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Idaho Matters gets your COVID-19 questions answered from two medical experts about face masks and 2nd booster shots.

Over the last few years there's been a growing political tide threatening to take away gender affirming healthcare for minors...including the advancement of House Bill 675 here in Idaho. Joining Idaho Matters are two licensed professional therapists, Jamie Lange-LPC and Dianne Piggott, along with Shannon Mclean, mother of a trans child and Shauna Jones, also the mother of a trans child and Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln, the Idaho Programs Manager, Legal voices and Dr Jeffrey Pennings, a family medicine physician.

Sagebrush is on the decline in the west including Idaho, thanks in part to wildfires and loss of habitat.Leonora Bittleston is an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at Boise State University and she's studying the bacteria and other microscopic "bugs" that live on the leaves of the sagebrush plants in the Boise foothills. She's here to talk with Gemma about the study.

As the Chief Executive Officer of Primary Health Medical Group, Dr. David Peterman is on a mission to change the way we react to the next pandemic. He talks with Gemma Gaudette about his thoughts on what went wrong with the process.

There's a new exhibit of Idaho artist James Castle called "Ways of Knowing" at the James Castle House Museum. Joining Gemma today are Andrea Merrell, the collection manager for the James Castle Collection and Archive and Kristin Hill, cultural sites program coordinator with Boise's Arts & History Department.

It’s Friday, which means it's time for our Reporter Roundtable when Idaho Matters gets you up-to-date on all the news that made headlines this past week.

Idaho's new abortion law is facing a lawsuit. Wednesday, Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, filed a petition in Idaho Supreme Court to block the law which is set to go into effect April 22nd. The Idaho Legislation bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before most women are aware they're pregnant. It also allows family members of what the law calls a "preborn child" to sue the abortion provider. University of Idaho law professor Shaakirah Sanders is here to talk about the law as well as the lawsuit.

The new regional head of the U.S. Small Business Administration has been traveling around the Pacific Northwest listening to small business owners to find out what they're struggling with during the pandemic recovery. Mike Fong is in Boise today to hear from women business owners and others.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers' new novel, "Bewilderment", looks at climate change and animal extinction through the eyes of a widowed father and his nine-year-old son. Powers is coming to the Egyptian Theater in Boise on April 18th as part of The Cabin's Readings and Conversations Series and he joins Gemma now.

As "Porcupine Caribou" flowed around her tent, Dr. Sara Dant suddenly knew how to write about climate change in the West.