No State Budget Public Hearings In Most Cities

The Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance budget hearing schedule leaves most pesky urban voters on the outside looking in - - or having to travel to speak to testify, or perhaps catch a glimpse of State Sen. Glenn Grothman, (R-West Bend), looking genuinely interested.

Hearings are set for April 4 in Greendale, a suburban Milwaukee GOP bastion, on April 8 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, on April 10 in Lake Delton (get in your cars, Madisonians and on April 18 in Baldwin, west of Eau Claire and convenient to curious Minnesotans.