Debrief Podcast

On this edition of The Debrief Podcast your hosts Ted Baker and Josh Durso from the FL1 News team break down the biggest stories of the week. - Wegmans store in Auburn rolls out new ... more

This week on The Debrief Podcast a look at the biggest stories. Recapping and reviewing Election Night across the Finger Lakes region, the future of properties identified in the Five to Revive, and other major ... more

This week on The Debrief Podcast a look at the biggest stories. The healthcare worker shortage, protests over the COVID vaccine, new questions in local public schools as another district faces controversy, and election debate ... more

What's happening in the Victor Central School District? Should ransomware attacks be expected moving forward? What about the recent controversy in Watkins Glen surrounding Mayor Luke Leszyk? Josh Durso and Ted Baker are talking about ... more

What's happening at the Montezuma Audubon Center in Savannah, Wayne County? Each month, Center Director Chris Lajewski joins us in-studio to talk about some of the species being observed at the wetlands complex, as well ... more

What are counties in the Finger Lakes and Central New York most looking for over the next several weeks and months, as New York State and Congress mulls over additional pandemic relief? This week a ... more

On this edition of The Weekend Debrief Josh Durso and Ted Baker take a look back at the biggest stories of the year, reflecting on them, and also looking forward to the biggest unanswered questions ... more

Today on the show a look at how one county in the Finger Lakes took a unified approach to dealing with the Coronavirus Pandemic. Obviously, the public health crisis effected everything from small businesses, to ... more

It's all about the salt. Last week Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill that calls for a “salt reduction task force” to analyze the state’s aggressive practices of salting roads. The study comes ... more

This week we’re catching up with Steve Keeler, Division Chair of the School of Media & Arts at Cayuga Community College about the state- and future of journalism. There were a number of topics we ... more

Seasonal depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder or the "winter blues," is a subtype of depression or bipolar disorder that occurs and ends around the same time every year. The days are short, the ... more

Are we about to see everything change again in New York? Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to announce new restrictions on businesses like restaurants and bars. Could the region be turned into one large orange ... more

Cities have been Bill Fulton's life. The Auburn native now serves as the Director of the Kinder Institute at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He's also served as the Mayor of Ventura, California; and Director ... more

Over the weekend the Wayne County Health Department announced a free drive-thru COVID-19 testing clinic to be held at the Lyons Bus Garage on Clyde Road. It took around 24 hours for it to fill ... more

There has been a lot of bad news about the Coronavirus Pandemic in recent weeks. It's the holiday season, and ordinarily, this is when businesses - big and small - are ramping things up. On ... more

Earlier this year we talked with Steve Keeler from Cayuga Community College. It was mid-April and the economy had only been shut down for a few weeks. However, it was clear that the media landscape ... more

One day after we talked with Auburn Enlarged City School District Superintendent Jeff Pirozzolo about the return to class after the Thanksgiving break, he informed families that the junior high would be fully-remote through Tuesday, ... more

It has only been a few days, but plenty has happened in the Finger Lakes. Josh Durso and Ted Baker discuss the biggest headlines of the last week in a special evening edition of The ... more

This week Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that parts of Rochester and Syracuse would enter Orange Zone designation. It’s part of New York State’s Coronavirus micro-cluster mitigation strategy. It means focusing economic restrictions -- like pausing ... more