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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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.
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Commissioner Tom Dayley said the county's legislative priorities for the year include getting more control over local health board nominations and budgets, nonprofit hospitals and property tax exemptions, and transitioning public defenders from the county to the state.
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Water is not an unlimited resource, and more attention is being paid to how we use it - especially on thirsty landscaping like non-native grass lawns. What can homeowners do if they're tired of the maintenance and the rising expense of watering their yard?