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Friday Forum with The Waco Bridge

January 9 News Roundup + Interview with Waco ISD's Dr. Tiffany Spicer

By Molly-Jo Tilton,
J.B. Smith
Published January 9, 2026 at 10:53 AM CST

This week, co-hosts Molly-Jo Tilton and JB Smith will be looking at the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office's controversial new partnership with ICE and the Waco city manager search.

Plus, Molly-Jo Tilton speaks with Waco ISD Superintendent, Dr. Tiffany Spicer about her first year with Waco ISD, new programs at the middle schools and the future of Waco ISD.

Plus this week's trivia question: Waco has seen a wave of warm winter days over the last week, which could be ending soon. Most of those days were record breakers, some going all the way back to the 50s. How many record-breaking days in a row did we have over the last week? Listen to this week's Friday Forum to find out!

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Friday Forum with The Waco Bridge
Molly-Jo Tilton
Molly-Jo Tilton joined KWBU in 2024 as the station's Multimedia Reporter. She covers all things Waco for KWBU, from City Council to the local arts scene. Her work has appeared on The Texas Standard and NPR's All Things Considered.
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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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