Navigating a remote legislature, the 2021 edition

January 15, 2021: The Vermont legislature is stepping into its second round of remote lawmaking. Benefits and challenges abound for all.

Windham County Senator Jeanette White joins the first half of the show to share her insights. After the break, Journalist John Walters discusses what issues he is watching.

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The Montpelier Happy Hour

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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...".

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.