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Idaho Matters is a wonderful way to stay up to date, meet people and understand there’s much more to this great state. Hosted by Gemma Gaudette on Boise State Public Radio News, it features arts and politics, growth and education, and the interesting stories that make Idaho unique. Send us your questions, comments or story ideas by emailing idahomatters@boisestate.edu or sending us a voicemail using the “Talk To Us” feature on the free Boise State Public Radio app.

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**Ballet Idaho celebrates 50 years of dance** Oct 24, 2022
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( Ballet Idaho)
This year marks a very special anniversary for Ballet Idaho. Since 1972, the company has been celebrating stories of the human spirit through dance.
50 years later they are commemorating this accomplishment with the performance of four different programs. Laura Curry, Executive Director of the company and the Artistic Director, Garret Anderson joined Idaho Matters to talk more about the history of Ballet Idaho and what they have in store for us this season.

**Idaho Matters Reporter Roundtable: October 21, 2022** Oct 21, 2022
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A look at the Kroger-Albertsons merger and what it means for Idaho, Boise City Council reads complaints against former police chief Ryan Lee, a Rexburg man who was killed while fighting in Ukraine and the Idaho Legislature will consider a bill prohibiting public drag performances.
It’s Friday - which means it's time for our Reporter Roundtable when Idaho Matters gets you up-to-date on all the news that made headlines this past week.
Our journalist panel today:
Don Day, the Founder and Editor of BoiseDev.com
Kelcie Moseley-Morris with the Idaho Capital Sun
Andrea Olson with EastIdahoNews.com
Alex Duggan Investigative Reporter with KTVB in Boise

Boise, City Hall, City Of Trees — **A startling revelation from a member of the Boise City Council** Oct 20, 2022
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(Lacey Daley / Boise State Public Radio)
Councilwoman Lisa Sánchez turned more than a few heads during last week’s workshop session of the Boise City Council.
Lawmakers were being briefed on affordable housing – or the lack thereof. Sánchez was disappointed – not in the analysis per se, but she said it was the latest in a long line of not being at the table in conversations regarding housing.
Our Morning Edition host George Prentice broke this story and has an update.

**Treasure Valley faces dental staffing shortage** Oct 20, 2022
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(Gardner/Fox Associates, Inc / Flickr)
Throughout the nation, dental practices are experiencing a shortage in staffing. And here in the Treasure Valley we’re seeing the same issue.
Without hygienists, dental assistants and front office personnel it can be hard to meet the high demand for care that many dental offices are experiencing on the back end of the pandemic. But here several school districts in Idaho are working to address this shortage with training programs that allow high school students to gain experience as dental assistants, setting them up for success in the workforce.
Dr. Kim Keller, Idaho State Dental Association President and co-owner of Nampa Smiles, Crisha Bollinger, Director of the Nampa School Districts Dental Assisting Program at Skyview High school and Saige Rigby, a Nampa School District dental assisting student joins Idaho Matters to talk more about this shortage and programs helping to fill it.

Musician Ned Evett stands in a living room playing a guitar. — **A chat with fretless guitar master Ned Evett** Oct 20, 2022
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Ned Evett(Rene Hartfield)
Ned Evett is a pioneer in making music on guitars that don’t have “frets” - those little ridges that most guitarists use on the neck of the instrument.
For more than 30 years he’s been creating both guitars and music that are out of the ordinary, leading to Guitar Player Magazine calling him the "the world's first fretless guitar rockstar" and USA Today says he’s the "the king of the glass-necked guitar."
He’s a Nashville boy with very strong Boise roots and he’s coming to the Treasure Valley on Wednesday for a special concert at the Sapphire Room at the Riverside Hotel.
We asked Ned about playing a guitar with frets and how he made the very dramatic switch away from using frets at a New Years Eve concert in McCall in 1990 after he smashed his normal guitar on stage. He went fretless and never looked back.
Without frets, he kept wearing out the necks of normal guitars, so he started building his own glass-necked guitars. He says they’re beautiful and produce a unique sound like no other.
When he isn’t making music or hanging out with Joe Satriani, Peter Frampton, Steve Morse and Andy James teaching folks how to play the fretless guitar at the G-4 Guitar Experience in Las Vegas, he spends time animating and writing comic books.
He joins Idaho Matters to talk about his life and music.

**Idaho Matters Doctors Roundtable: October 19, 2022** Oct 19, 2022
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(Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, almost half a million people in Idaho have been officially diagnosed with coronavirus and nearly 5,200 people in the Gem State have died.
Over the last week, we have seen 354 new cases of COVID -19 in Idaho and a week ago 37 people showed up in the emergency room with COVID-19 symptoms. So the coronavirus is still with us, but what is the situation in Idaho and in the U.S.? And with people still getting sick, why is the vaccine booster rate so low?
Dr. David Pate, former CEO of St. Luke's Health System and a current member of the Idaho Coronavirus Task Force, joins Idaho Matters to help us answer these questions.

Yellowstone still recovering after a summer of record flooding Oct 19, 2022

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This summer, Yellowstone National Park was hit by a historic flood that made international headlines. Now, construction crews are in a race to rebuild roadways before winter sets in.

The Mountain West News Bureau’s Will Walkey reports on how locals and tourists are coping with the park’s damage, but rebuilding infrastructure.

**New centers will help Idaho kids in crisis** Oct 18, 2022
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The proposed Youth Behavioral Health Community Crisis Centers are designed in part to keep kids out of places like the Juvenile Corrections Center Nampa.( Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections website.)
When a teenager in Idaho is experiencing a crisis, maybe with drugs or thoughts of suicide, there is too often no place for them to go.
Without a safe place to go for a few hours to get calm and get help, these kids end up either in a hospital or in jail. This can make their trauma worse and further complicate the problems they’re trying to work through.
To try to help those kids Idaho Health and Welfare and the state’s Department of Juvenile Corrections are working to create Youth Crisis Centers around the state where a kid in trouble can spend 24 hours in a safe space to de-escalate the crisis and get help they need.
Monty Prow, the Director of the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections and Ross Edmunds, Behavioral Health Administrator for Health and Welfare joined Idaho Matters to talk more about these youth crisis centers.

Kids getting kids out to vote Oct 18, 2022

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With the midterm elections less than a month away, there’s an energized push to get the vote out, and an equally energized effort to register new voters – and in particular, young voters.

The Idaho nonprofit Babe Vote is run by high school students and their goal is to register, educate and engage voters.

Our Morning Edition host George Prentice sat down with high school student Amaia Clayton and activist Sam Sandmire to talk more about Babe Vote and upcoming deadline for Idahoans to pre-register online.

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