The Session Live at Free Press Fest: Looking ahead the 2025 Montana Legislature
Release Date: 09/16/2024
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
The Session
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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.
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The Session | 2025 | Week 10 | Wall of Lava
The Session
As lawmakers approach a much-needed break, host Shaylee Ragar breaks down the pre-transmittal marathon of hearings—along with how state politics fits in with national discourse—with Tom Lutey and Eric Dietrich of Montana Free Press.
info_outlineThe 2025 Montana Legislature elected by voters in November will meet in January to consider new laws and develop a two-year state budget. Already, it’s clear what some of the key issues of the session will be — among them housing affordability, tax policy, education funding and the potential renewal of Montana’s expanded Medicaid health coverage program. The Session podcast team took some time at the inaugural Montana Free Press Fest, held in Missoula Sept. 6-8, to sit down and discuss what we can see about next year’s legislative session from here in front of a live audience.