Amanda Peacher
Reporter & Host, LOCKED podcastAmanda Peacher works for the Mountain West News Bureau out of Boise State Public Radio. She's an Idaho native who returned home after a decade of living and reporting in Oregon. She's an award-winning reporter with a background in community engagement and investigative journalism.
Amanda pedals her bike to work and spends weekends hiking the Boise foothills with her toddler and husband, baking unhealthy sweets, or feebly trying to get her garden to grow.
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Adree Edmo’s legal victory is a huge deal for her, but also for prisons and for transgender inmates like her.If you have questions or feedback, we'd love…
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Adree Edmo’s legal victory is a huge deal for her, but also for prisons and for transgender inmates like her.If you have questions or feedback, we'd love…
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Scientists at Colorado State University have developed a way to make sure blood transfusions don't transmit the COVID-19 virus, according to a new study.…
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The National Bureau of Economic Research announced Monday that the U.S. economy officially entered a recession in February. The bureau's Business Cycle…
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There have been more than 40,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in prisons and jails across 47 states. Only Idaho and Wyoming, as well as Hawaii, have yet to…
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As employers continue to lay off workers at unprecedented levels, every state in the Mountain West has some kind of rent assistance program in place.…
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A little boy in an orange shirt walks up to a grab-and-go meal site at an elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah. A school worker wearing a mask uses a…
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In July, a transgender woman in Idaho will make history. Adree Edmo will become the first trans inmate in the nation to receive gender confirmation…
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The U.S. Supreme Court just denied the state of Idaho’s request to suspend Adree Edmo’s surgery. Here's what that means for the case — and for Adree. Stay…
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The U.S. Supreme Court just denied the state of Idaho’s request to suspend Adree Edmo’s surgery. Here's what that means for the case — and for Adree. Stay…