REBROADCAST: Checking in on the state of Vermont's rural internet

February 2, 2024 (Originally recorded on 10/28/22): It's a running joke on this show that whenever we discuss rural internet challenges, our internet blinks out. We like to think it's because we're special, but the only specialness going on is with the Community Union Districts (CUDs) and their efforts to bring high-speed internet to their member towns. Today, Christine Hallquist, executive director of the Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB), updates us on rolling out broadband where none exists (yet).

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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.