Episode 18

Tracking COVID-19 and moments for optimism

May 8, 2020: Commissioner for the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation, Michael Pieciak, is busy crunching COVID-19 data. His department's data models are part of the state's reopening process. On this episode Mike, Emilie, and Olga discuss tracking key metrics, the virtue of face masks, and redesigning systems.

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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.