Bob Lonsberry

Rochester

Talk Show Host and Columnist at WHAM-AM (Rochester, NY)

Talk Show Host and Columnist at WSYR-AM (Syracuse, NY)

Talk Show Host and Columnist at iHeartMedia

Father of 9, Army veteran, marathon runner, NRA, believer in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Radio talk-show host at WHAM, WSYR, WGY and WAIO.

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Articles

Lonsberry: SISTER GRACE MILLER IS ON HOSPICE CARE

4 days ago | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Sister Grace is dying. She was in the hospital and she was at the Mother House and now she is back on the street, on Carter Street, in a hospice bed in a living room where visitors crowd amidst the medical supplies and the sound of traffic passing by outside.
Lonsberry: TRUMP IS WRONG TO CANCEL VETERANS DAY

1 month ago | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Trump is wrong about Veterans Day. Completely, offensively, disappointingly wrong. In the dark of the night, governing via social media, he decided to do away with the day Congress and the American people have set aside to honor and thank those who have honorably worn the uniform of the United States. No more Veterans Day. This from a guy who holds power because veterans came out in droves for him on Election Day.
Lonsberry: DUMB AND DUMBER, STARRING MALIK AND DAVE

2 months ago | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

The city of Rochester is FUBARed. Today, stuttering behind a lectern, the mayor condemned a handful of city cops for backing up law enforcement officers who called for help. It was Malik at his worst, it was progressivism at its most disgusting. In a city where the murder of a legal immigrant hasn’t elicited a response from City Hall or the Sixth Floor, the mayor and the chief have taken some 10 cops off the street because of the handcuffing of two illegal immigrants.
Lonsberry: THE GOVERNOR IS GOING TO GET SOMEONE KILLED

Feb 28, 2025 | wgy.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

The governor is going to get someone killed. Maybe an inmate, maybe a young National Guardsman, maybe a parole officer or prison guard. Unless she cleans up her mess soon, someone is going to die. And we’ll be lucky if it’s just one. Because she is about a dozen pissed off inmates away from this being September 1971 all over again.
Lonsberry: MY COLUMN ON THE PRISON STRIKE

Feb 20, 2025 | wgy.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Upstate New York is poor and powerless. Those of us who live here have little money and no voice. Some days we don’t even have hope. But this week we’ve been reminded that sometimes David can beat Goliath, that sometimes the little man can stand up and make the mighty tremble. We learned that from some guys by a burn barrel. Dozens of burn barrels, actually, across the road from some 30 New York prisons.
Lonsberry: PENFIELD SCHOOL BOARD IS WRONG ABOUT DECENCY AND DEMOCRACY

Feb 12, 2025 | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Last night, in a self-righteous fit, the Penfield school board stormed out. The room was packed, parents were pissed, and the board was having none of it. And so, after snottily informing the audience that this was the board’s meeting and that the public’s presence was disruptive, the president called for a motion to adjourn and after a few mumbled words of parliamentary procedure the board en masse stood up and walked out.
Lonsberry: THE STORY OF MY THURSDAY RUN

Feb 10, 2025 | wham1180.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

I had intended to run down South Avenue, maybe to Elmwood, and come back through Mount Hope, cross the Ford Street Bridge and head back on Exchange and then Broad. But on the corner of MLK, across from the ESL building, I heard the screaming of the sirens. It was chiefs’ trucks, SUVs, from the fire department. You can tell by the sound.
Lonsberry: JUDGE HAS A RIGHT NOT TO MARRY GAY COUPLE

Dec 4, 2024 | wsyr.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

On a Saturday in November, two women went to Syracuse City Court to get married. It was after arraignments, in a lull in the courtroom, and a man and woman were ahead of them. Judge Felicia Pitts Davis performed the marriage of the man and woman, in a simple and sweet ceremony, and then excused herself. The women happily waited their turn.
Lonsberry: AMERICA WON THE ELECTION

Nov 5, 2024 | wsyr.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Thank God. Thank God the voice of the people was heard. Thank God the election was fair. Thank God our Republic survives. And thank God for Donald Trump. At the crossroads of history, America chose to be American, and in so doing the country and the world dodged a bullet.
Lonsberry: KEEP JOHN MANNION OUT OF CONGRESS

Oct 21, 2024 | wsyr.iheart.com | Bob Lonsberry

Why would you elect John Mannion to Congress when you wouldn’t re-elect him to the state Senate? That’s the question Central New York faces as it goes to the polls and decides whether Syracuse and Utica should be served in the House of Representatives by Democrat challenger John Mannion or Republican incumbent Brandon Williams. Why give a new job to a guy who failed you in his old job?