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Vermont Edition: Live from the Statehouse!

Representatives stand outside of the House chambers on the first day of the 2025 session, awaiting their turn to pick their seat.
Sophie Stephens
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Vermont Public
Representatives stand outside of the House chambers on the first day of the 2025 session, awaiting their turn to pick their seat.

Lawmakers across our region are reconvening in Montpelier for the first day of the 2025 legislative session. Broadcasting live from the Cedar Creek room, Vermont Edition takes listeners inside the golden dome for the first day excitement.

Sen. Phil Baruth, Democrat-Progressive of Chittenden-Central, was just reelected Senate president pro tempore and joins us fresh off the vote to fill us in on his to priorities. Sen. Pat Brennan will share his thoughts on filling the seat of the late Dick Sears. House Minority Leader Republican Rep. Patty McCoy gives us her take on the future of the clean heat standard. Democrat Sen. Ginny Lyons will talk housing, health and childcare, and Progressive Caucus leader, Rep. Kate Logan, tells us the role her party will play this session. Plus, a conversation between one of the longest serving lawmakers — Rep. Alice Emmons, elected in 1983 — and the youngest member of the Legislature, Rep. Lucy Boyden.

Broadcast live on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Mikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here & Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.
Jon has spent his entire adult life working in broadcast journalism. He began his career in Baltimore at WYPR, and has since been a producer for WHYY, Vox, The Majority Report with Sam Seder, and The Talkhouse. Jon is a lifelong recording artist whose projects include Repelican, The Art Department, and Dungeonesse. He lives with his wife in Panton, Vermont.
Andrea Laurion joined Vermont Public as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.