Episode 26

Rep. Mollie Burke on the 2025 Legislative Session

July 27, 2025: Rep. Mollie Burke (Windham-8) looks back at the recent session and her 17 years on the House Committee on Transportation and Climate Caucus.

This year was about "holding the line," said Burke, against several funding gaps and proposals designed to roll back climate policy.

Burke also outlines her reasons for voting "no" on the education reform bill.

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

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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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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.