Episode 4

Big budget needs. Itty-bitty investments

January 24, 2020: This week, Vermont's Governor Phil Scott gave his budget address. Scott highlighted many of Vermont's big challenges. Yet, Rep. Emilie Kornheiser and Host Olga Peters are asking, where's the money?!?

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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.