Episode 3

A return to paid family medical leave and MLK

January 20, 2023 (prerecorded 1/16): H.66, a bill to enact a paid family medical leave insurance program, was submitted this week. Two of the bill's sponsors - The MHH's own Rep. Emilie Kornheiser and Rep. Robin Scheu - join us this week to outline the program's benefits. In the second half of the show, Emilie and Olga share their thoughts on MLK Day. 

To read H.66: https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2024/H.66

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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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.