Julie Luchetta
Reporter, Report for America Corps memberExpertise: Audio editing, public health, social issues reporting
Education: University of Arizona
Highlights
- Loo-keh-Tah
- I have lots of opinions on podcasts and storytelling in general and I absolutely want to hear yours
- French
Experience
I joined Boise State Public Radio in 2022 as the Canyon County reporter through Report for America, to report on the growing Latino community in Idaho. I am very invested in listening to people’s different perspectives and I am very grateful to those who are willing to share their stories with me. It’s a privilege and I do not take it for granted.
I started this job, my first full-time position in journalism, a couple of weeks before the repeal of Roe v. Wade and have been covering the local implications of Idaho’s changing legal landscape ever since and the impacts it has had on the state.
Email: If you have a tip (or podcast recommendation) please shoot me an email.
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Half red wine, half Coca Cola: 100% Basque. Jaialdi attendees can sample a variety of specialties from the old country during the festival, including one very specific drink: Kalimotxos. -
More than 2,000 veterans of Basque heritage fought in the U.S. armed forces in World War II, many of whom were from Idaho. After a decade of research, some historians are working to build a memorial on American soil recognizing their sacrifice. -
As Boise gets ready to host Jaialdi, the largest Basque Festival outside of the old country, festival goers can look forward to eating lots -lots- of food ... including perhaps the most popular item on any Basque menu: Croquetas! -
Idaho’s new Government Efficiency committee, formed by GOP legislative leadership in April, met for the first time Friday. -
A local nonprofit organization that pays interns to work in Idaho newsrooms is expanding. Voces, whose mission is to increase coverage and representation of Latinos in the media, has received half a million dollars. -
Analysis of data from the 2024 Census shows the population, currently at about 2 million residents, will hit 2.4million by 2034. -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, arrests in Idaho have increased sharply compared to last year. -
A federal judge has permanently banned Idaho from prosecuting physicians who refer patients to legal abortions out-of-state. -
A judge extended a temporary block on a law preventing the state of Idaho from asking patients with HIV to prove their legal status. -
Measles was declared eliminated from the United States 25 years ago. Now, the Centers for Disease Control reports major outbreaks of the virus happening across the country. This comes as vaccination rates in the country, and in Idaho, continue to fall.
