Episode 15

Long-term funding issues and their immediate pains

April 9, 2021 (pre-recorded 4/5): Last week Speaker Jill Krowinski announced that the House would drop its proposal to overhaul the state's underfunded pension system. The unpopular proposal would have raised the retirement age for teachers and state employees and lowered the retirement benefits. 

Unpopular or not, the pension system remains underfunded. A problem that still needs fixing. So. What now? Rep. Sarah Copeland Hanzas joins the show. 

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.