Steve Cichon
All Things Considered Host, Senior ReporterSteve Cichon is an award winning news anchor, reporter, author and historian. He's covered some of the region's biggest stories over the decades — from the Erie County budget crisis, to the crash of Flight 3407. Cichon joined BTPM NPR in December 2025 following several years as a high school English and religion teacher.
Cichon hosts the local edition of All Things Considered on BTPM NPR. He can be heard live on weekdays from 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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They are seemingly everywhere you turn in Western New York; “white elephant” buildings, structures that are historic or beloved but also vacant, underutilized, and in need of substantial financial investment to return to past glory and/or a future use. -
The No Kings Rally in Buffalo paid special attention to the plight of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. -
One of the great debates in Buffalo over the last decade or so has been: What should the Kensington Expressway look like for the next generation? -
Arts & CultureThe thousands of Burmese refugees in Buffalo come from a multitude of ethnic backgrounds, but their shared history of persecution carry a bond from Southeast Asia to Western New York. -
The Buffalo Dream Weavers are a group of social-media-connected Western New Yorkers who work to make the community a better place, one act of kindness at a time. -
The late Rev. Jesse Jackson urged people to think beyond retribution for the killer when speaking to a crowd of 600 in October 1980. -
At the age of 96, Buffalo community leader Brother Clifford Bell says there's plenty left to give after a lifetime of service. -
For the first time in 20 years, the City of Buffalo held an inauguration ceremony for a newly elected mayor, as Sean Ryan took his oath of office. -
For 38 years, Downtown Buffalo's Electric Building has been the place where Buffalo watches the New Year ball drop but people have been gathering around the building on important days for more than a century. -
During the holiday season, many folks cannot help but feel nostalgia for their childhood experiences. One BTPM NPR reporter looks back on some of his fond Christmas memories of years past.
