trip to Manchester as the city struggles to fund basic city services while also facing a $33 million budget deficit, a parent at an Austin Montessori school accidentally put a THC lollipop in a goodie bag for students and the Austin School Board got their first look at a proposed $181 million budget reduction plan. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Todd & Oz Show 6-4-26

The Austin ISD school board will be presented this evening with a plan to cut $181-million-dollars from the next year's budget to address a massive deficit as superintendent Matias Segura highlighted several of the planned cuts yesterday, including 558 district roles. he says that all employees with teaching certifications will be given alternate placements, while the district is working to find roles for those who are not certified when possible. An Austin ISD student in the country illegally was able to walk across the stage for graduation with his classmates this week. It was early last month when Luis Fernando Cabrera -- a senior at Northeast early college high school -- was detained by ICE officials following a traffic stop due to an expired registration, following the arrest, Cabrera had been held at the Karnes detention center until a judge ordered his release, and Texas parents are giving the public school system a failing grade as 15 percent of parents say the quality of education in their ISD is excellent, 41-percent call it good, 22 percent describing it as fair and 9 percent as poor. The numbers jump up a bit when talking about the parents of private, charter or home-schooled students. 66-percent rate their education as excellent. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Todd and Oz Show 6-3-26

The group behind a charter petition that would force regular external audits onto the city of Austin believes it has enough signatures to get that petition on the November ballot. Save Austin Now has officially handed those signatures over to the Austin city clerk as the petition requires the city of Austin to complete an external audit within a year of its passage, and to review its budget every five years, or no less than one year before the city of Austin asks voters for more money in a tax rate election, a new Texas law is adding tougher requirements for the companies behind operating driverless vehicles as senate bill 2807 imposes stricter rules on autonomous vehicle companies operating in the state, including state authorization, emergency response plans for law enforcement, and a public portal where residents can verify operators and file safety complaints, and new numbers from the city of Austin show the homeless population accounts for a significant share of all fatal auto-pedestrian crashes as the data shows 40-percent of the people who are hit by cars and die from their injuries are homeless. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.