Main Street Town Hall Episode 17—Senator Dave Lent
Release Date: 04/26/2024
Main Street Town Hall Episode 17—Senator Dave Lent
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 17 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Back again to the studio is Senator Dave Lent from District 33. After finishing another legislative session, Senator Lent expresses his view on how the session ended. Among the various bills brought to the floor, he discusses the historical success of funding more educational infrastructure, K-12 institutions, and Idaho LAUNCH. Senator Lent elaborates on the future of nuclear energy in Idaho and the potential for future leaders in the industry.
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 16—Representative Josh Wheeler
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 16 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ With the 2023-2024 legislative session at an end, Josh Wheeler from District 35 joins us back in the studio for a recap of his time in Boise. After a year since his last visit, Representative Wheeler breaks down the significant changes in Idaho policy affecting physicians per capita, unnecessary regulations on small businesses, and new funding for career Career Technical Education (CTE) students.
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 15—Representative Rod Furniss
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 15 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Representative Rod Furniss from District 31 returns for his second podcast appearance to recap his perspective of the now concluded legislative session. Furniss talks of the success balancing Idaho budgets, lowering taxes for Idaho residents, funding rural school infrastructure, and how he'd like to address the rising inflation throughout the state.
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 14—Representative Marco Erickson
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 14 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Fresh from the end of the legislative session, Marco Erickson from District 33 returns to the studio to recap the successes and contentions he faced on the House floor. Host and Executive Director, Brennan Summers, digs into what made Representative Erickson's bills so widely supported by the majority of fellow legislators, as well as some of the opposition he faced in his pursuit to remedy women's healthcare in Idaho.
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 13—Representative Matt Bundy
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 13 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Representative Matt Bundy from District 8A joins us for his first appearance on the podcast. Host and Executive Director, Brennan Summers, learns of Bundy's 20-year career as a combat aviator turned high school civics teacher, as well as his transition to the Idaho Legislature. Bundy provides his own insight to the current legislative session and his efforts to help school facilities.
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 12—Representative Britt Raybould
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 12 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Returning to the podcast is Representative Brit Raybould out of District 34. She joins us straight from the House floor to discuss the current policies up for debate. Raybould sheds light on what her constituents from Madison County want accomplished in Boise, as well as her work trying to solidify budgets for the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee (JFAC).
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 11—Representative Jack Nelsen
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 11 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Our first time guest, Representative Jack Nelsen from District 26, joins us from the Boise Capitol to share his current role in the Idaho Legislature. Executive Director and host, Brennan Summers, learns how Nelsen is actively impacting Idaho law in education, agriculture, and conservation. Nelsen also gives his insight into center-aligned politics in a polarized political bubble.
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 10—Representative Josh Wheeler
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 10 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Representative Josh Wheeler from District 35 comes back for another episode with our host and Executive Director, Brennan Summers. Josh breaks down his own core values and motivations for leading in the Idaho Legislature, as well as his own efforts to pass provisional licenses for internationally trained physicians.
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 9—Representative Kenny Wroten
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 9 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Joining us from the Idaho State Capitol for is Representative Kenny Wroten from District 13B. Wroten comes straight from the Judiciary Rules Committee to talk about the latest topics affecting Idahoans. Among them, human trafficking through Idaho borders, the enactment of fentanyl mandatory minimums, and potential concerns for school choice tax credits.
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Main Street Town Hall Episode 8—Senator Treg Bernt
Main Street Idaho Podcast
🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 8 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️ Senator Treg Bernt from District 21 returns for another round of legislative updates from the Senate floor. Bernt walks us through his daily routine at the capitol building, the current bills he’s supporting within higher education, and his advocacy for updated school facilities throughout Idaho. He continues to break down the continuing success of the Idaho LAUNCH program and a behind the scenes look at legislation to come.
info_outline🎙️ Start listening to season 2, episode 17 of the Main Street Idaho Podcast! 🎙️
Back again to the studio is Senator Dave Lent from District 33. After finishing another legislative session, Senator Lent expresses his view on how the session ended. Among the various bills brought to the floor, he discusses the historical success of funding more educational infrastructure, K-12 institutions, and Idaho LAUNCH. Senator Lent elaborates on the future of nuclear energy in Idaho and the potential for future leaders in the industry.