The Session | 2023 | Week 12: GOP controls the budget and lawmakers collaborate on elk management
Release Date: 03/27/2023
The Session | 2025 | Live: 69th Legislature Recap
The Session
In a live event one week after the session adjourned, host Shaylee Ragar with Montana Public Radio digs into everything that lawmakers did—and didn't—get done in this year's legislative session with the MTPR and Montana Free Press reporters who covered all the major issues.
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The Session | 2025 | Week 18 | Sine Die
The Session
The session has officially adjourned. Host Shaylee Ragar with Montana Public Radio digs into what you need to know to make sense of the end of 69th Montana legislative session with Tom Lutey, Eric Dietrich, and Mara Silvers, all of Montana Free Press.
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The Session | 2025 | Week 17 | The End Approaches
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The Session | 2025 | Week 16 | Childcare and Education
The Session
Host Shaylee Ragar with Montana Public Radio talks all things childcare and education with MTPR's Victoria Traxler and Alex Sakariassen of Montana Free Press as the legislative session inches closer and closer to Sine Die.
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The Session | 2025 | Week 15 | Health Gets Political
The Session
Montana Public Radio's Shaylee Ragar breaks down the latest on all things health at the legislature with MTFP's Mara Silvers.
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The Session | 2025 | Week 14 | Budgetary Jenga
The Session
It's time to talk money. Montana Public Radio's Shaylee Ragar breaks down all things budget and taxes with Montana Free Press's Eric Dietrich.
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The Session | 2025 | Week 13 | The Judiciary and Wildfires
The Session
Host Shaylee Ragar and Montana Free Press's Tom Lutey and Zeke Lloyd break down two topics burning away in the legislature: judiciary reform and wildfires.
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The Session | 2025 | Week 12 | The Montana State Hospital, Doulas, and St. Paddy's at the Capitol
The Session
Host Shaylee Ragar sits down with Montana Free Press's Mara Silvers and Nora Mabie to talk over legislation that could impact the Montana State Hospital, Indigenous children in Montana, and the future of doulas in the state.
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The Session | 2025 | Transmittal Interview 2 | Katie Sullivan
The Session
Host Shaylee Ragar talks the first half of the session and what comes next with Democratic House Minority Leader Katie Sullivan.
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The Session | 2025 | Transmittal Interview 1 | Matt Regier
The Session
Shaylee Ragar sits down with Republican Senate President Matt Regier to discuss the first half of the session, policy lawmakers are considering, and what comes next.
info_outlineA 14 billion dollar budget passed out of the Montana House with support from the Republican supermajority. Democrats don’t have the power to change it, but they still tried.
Host Nadya Faulx and reporters Eric Dietrich, Ellis Juhlin, and Arren Kimbel-Sannit discuss the debate over how the state should spend tax dollars.
The spending plan calls for a deal to send state inmates to an out-of-state private prison.
And a package of legislation could change how and where people can hunt elk.
More legislative coverage:
Budget bill clears House debate with GOP support, Democratic critique
What to know about the budget bill moving through the Legislature