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Bills affecting transgender Montanans draw emotional debate. Scientific theories are targeted for elimination from public education. And Senator Daines battles Twitter and "San Francisco elites."

Republican legislators in Montana appear as divided as their counterparts in Congress. Rep. Matt Rosendale gets the spotlight in the fight for a new House speaker. Montana lawmakers must decide how to spend $2 billion. A draft resolution blows a loud dog whistle over Native American rights. Learn more now on Capitol Talk.

Democrats cheer Senator Tester's re-election bid. Republicans excommunicate former governor Marc Racicot. Moderates celebrate a couple of tough legislative victories. And everyone is scrambling to meet the deadline to transfer bills from one chamber to the next. Learn more now on Capitol Talk.

There's rare bipartisan agreement over what to do about wayward balloons. Abortion remains a dominant legislative issue. Montana's former secretary of state wants to now be a country singer. And lawmakers argue over whether Columbus was a good guy or bad guy.

A lawmaker's resignation highlights the downside of Montana’s part-time legislature. The governor’s tax relief proposals face some bipartisan opposition. And another effort to make abortion illegal is likely headed to the courts.

Rep. Rosendale refuses a call from Trump. State Sen. Regier withdraws a resolution Native Americans found insulting. Rep. Zinke warns of threats to cowboys. And more Montanans may lose Medicaid funding

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ University of Montana alumna and poet Caylin Capra-Thomas chats with host Lauren Korn about her debut collection, ‘Iguana Iguana.’

Host Lauren Korn speaks with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, the co-editors of ‘Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,’ an anthology of essays that explores desire, its ever-changing shape—and from multiple lenses of womanhood.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Fatimah Asghar, author of ‘When We Were Sisters,’ a novel that traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Charles Finn about his collaborative collection, ‘On a Benediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West,’ a collection of free verse and prose poems, paired with a black-and-white landscape photographs from the Pacific Northwest and the American Southwest taken by photographer Barbara Michelman.