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Today on Buffalo, What’s Next? we speak with Gretchen Gonzalez and Maria Valeri from the Volunteer Lawyers Project. For 40 years, the group of pro bono attorneys has been helping members of our Western New York community by providing free civil law services to low income people and small not-for-profit groups.

A teen is arrested after dragging an officer while trying to escape in a stolen car, and supporters of a bill that would legally give terminally ill patients the option to end their lives, were at the State Capitol yesterday to make a last-minute pitch.

We observe the one-year anniversary of our program’s inception by asking the show’s contributing members to share some of the more noteworthy interviews they’ve been a part of within the past eventful year.

On this episode of Buffalo, What’s Next?, Angelea Preston converses with representatives from Buffalo S.N.U.G. (Should Never Use Guns). Adrienne Garr, a social worker, and La’Tryse Anderson, an outreach worker supervisor, are helping S.N.U.G. fulfill their goal of reducing gun violence in Buffalo.

The Buffalo Catholic Diocese asking for court approval to have 37 of its properties reevaluated, and the official groundbreaking for the new stadium for the Buffalo Bills will begin this morning.

An NYS trooper is facing manslaughter charges in connection with the February 2022 shooting death of a man in downtown Buffalo, dignitaries including Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell celebrated the ceremonial groundbreaking of a new stadium Monday, and advocates are pressing for bills they say will help reduce climate change as the legislative session is set to end later this week.

On today’s program we speak with CoNECT's founder and director Jessica Bauer Walker about the growing need to address the disproportionate rate of out-of-school suspensions in the Buffalo school system. Jessica is joined by her daughter, Serea, and fellow CoNECT staff member, Khadijah Hussein, to talk about the “Solutions not Suspensions” bill and what their group is doing to better tackle our students’ needs.

Since 1977 The Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier has been publishing the Afro-Americans in New York Life and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Charles Brandy, the President of the Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, and Melvin Watkins, one of the group’s founding members, speak with Jay Moran about noteworthy moments from the Journal’s past as well as their continuing pursuit of scholarly research and African-American issues.

As budget talks continue, the new New York State budget will not address the state's affordable housing crisis, and many Upstate New York mayors are calling for investments in healthcare in the budget.

On today’s program we’re focusing on the inspiring work of some of the participants of the Peaceprints of Western New York’s Project Blue in collaboration with Locust Street Art. This particular division of the program helps enrich the lives of men and women in the criminal justice system find purpose through art. Speaking from the Erie County Correctional Facility, Kahlil Peoples, Damon Coleman, and Marquis Shaw join Jay Moran to share their experiences, inspirations, and how the program has affected their lives.