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"The Last Honest Man" By James Risen

Sep 22, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | James Risen |Bob Kustra |S. Kirk Walsh |Daco Auffenorde

For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it. In his latest book, The Last Honest Man, Pulitzer prize winningauthor James Risen profiles Senator Frank Church of Idaho. An unlikely hero, Church led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and became a scathing critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world.
"The Elephant Of Belfast" By S. Kirk Walsh

Sep 15, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | S. Kirk Walsh |Bob Kustra |Daco Auffenorde |Isaac Stone Fish

On today’s program, author S. Kirk Walsh joins us to talk about her debut novel, The Elephant of Belfast. Inspired by true events, Walsh tells the moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blitz of Belfast during WWII. The novel speaks not only to the tragedy of the times, but also to the ongoing sectarian tensions that still exist in Northern Ireland today. S.
How one garden is keeping traditional plant knowledge alive

Sep 12, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Daco Auffenorde

A recent ceremony in our region dedicated a garden that provides spiritual, medicinal and nutritional sustenance. It's called the Northern Cheyenne Medicinal Garden and it has over 100 different plants. Wyoming Public Radio's Hugh Cook visited the Sheridan Food Forest for this report for the Mountain West News Bureau.
How Indigenous youth are restoring ancestral land

Sep 12, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Daco Auffenorde

The land and its waterways have long been sacred to Indigenous people and they know how to care for it well, considering the land used to be theirs. Now, some groups are recruiting indigenous youth to restore and protect these areas. Emma VandenEinde of the Mountain West News Bureau visits a pueblo in New Mexico to see how one crew is doing that.
What to Watch: A conversation with Tony Doerr

Sep 12, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Gemma Gaudette |Daco Auffenorde

The Netflix adaptation of Idahoan Tony Doerr's book "All the Light We Cannot See" had its world premiere over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival and our resident movie critic George Prentice was there to see it. He also got a chance to sit down and talk with the Pulitzer prize winning author about the miniseries. George joined Idaho Matters to tell us more about the experience.
Idaho task force nears proposal to bolster state EMS

Sep 11, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Daco Auffenorde |Rachel Cohen

Idaho does not consider ambulance or paramedic services as an essential government function, but one group is aiming to change that through legislation. A 2021 Office of Performance Evaluations oversight report found Idaho's Emergency Medical Service agencies rely heavily on volunteers, are understaffed, and that this can affect how fast ambulances respond to calls.
A rare, exclusive glimpse inside the authoritarian nation of Nicaragua

Sep 11, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Eyder Peralta |Daco Auffenorde

Over the past decade, Nicaragua has become one of the most authoritarian countries in the Western Hemisphere. And for more than a year now, the country has also kept foreign journalists out. Copyright 2023 NPR
Google's antitrust showdown begins this week

Sep 11, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Karen Zamora |Daco Auffenorde

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rebecca Haw Allensworth, a professor of antitrust law at Vanderbilt Law School, about the federal government's first major monopoly trial of the Big Tech era. Copyright 2023 NPR
UN members face immense challenges meeting goals on hunger and gender equality

Sep 11, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Jonaki Mehta |Daco Auffenorde

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Mandeep Tiwana, who is attending the UN general assembly as the representative for the civic engagement organization CIVICUS, about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Copyright 2023 NPR
Looking back at Minidoka: One woman's family story

Sep 11, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Samantha Wright |Daco Auffenorde

From 1942 to 1945, the family of Barbara Yoshida Berthiaume was incarcerated in the Minidoka Japanese internment camp in Eastern Idaho. Barbara, who grew up in Kuna, didn’t learn about this dark chapter in her family’s history until she was in her senior year at Kuna High. Since then she’s been researching Japanese internment camps and sharing what she’s learned through talks around the country.