Buffalo Politics:Uncensored

We were fortunate enough to have a bunch of great people share their new year’s resolutions with us, live, at our Politics in the Buff event.

Jack Kavanaugh hosts this episode with Brian Nowak, talking in depth about the latest and greatest from Cheektowaga. Brian also discusses his work with Buffalo for Bernie.

Our discussion with Assembly Member Patrick Burke, representative of the 142nd District.

In this episode, Jack Kavanaugh and Vanessa Glushefski sat down with the latest candidate to enter the NY 27 race, Melodie Baker.

An awesome episode that was dug up from this past summer, wherein Vanessa talks with Drew Ludwig about details on the this summer’s "Close the Camps Rally," oppression, and a little theology.

A recap of the 2019 election results.

Jack, Vanessa, and Cindi McEachon, sit down to talk about the county executive debates.

Vanessa Glushefski and Jack Kavanaugh sit down with the folks from B-Lo Zero, another great podcast here in Buffalo. We talk about a wide variety of things, including the new Record Theatre project and all that crazy stuff that went down around the Democratic primaries (or lack thereof).

On October 5th approximately 100 people showed up to a specially scheduled finance committee meeting to protest the new City of Buffalo tax assessment. In this episode, Jack Kavanaugh and Vanessa Glushefski sit down with Sarah Wooton from PPG and Christiana Limniatis from Preservation Buffalo to discuss what the tax assessment means for those of us who call Buffalo home.

A belated discussion on this year’s school board election followed by the latest from the city comptroller’s office.

This episode features audio from a Common Council finance committee meeting discussing the city’s proposed new in rem policy that has the potential to be harmful to city residents.

What starts off as a run down of the primary results turns into an intriguing conversation on the role of leaders in government and just about everything else we could think of.

A conversation with Tina Sanders talking about everything from domestic violence to affordable housing. Tina is a candidate for the Fillmore councilmatic district.

Part 2 of the Democratic primary run down with Brian Nowak and Jack Kavanaugh.

Brian Nowak, Jack Kavanaugh, and I give a quick run down of the primary races coming up Tuesday, June 25th. This is part 1 of 2.

Mitch Nowakowski has worked hard in his community and in the Democratic Party, which gave him the edge he needed to secure the Party’s endorsement. As one of four candidates in a contentious primary, Mitch hopes to represent a district that likely touches the widest array of neighborhoods in the City of Buffalo.

In which we discuss the University District Council race, undervalued East Side neighborhoods, and concerns about a new City policy that could have a major impact on Black and Brown communities.

A discussion on the hotly contested Green Light NY bill that passed the Assembly on 6/12/19. With many WNY lawmakers voting against the bill and conservatives vowing not to enforce the law if passed, this bill is worthy of our time and attention.

Melanie McMahan, first-time candidate, was out getting signatures while her opponent was training for a marathon. Unfortunately, all of her signatures were ruled invalid and she had to go out to collect even more signatures to try and stay in the race.

Upon her appointment, many, including myself, questioned whether Interim Comptroller Barbara Miller-Williams would be sufficiently independent in her role as Buffalo’s Comptroller. A recent controversy involving two very different reports seems to confirm our suspicions.