Episode 12

Federal funding and acknowledging the long haul

March 27, 2020: A lot has happened in Vermont this week: A Representative called for a quorum. House Speaker Mitzi Johnson assigned contributor Rep. Emilie Kornheiser to a new committee. Governor Scott closed schools for the semester. AND.... The federal government passed an extensive support package for workers and businesses.

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About the Podcast

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The Montpelier Happy Hour
A show about how things in the State House shake out for the rest of us

About your hosts

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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.