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A look back at last week's Republican party primary election, and whether Carl Paladino's loss indicates a step back from his racist comments in the past. Also, how the state's newest gun laws are playing out with long lines for permits at clerks' offices statewide, and some new proposed health recommendations that say Canadians should have no more than two drinks per week, a limit that was previously just for one day. And an update on where farm food scraps go... and how many pounds of them there are in the entire state.

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.

During the 2016-2017 school year, Buffalo Public Schools suspended more than 30.7% of Black male students — nearly one in three—according to a 2018 report called “Stolen Time” by The New York Equity Coalition. About one in five of all Black students were suspended compared to about one of every 12 white students. It’s a trend that holds nationwide too. Today, our week of education topics continues with a look at the school to prison pipeline, and how the concept of Restorative Justice can be used and is being used to impart an alternative discipline system that cuts the pipeline off at the start.

If it's Friday, it's Theater Talk- today a recap of openings and closings at Chautauqua, Shawfest and Kavinoky- and the management changes at Shea's. Also, there's pressure to have Canadian border officials ditch their online vaccination verification app for travelers. And Jay Moran goes behind the scenes at Artpark where 13 red dresses hang from trees, representing missing and murdered indigenous women that traditionally get little attention.

The school year is underway- and schedule changes are in place so districts can deal with a shortage of school bus drivers. The newer lower threshold is in place that allows farm workers to get overtime after 40 hours instead of the current 60, and a statewide poll shows support for Pres. Biden's student loan foregiveness effort.

During crisis, community centers and faith organizations step forward to help a community through their struggles. Amy Betros from St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy talks about their response and what the community needs, Then Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold - former Buffalo School Board President and historian talks about why children need to learn about race, history and oppression.

Today, how the rural school districts without robust public transit or a big population, cope with the shortage of school bus drivers. Also, the latest changes in overtime rules for farm workers. Prosecutors say they have a mountain of evidence in the case of the Chautauqua Institution stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, and an end to the mask mandate on public transit.

Our week of education topics continues with Dr. Catherine Fisher Collins, the WNY representative on the NYS Board of Regents with Dave Debo to talk about race, curriculum and related matters. And then he speaks with Leah Watson of the ACLU on education and censorship of what teachers are allowed to teach.

In Ontario, there are predictions of yet another large COVID wave coming as children return to school. And the debate over whipped cream chargers- and even the whipped cream canisters in the grocery stores - and whether you need to be 21 in order to buy one. Also Jay Moran with the creators of the movie "Chicken Strips: The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Garage Band"

Earlier this year TIME magazine included Buffalo’s Dr. Fatima Morrell PhD in their national list of education innovators and she joins hosts Jay Moran and Thomas O’Neil White on this edition of “Buffalo, What’s Next?” She is the associate superintendent of culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives for Buffalo Public Schools, and has worked on making sure that the city’s classrooms, teachers and parents all resonate properly for students of color. In the wake of the George Floyd killing and the summer of Black Lives Matters rallies, she developed and implemented an “Emancipation Curriculum” to address systemic oppression and she says anti-racism education plays a role in violence prevention, especially after the Tops shootings.