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Earlier this week, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law what’s been dubbed the Clean Slate Act. The bipartisan legislation allows people with “minor non-violent, non-sexual offenses” to ask to shield their criminal record from public view if they meet certain conditions.

The energy landscape in our region is changing with coal plants scheduled to close and fossil fuel production facing new challenges. Wyoming Public Radio’s Caitlin Tan reports for the Mountain West News Bureau.

If you haven’t voted in a few years, your registration may have been dropped from the voter rolls. Every other year, Idaho’s 44 county clerks and the Secretary of State are required to do a review of the voter registration system and drop the voters who may have moved, who haven’t been voting and who have become ineligible to vote.

Idaho Matters takes a look at the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and what it could mean for Idahoans, Idaho banks and credit unions.

Idaho Matters takes a look at a food memoire that is part challenge, part hope.

How do you bring Amelia Earhart and a haunted radio to kids in all parts of Idaho? Plus teach them about trust and taking chances, with a little bit of history thrown in? Theater for Youth is doing exactly that, with a traveling production for 100,000 K-5 students, including refugees from Africa, Mexico, and Columbia - many of whom are watching their very first theater production.

The company that provides the water for much of the Treasure Valley is asking for a 24% rate hike to help pay for improvements to the large system that provides drinking water to over 105,000 homes and businesses. Idaho Matters takes a look at what those increased rates would help pay for, as well as where our water comes from and how it gets to our homes.

The Treefort Music Festival starts next week in downtown Boise and alongside all the bands and music, festival-goers will hear from authors, journalists and podcasters at Storyfort. Joining us now is Christian Winn, the organizer of Storyfort and one of this year's storytellers, Carissa Wolf, a lecturer in the Boise State Sociology Department who also co-directs the Idaho Media Initiative.

Idaho's Governor files lawsuit against tent encampment near Idaho Statehouse.

Idaho Matters Doctors Roundtable: March 16, 2022