On this week's program, a legislative recap from Boise, an investigation into collaboration between the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office and immigration officials, and a conversation with an actor and comedian whose tour is bringing him to Spokane on April 25.
The legislature in Boise has been busy this year, passing a $450 million tax cut, as well as taking on issues from "medical freedom" to transgender bathroom and dorm restrictions to school choice funding.
Boise State Public Radio's Idaho state government reporter, James Dawson, joined to talk about the policy shifts and what they’ll mean for Idahoans moving forward.
We were also joined by InvestigateWest's migrant labor reporter, Rachel Spacek.
She uncovered email exchanges between the Kootenai County sheriff’s office and federal immigration agents to reveal not just cooperation from the local law officers but collaboration with the federal agents to detain undocumented migrants — regardless of whether the people have committed a state crime.
Spacek joined the program to break down her reporting on a county where the sheriff has been especially eager to assist federal immigration agents just across a border from a state where such collaboration is against the law.
You might remember Jeremy Piven from his role as the over-the-top, witty and sometimes crass talent agent Ari Gold in the series "Entourage."
In his new movie, “The Performance,” he’s playing a very different character: A talented but underemployed Jewish American tap dancer in the 1930s whose attempt to revitalize his career ends up giving him the opportunity to perform for Hitler.
But outside of film and TV, Piven has a plethora of other experience on stage, including as a stand-up comedian. He’s on tour now, and he’ll be doing a set at Spokane’s Bing Crosby Theater on Sunday, April 27th at 7:30 p.m.
