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Jan 13, 2025 | 
azcentral.com | Scott Weidensaul
This autumn, I will be spending a lot of time in the woods at night, listening to what sounds like a garbage truck endlessly backing up, a loud, mechanical toot, toot, toot, toot ... It’s not a truck.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Scott Weidensaul |Katie Kloppenburg
The Valley Fire, which was started by a downed power line, has burned nearly 10,000 acres and destroyed crucial habitat for wildlife. The Intermountain Bird Observatory operates in the area and lost crucial operations for hawk research. A research station run by IBO is located on Highland Valley Road in the area of Lucky Peak.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Scott Weidensaul |George Prentice
Honored as a “major poet-translator,” Peter Cole’s scholarship includes the translations of medieval and modern Hebrew and Arabic. His honors and awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, plus a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. And Boise State’s acclaimed MFA Creative Writing Program will be hosting the world-class poet on Oct. 24 and 25.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Steve Inskeep |Scott Weidensaul
Israeli strikes target bank branches operated by Hezbollah. If Donald Trump wins the election, he vows retribution against enemies. The connection between people’s economic lives and their vote.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Emmanuel Akinwotu |Scott Weidensaul
The Sudanese diaspora in the U.S. is fighting to keep the world's attention focused on the catastrophic fallout from the war back home. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on 10/20/24.)
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Scott Weidensaul
City and fire officials gathered Friday outside the Boise Fire Department's new Station 5,with three bays for fire trucks and a brick building. “To our firefighters, I want to say thank you. It has a great tradition in this fire station. Some of them are here today. Many of our retirees are here today. And I can't thank our firefighters enough for the work they do and that they will continue to do out of this firehouse,” said Boise Fire Chief Mark Niemeyer.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Chandelis Duster |Scott Weidensaul
The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would expand access to contraceptive products, including making over-the-counter birth control and condoms free for the first time for women of reproductive age who have private health insurance.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Adam Bearne |Scott Weidensaul
It's been 60 years since Japan's bullet train first entered service. Could the technology be coming to Texas?
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Michel Martin |Scott Weidensaul
NPR's Michel Martin talks to Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about what President Biden can do to deescalate conflicts in the Middle East.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Charles Maynes |Scott Weidensaul
It's crunch time for Moldova, the tiny country balancing between EU member countries and Russia, as presidential election and referendum results come in.
