James Dawson
ReporterExpertise: Political reporting, audio editing, podcast smithing
Education: University of Idaho
Highlights
- Won my elementary school’s geography bee, failing miserably at state
- Once caught 10 rainbow trout in one hour fly fishing on the Lochsa
- Idaho Press Club board member
Experience
I cover Idaho state government and a little bit of everything else for Boise State Public Radio. Originally from Idaho’s territorial capitol north of the Time Zone Bridge, I’ve covered politics and state legislatures across the country since 2010. You’ll hear my work during Morning Edition, Idaho Matters and All Things Considered (and maybe read my newsletter, Legislative Round-up, during the session).
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Idaho’s legislative budget committee is digging into nearly 20 years of the state’s past budgets to better weed out unessential expenses. -
The state of Idaho violated its citizens’ constitutional rights during the first few weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new legislative task force. -
The latest federal government shutdown will immediately affect Idaho’s 11,000 federal workers, though the residual effects of the stoppage will take time to ripple outward. -
The usefulness of nearly 50 state commissions, councils and divisions is being questioned by Idaho’s government efficiency or DOGE task force. -
Costs keep piling up in the civil judgment against anti-government activist Ammon Bundy related to his defamation case involving Idaho’s largest hospital system. -
As Idaho prepares to upgrade its crumbling 911 system, a state watchdog agency is warning of funding and oversight challenges facing the project. -
Gov. Brad Little is rebranding an existing nuclear energy task force in part to market Idaho as a hub for the industry. -
Gov. Brad Little is ordering state agencies to permanently cut 3% from their budgets for the upcoming fiscal year after ordering them to temporarily slice the same amount from their current year spending plans in August. -
A group of public education advocates is suing to block a new Idaho law that would use $50 million of taxpayer money for residents’ private school tuition. -
A group of Wood River Valley residents is trying to upend a plan to build more than 80 miles of new trails mostly along federal land.
