Welcome to Vermont, COVID-19...

March 30, 2020: Today Governor Phil Scott announced new restrictions on lodging and a directive that all people traveling to Vermont self quarantine for 14 days. Once again, COVID-19 is highlighting the cracks in our systems. Today, Emilie and Olga discuss the state's tourist economy and Vermont's identity as an "apocalypse refuge."

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The Montpelier Happy Hour

A show about how things in the State House shake out for the rest of us

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About your hosts

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...".

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.