Episode 10

REBROADCAST: 2019 Moving Beyond Winners and Losers

March 10, 2023 (prerecorded 2019): An episode from the before times! We're taking this week off to focus on Town Meeting and local elections. We hope you enjoy this replay of our interview with Susan Clark, co-author of 'Slow Democracy.'

Here is the text from the original broadcast:

Why do we need direct democracy? This is one of many questions host Olga Peters and contributor Emilie Kornheiser ask guest Susan Clark. Clark is a Vermont-based author, democracy wonk, and town moderator.

To learn more about Slow Democracy and its co-authors Clark and Woden Teachout: http://slowdemocracy.org

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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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.