The Todd and Oz Show

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 for privacy information.

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 for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 transit partnership met this week to discuss design and pre-construction work, and the discussion comes as some businesses along the planned route continue to raise concerns about losing customers, or potential displacement, also there is some concern here in Texas over what is coming to new cars as there is a growing push to repeal an impending government mandate that requires all new cars to have technology to monitor driver's behavior, as a way to stop drunk driving.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Texas ranchers may be holding back on reporting screwworm infestations out of fear of the federal government's response as Robin Giles has been working the 13-thousand-acre hillingdon ranch in the hill country for 70 years that’s been in his family for over 130 years saying he's seen it all, including screwworms, the city of Austin is looking for a contractor to help out with the task of taking an inventory of the city's trees as city leaders say they want to follow the lead of other cities like Dallas, Denton, and Chicago who have all completed tree inventories, and the Texas education agency today is set to release the results of the STAAR test for grades 3 through 8. and the results could be very impactful for the Austin school district as Dobie, Webb, and Burnet middle schools have all failed to meet basic academic standards for four straight years and the STAAR test results factor largely into the T-E-A's overall accountability ratings for schools, and Austin ISD superintendent Matias Segura has been sounding the alarm that a fifth failing grade for any of those schools could cost them their local control.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.