Episode 25

Sen. Wendy Harrison on the 2025 Legislative Session

** Warning. This conversation includes: online violence and rape **

June 20, 2025: Vermont State Senator Wendy Harrison shares her take on the Legislative Session. She updates listeners on bills that received less media attention, such as Act 63, or the "Kids Code," which aims to protect young people online. 

Read Act 63 "Kids Code: https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2026/S.69

FBI warning parents about online violent groups targeting young people: https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA250306

RCMP warning parents about violent online groups targeting young people: https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2024/08/rcmp-reminds-canadians-about-violent-online-groups-targeting-youth

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.