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Equipment failures may have hampered the Buffalo FIre Department's ability to fight fires in an already difficult blizzard. Also, a Bills weekend game preview, and stories from the barber to the Bills- including Damar Hamlin. And if it's Friday, it's Theater Talk.

Buffalo city council hearings into the Christmas blizzard reveal that the city's fire commissioner was out of town during the blizzard. Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her choice for NYS Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals. And a planning group is recommending the state un-hook the Scajaquada Expressway from the I-190, Route 33, and Route 198— and make it into a two- lane parkway.

The state senate's judiciary committee has rejected Gov. Hochul's chief judge nominee . Erie County Republican elections commissioner Ralph Mohr is suing to reject the county legislature's proposed districts.

The shutdown of a WNY nursing home accused of fraud and bad care, the latest numbers on COVID cases in WNY, and a ban on crypto currency mining- the use of massive amounts of electricity from fossil fuels to power Bitcoin computers- is underway in NYS.

Geoff Kelly (Twitter: @ghkelly1969) from Investigative Post (@ipostnews) continues his reporting on Buffalo police, sharing his latest on racist attitudes and use of the N word in the department. Then Jason Corwin, Ph.D. (Onödowa'ga:'), a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at UB (Twitter: @UBuffalo) talks with Jay Moran about various issues including the recent launch of a full Indigenous Studies Dept, there.

For 30 years, Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian, Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. As part of BTPM (Buffalo Toronto Public Media), their beat is primarily Buffalo theater, but Broadway, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, are covered as other relevant art forms are touched on, including ballet and opera.

Michael Badger from Bethesda World Harvest International talks about what the East side needs, and speak about his support for the Grieving Families Act pending before Governor Kathy Hochul. Then Stephanie Simeon of Heart of the City Neighborhoods and Ashley Smith from GO Bike Buffalo talks about transportation, equity and the East Side trail plan.

Dr. Lori Quigley, Chairwoman, Seneca Gaming Corporation (Twitter:@The Best8Hours) is a member of the Seneca Nation, and the Wolf Clan. She talks with Jay Moran about the economic impact of gaming in WNY, but also of the efforts to preserve the Seneca language, and the troubled history of Native American residential boarding schools.

If it's Friday, it's Theater Talk today with Anthony and Peter with some behind the scenes information on a lawsuit at Shea's, and several plays, musicals, ballets and opera openings. Also an agreement - this time- between Democrats and Republicans on re-drawing NYS assembly districts. And approval of an Erie County budget that includes a property tax decrease, news of a toll increase on the Thruway, and a state report that shows harsher discipline for Black prisoners than others in NYS.

In our weekly “Producers’ Picks” episode we bring you highlights of recent important interviews with: Reggie Keith, operator of Canna House, Tammy Simon-Baldon, advocate for STEM education, Larry Stitts, chief coffee roaster, owner/operator “The Golden Cup”, and Talia Rodriguez, Associate Director, West Side Promise Neighborhood.