WBFO Brief

WBFO Brief

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WBFO Brief episodes

  • WBFO Brief Wednesday May 25, 2022
    The We Are Women Warriors group has taken on an anti-violence measure in schools. Also, funeral services, the cancellation of Regents exams because of the Tops shootings, and the Adult Victims Act extends the statute of limitation on abuse cases.
    11 min
  • WBFO Brief Monday May 23, 2022
    Relief for the community and honors and remembrances for the victims of the racist mass shootings on Jefferson Avenue. And talk of gun control in Albany, in its wake
    12 min
  • WBFO Brief Friday May 20 , 2022
    If it's Friday, It's Theater Talk. Also Pharoah at Buffalo Porchfest. But first, more community voices after accused Tops shooter Payton Gendron was indicted. Also, Rev. Al Sharpton , the latest from Albany with Karen DeWitt,
    24 min
  • WBFO Brief Wednesday May 18, 2021
    As part of our extensive coverage of President Biden’s visit to the Buffalo shooting scene, hear a victim’s son say “We’re hurt. ..and after all the bells and whistles are gone, we are going to have to deal with this.”
    23 min
  • WBFO Brief Tuesday May 17, 2022
    George Floyd's attorney Ben Crump takes up the case of a Buffalo shooting victim, The We Are Women Warriors group remembers shooting victim Kat Massey, Buffalo Schools remembers their dead employees, and a look at the Replacement Theory that has was apparently espoused by the gunman.
    23 min
  • WBFO Brief Friday May, 13 2022
    Today on Theater Talk, hear Anthony and Peter answer the age old question “Who gets the pain when they do the mambo, who gets the pain when they go urp!” ( Classic lyrics from Damn Yankees, FWIW). Also the NHL’s baby steps toward having a female head coach, backsliding on reforms after the crash of Flt. 3407, and Albany’s discussion of adult abuse survivors.
    22 min
  • WBFO Brief Thursday May 12, 2022
    More today on the battle over crosswalks and street calming- after a blind man in Buffalo was struck by a car in the Elmwood Village. Also hear Dr. Nancy Nielsen MD explain why some people , in some families, don’t catch COVID when others do.
    17 min

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The WBFO Brief podcast brings you the award-winning reporting from the newsroom of WBFO, Buffalo Toronto Public Media's NPR station, each weekday morning. To get up to the minute news, tune into WBFO…