Troy Oppie
Host/ReporterExpertise: radio hosting, reporting, All Things Considered, jazz music
Education: Pacific Lutheran University
Highlights
- I started at BSPR as a volunteer
- I embrace goofy ideas, like broadcasting live from a hammock by the Boise River
- Public Radio and I go back to middle school – but not as a 'back seat listener'
Experience
I was excited for the chance to volunteer as a local music host back in 2014 after I left local TV (and thus was allowed to appear on-air somewhere else). I hosted "Jazz Conversations" for many years before slowly working into rotation with the news team and joining full-time just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
I enjoy stretching the limits of radio when I can, like trying remote broadcasts from places around Idaho, and introducing listeners to the different characters who make our communities unique. My decade-long career in television included stints in live sports production and I can still occasionally be found behind a camera or in a TV truck, or even calling play-by-play for high school sports.
I also spent nearly six years working in personal finance, which I enjoyed but found highly stressful.
My first exposure to public radio was listening to jazz as a middle schooler on KPLU-FM (now KNKX) in Tacoma-Seattle. Our jazz band even volunteered to answer phones during the station's pledge drives (which used to be 12-14 days long!). Eventually I worked at that station while attending college and it drove my appreciation for public radio – and the people of public radio – to new heights.
Email: Drop me a note or story tip at troyoppie@boisestate.edu
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Ada County Commissioners are considering spending $13.3 million to renovate the kitchen at the Ada County jail, and begin preparations on the land next to the jail for future large-scale expansion.
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Ada County officials and its victim services partners cut the ribbon on a rededication of the Ada County Victim Services Center. The ceremony was, in part, an attempt to turn the page following a very public recent breakup with The Faces of Hope Foundation.
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The City of Boise says 250 parking ticket notices were issued this month by mistake.
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Data show 59 reported laser incidents for Idaho in 2023. All but two of those came near the Boise airport - about half between the months of August and November.
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This spring, the Boise School District says it will try to find a way to pay for meals for all its students.
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If it becomes law, Idaho would only recognize criminal acts as domestic terrorism if a person committing a crime was cooperating with a foreign terrorist organization, and labeling someone a terrorist would require a successful criminal prosecution.
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On the heels of the first general rate increase in more than a decade, Idaho Power is also slicing how much it pays its roughly two percent of customers who generate their own power, primarily through solar.
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Four crops in Idaho helped the entire agriculture industry to a year of near-record revenue, but profits were still down thanks to rising costs and the effects of higher interest rates.
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Demolition of the off-campus residence where four University of Idaho students were murdered last year is underway, against the wishes of at least two of the victim’s families.
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The session is likely to include school voucher legislation or some kind of tuition tax credit, plus another reduction in the state income tax rate.