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The Montpelier Happy Hour — 204 episodes
News Roundup with Randolph T. Holhut: H.995 education bill, lawmakers retire, Brattleboro and Hinsdale debate bridges
Act 181, Primary Candidates, and the Legislative Session without End with John Walters
REBROADCAST: Housing and Land Use
Uneven Impacts? Vermont's Act 181 Tier 3 and Rural Communities
News roundup with John Walters: Staying optimistic (really)
REBROADCAST: Mike Pieciak and Supporting Vermont's Businesses Through Positive Regulation
Vermont's Annual Town Meeting, more than just a meeting - OR - How do we define ourselves?
A promotion, a budget address, and cost shifting with John Walters
What Vermont's municipalities need in 2026
State of Working Vermont report 2025: Vermont's economy is the same but different
Vermont's Legislature returns to Montpelier. Education is Gov. Scott's top priority.
December 1 Education Tax Rate Letter with Rep. Emilie Kornheiser
A Deeper Look at the School District Redistricting Task Force Report
News roundup with John Walters
Randy Holhut on Windham County's local news ecosystem, the VDP's new chair, and BCTV turns 50
A reading of H.91
Rep. Leslie Goldman on the 2025 Legislative Session
Rep. Christopher Morrow on the 2025 Legislative Session
Campaign finances, campaign 2026, community news, and why they all matter
REBROADCAST: Public policy, systems, and us
Chaos, building alliances, and AI in newsrooms
Sen. Nader Hashim shares his take on the 2025 Legislative session
Three Reps weigh in on their first 2025 Legislative session
REBROADCAST: Preparing for the first of many firsts
Catching up on the news with John Walters
Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun on the 2025 Legislative Session
Rep. Mollie Burke on the 2025 Legislative Session
Sen. Wendy Harrison on the 2025 Legislative Session
The veto of H.91
Fixing the squeeze in Vermont's education funding
Three perspectives on the new biennium
Tax policy and the dirty words of 2025
Our Political Ancestor: Governor Deane Davis
Preparing for the first of many firsts
What we talk about when everything feels like work
December 1 education tax letter
REBROADCAST: Civic Yarn: Ep1 – Rep. Jill Krowinski and Sen. Becca Balint
"A lurch to the right and the weird": A post-elections conversation
REBROADCAST: COVID, elections, uncertainty, and all the feels
All the November 5 Feels
Reference Based Pricing, a possible tool for reducing healthcare costs
Negative mailers, being nice, and what's different about campaign 2024?
Voting styles and political parties in Vermont
Health Care in Vermont: The Office of the Health Care Advocate
Health Care in Vermont: Care, not just treatment
REBROADCAST: Health care - we all need it. But can we all afford it?
Is Vermont's State Hazard Mitigation Plan effective?
2025 Vermont Housing Needs: Make sure you're solving the problems that actually exists
One Big Puzzle: Brattleboro's 2024 Crime Data
Spicey and hopeful political nihilists
Esther Charlestin: Systems change and moving forward together
2024 Primary wrap-up and the soothing sound of Phil Scott's voice
Primary 2024: Zon Eastes
The Myth is a Myth and Other Stories of Vermont and Hippies
Primary 2024: Emilie Kornheiser
Primary 2024: Amanda Ellis-Thurber
Primary 2024: Emily Carris Duncan
Primary 2024: Ian Goodnow
Primary 2024: David Gartenstein
The 2024 veto session... as described on social media
REBROADCAST: Seeking the (many) single solution to the housing crisis
Crafting good policy and learning the value of strong relationships
Listening to constituents and casting unique votes
Viewing the 2024 Legislative session from the outside and the inside
2024 and the Legislative session of doing hard things
Campus violence. Revenge porn. And. Hope.
Taxes and paying for civilization
The Degree of the Crisis has Increased
A municipal perspective on 2024 legislation
The State of Vermont can't be just any employer
State Auditor Evaluates State's Role in EB-5 Fraud
Balancing Act: Caring for vulnerable people and a state's willingness to spend
The State of Working Vermont. Thumbs up? Thumbs down?
Badges of Corruption
The quiet significance of Annual Town Meeting 2024
Education funding, conscious choices, and defaults
Intersecting crises
Preparing for the Presidential Primary and building civic muscles
Reflecting on 50 years at the Women's Freedom Center
REBROADCAST: Checking in on the state of Vermont's rural internet
Finding more pieces for the housing puzzle
Updating the definition of abuse
Keeping eyes and ears on the State House
Welcome 2024's Legislative Session!
Goodbye 2023! Hello 2024
Funding Vermont's Future with 3%
Health care - we all need it. But can we all afford it?
Understanding Vermont's potential 18.5% education tax increase (hint: it might be less)
Is Vermont's regulated cannabis market living up to expectations?
Episode 250!
Funding to mitigate disasters
Opiates and moving past approaches that don't help
The myths of rural Vermont
Vermont's lawsuit against Meta
REBROADCAST: Rural Issues in a rural state
REBROADCAST: H.57, the power of witnessing, and flipping the wage script
Is impeachment the best path to accountability?
Dams, overpayments, and running state government
Our Political Ancestor Philip H. Hoff
Our Political Ancestor Gov. William H. Wills
Our Political Ancestor Gov. John E. Weeks
Our Political Ancestor Gov. Frederick Holbrook
Our Political Ancestor Gov. Thomas Chittenden
REBROADCAST: Welcome to Themepark Vermont
Flooding 2023 - The crisis is over. Now the hard work.
Flooding 2023: Rebuilding isn't enough
REBROADCAST: A budget that meets people's needs
REBROADCAST: Civil debate, or the lack thereof
Shaping the Future one data point at a Time
S.5: Reducing Vermont's greenhouse gas emissions and keeping heat affordable
Post cross-over, what is happening with Paid Family Medical Leave
Town Meeting Roundup 2023
REBROADCAST: 2019 Moving Beyond Winners and Losers
Online sports betting in Vermont
Seeking the (many) single solution to housing
Shield Laws and their role in Reproductive Liberty
Fatal partners
A budget that meets people's needs
Designing policy as if it's New Year's Day 365
A return to paid family medical leave and MLK
New Senator at Week 1
Housing, child care, rural communities, and 2023
Vermont needs a new normal and goodbye 2022!
Taxes as infrastructure
Checking in on the House Committee on Human Services
Checking in with Gov Ops
Seeing slavery in the Vermont Constitution
Abolishing Slavery in Vermont
Candidate interview with Brenda Siegel
Candidate Interview with Rick Morton
When the flood of money dries up
Candidate Interview with Tim Wessel
Candidate interview with Charlie Kimball
Protecting our personal data
Candidate Interview: Michael Pieciak is running for State Treasurer
Capping off the 2021-2022 Legislative biennium
Welcome to Themepark Vermont
What didn't happen during the Legislative session?
REBROADCAST: A reading of the Vermont Constitution, part 1
Act 250 and a history of land use in VT
Building a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Vermont
COVID relief for homeowners and other conversations about housing
Supporting Reach Up in the time of COVID
Everything that's old is new again
Town Meeting 2022: Vermont in miniature
Is it time to switch from pandemic planning to endemic planning?
Special rebroadcast of 'Legislating Morality: Drugs' and remembering David Poses
What's up with the vetoes?
An update on Vermont state pensions
Can a tax credit reduce child poverty?
Redistricting and what changes it may bring
Welcome 2022 and a new Legislative Session
A reading of the 1997 court decision Brigham v. State
A reading of Gov. Madeleine M. Kunin's 1985 inaugural address
Municipal mask mandates
Determining demand, fees, and licenses for Vermont's recreational cannabis market
An update on the She-cession
Pulling on the Many Threads of Vermont's Education Funding System
Rural issues in a rural state
Preparing for ARPA - a local perspective
Guides to welcoming refugees into rural communities
Redefining dignity and the nature of work
The state of emergency housing after the end of the state's emergency order
Public Health lessons for Vermont: take 2
Hybrid meetings, unemployment, and observing Labor Day
Reading and reflecting on the Vermont Constitution (part 2)
A reading of the Vermont Constitution, part 1
So, you want an energy grid powered by renewables?
Finding a first home in a second home market
Building Vermont's Climate Action Plan
What is up with technology in Vermont?
The long process of voting
A veto for a new rental housing bill
Fairness, lawsuits, and the future of Vermont's education voucher system
Local control, yes! Well, maybe?
Public health decisions in a pandemic and the need for equity
Cannabis in Vermont, where are we now?
ARPA funding and changes in Vermont's health insurance market
Summing up the Legislative (Zoom) session
A proposal for the future of Vermont
Because taxes pay for things we like. Right?
Voting rights for 16 & 17 year olds and Town Charters
Finding the best way forward with prison reforms
Lighting the legislative Christmas tree on fire and other adventures in revising tax code
A windfall of money and future sustainability
Long-term funding issues and their immediate pains
Community broadband and the last mile
Land sovereignty: what it is and what it is not
Transitioning to a low carbon future
Reviewing progress at the legislative midpoint
Reducing Harm and Building Connection
Civil debate, or the lack thereof
Supporting Older Vermonters with dignity
Expanding child care takes more than adding programs
How to recover from a pandemic
Taxes, fairness, and sustainability
When staying home is not staying safe
Navigating a remote legislature, the 2021 edition
Welcome 2021!
New leadership looks towards new biennium
NPAs and increasing citizen participation in government
The ongoing protections of civil liberties
A new biennium in an ongoing pandemic
The elections happened, now what?