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In this episode, Dave Debo talks with President & CEO Stephen Tucker about the Northland Workforce Training Center and its plans to reduce significant barriers to post-secondary education and career readiness for needy students. Brigid Jaipaul-Valenza talks with Maria Ta from Ujima Theatre about how theatre and the arts address racial and social injustice issues.

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, and other relevant art forms including ballet and opera are covered.

An in depth look at car and bicycle collisions on the rise around Western New York. Also the debate over whether calling Buffalo’s largely Black neighborhood as “East Buffalo” instead of the “East side” could make any real difference or not.

In this episode of “Buffalo, What’s Next?,” we spend the hour with the director of the Center for Urban Studies at SUNY, University at Buffalo, Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. He’ll share findings from two studies conducted 30 years apart, focused on Buffalo and the African American community.

In this episode of “Buffalo, What’s Next?,” Jennifer Connor, Executive Director at Justice for Migrant Families, talks about how the white supremacist attack on Buffalo’s Black community has a rippling effect on immigrant communities in Buffalo. Open Buffalo’s Deputy Director, Max Anderson, reflects on the kindness of a community in need and what challenges lie ahead.

New criteria for East side Buffalo residents who could see benefit from the relief fund for Tops shooting victims and community members. Pressure to bring an ADA coordinator position to NYS. And efforts to try and once again establish an ethics board of some sort for New York State. Also, Ukrainian refugees on the way to WNY, and Buffalo’s city council re-districting plan has one final public hearing to go through, from the Mayor’s office before he approves— or rejects- it.

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, and other relevant art forms including ballet and opera are covered.

Hear NYS Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett talking about monkeypox and the new statewide emergency. Also Jay Moran takes you behind the scenes for rehearsals at Inclusive Theater of Buffalo's one act play festival. MusicalFare cancels the remaining performances of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder", and Elderwood pays a fine after federal prosecutors accused them of billing irregularities.

The latest on the 9-88 crisis hotline, a new method of getting urgent mmental health and suicide counseling, similar to 9-11. Also good polling numbers for statewide Democratic party incumbents, and the push for flight safety years after the crash of Flight 3407 in Clarence.

In this episode of "Buffalo, What's Next?" Jay Moran explores historical context of a community divided by the Kensington Expressway with local elder, Cliff Bell. Dave Debo examines health inequity and lingering community concerns after the recent racially motivated shooting on the East Side with Rev. Diann Holt.