Friday Forum with The Waco Bridge

October 10 News Roundup + Interview With Alan Parker

By J.B. Smith,

Sam Shaw

Published October 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM CDT

This week on Friday Forum, JB Smith and guest host, Waco Bridge reporter, Sam Shaw, dive into the news of the week.

They'll be looking at some recent downtown developmental news, alongside the story of Sergio Garcia, a celebrated Waco restaurant owner who was deported to Mexico in March.

Plus JB speaks with director of the Wayne Fisher Jazz Program at Baylor about the upcoming Wynton Marsalis lecture and performance, November 13th.

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Friday Forum with The Waco Bridge

J.B. Smith

Before joining The Waco Bridge in February as editor-in-chief, J.B. Smith had 33 years of Texas journalism experience, most of it as local government reporter and managing editor at the Tribune-Herald. He has won numerous statewide awards for enterprise journalism, including a series on migrant deaths on the Mexico border. A Sulphur Springs native and Southwestern University graduate, he is grateful for the opportunity to build a nonprofit newsroom in his adopted hometown of Waco.

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Sam Shaw

Sam Shaw covers government and growth for the Bridge. Previously, he spent the past two years at the Longview News-Journal, where he covered county government, school board and environmental justice issues.

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