Mara Silvers
Montana Free Press ReporterMara writes about health and human services stories happening in local communities, the Montana statehouse and the court system. She also produces the Shared State podcast in collaboration with MTPR and YPR. Before joining Montana Free Press, Mara worked in podcast and radio production at Slate and WNYC. She was born and raised in Helena, MT and graduated from Seattle University in 2016.
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The 69th Legislature is kicking off week 15. Today, we're talking about health policy. This is 'The Session', a look at the policy and politics inside the Montana statehouse. -
The 69th Legislature is starting week 5. Lawmakers have begun an ethics investigation into a sitting senator. Legislation concerning transgender health care and bathroom use is moving through the process. This is The Session, a look at the policy and politics inside the Montana statehouse.
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As legislators throw spaghetti at the wall to see what will make it through committee, host Shaylee Ragar and reporters Mara Silvers and Eric Dietrich discuss the specifics of debates over Medicaid expansion and property tax relief.
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The 69th Montana Legislature is officially under way. This week, host Shaylee Ragar and reporters Tom Lutey and Mara Silvers dig in to how the — literal and metaphorical — sausage gets made and what an early GOP divide could mean for the rest of the session.
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A campaign for a constitutional abortion rights amendment in Montana may soon begin collecting signatures to put the measure before voters this fall. But that process has been pushed back by Republican officials challenging the initiative’s content and by legal rulings. -
Republican Senate President Jason Ellsworth says he has ‘not been abusive.’ -
A Helena woman alleged in Lewis and Clark County Justice Court that the Hamilton Republican physically abused her and threatened her with a firearm during their six-year relationship.
