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The Bus Conundrum: WBFO’s Mike Desmond looks at the continued need for public transportation to go where the jobs are and stay there even after new hires buy vehicles with their paychecks. Also a new home for the VIVE center, and reform, removal and realignment plans for the Scajaquada Expressway.

If it’s Friday, it’s Theater Talk –unveiling a June 5th Arties Awards date even though “ The theater season is alive and limping,” post-COVID. A Mother’s Day look at help for homeless moms , and Gov. Hochul wants federal funding to handle the influx of women who could come to NYS for heath care if Roe v. Wade is struck down.

It’s primary day with Governor and Lt. Governor races taking center stage. Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt has the latest. Also, hear what the Supreme Court abortion decision means for women of color in WNY, and a poll worker pleads guilty to adding Byron Brown’s name to mayoral ballots last year.

In this episode, Jalonda Hill breaks through stereotypes as she centers black women in Buffalo, NY to use the skill of cycling to better the community around the issue of mobility justice. Next, we welcome parent advocate and writer Tarja Parssinen to talk about the science of reading, the WNY Education Alliance and their new literacy partnership focused on improving poor literacy rates in Buffalo and throughout NY.

Brigid Jaipaul-Valenza will be with Kishia Douglas, a Tops customer who was in line at the registers during the shooting. Then Dave Debo speaks with Rev. John Sullivan of the New Cedar Grove Life Changing Church about a community push to bring Wegman’s there, and activist Myles Carter talks about his work with and for the Tops workers.

For over 25 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.

If it’s Friday it’s Theater Talk with today’s round up of what’s on the boards, and what’s closing. Also, Canadian border protests are coming to the Peace Bridge, racial equity and medical treatment, and more mask debate in Albany.

Hear from parents after last night’s shooting and stabbing outside McKinley HS. Also, Buffalo School Bd. Pres. Lou Petrucci, and Jay’s weekly talk on COVID with Dr. Nancy Nielsen MD

Fewer and fewer students are bothering to fill out the universal FAFSA student aid forms for colleges; a new study looks at some of the compliance rates. Also the debate over whether to relieve pressure at the pump and suspend the state’s gasoline taxes, and a Women’s History Month conversation with Erie County Legislature chair April Baskin.

After a strike at Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital this past year, now Kaleida Health has begun talks with it’s largest labor unions. And speaking of labor unions, hear from Buffalo-area Starbucks organizers reacting to the return of Howard Schultz as CEO. Also debunking reports of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s comeback, and looking at the debate over NYS gasoline taxes.