Episode 22

DIY internet

6/28/19: "No one is coming to save us," said Rep. Laura Sibilia (I-Dover). For several years, Sibilia has focused on reversing the dreary state of broadband in the Green Mountains.

In this legislative review, she outlines the new telecommunications bill. This bill raises funds to support service expansion and is designed to empower communities to create local internet solutions.

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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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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.