{"id":7244,"date":"2015-03-17T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7244"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:33:14","slug":"democrats-to-host-budget-listening-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7244","title":{"rendered":"Democrats to Host Budget Listening Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders and members of the Joint Committee on Finance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/index.iml?Article=344148\">announced<\/a>\u00a0yesterday they would hold nine\u00a0public\u00a0listening sessions over the next few weeks\u00a0in an effort to receive more public input on the proposed state budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Committee is hosting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7206\">four official public hearings<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; the first will be held\u00a0tomorrow, Wednesday, March 18, in Brillion.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic listening session\u00a0schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, March 19<\/strong>\u00a0from 5 to 8 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Wisconsin+Rapids+City+Hall\/@44.394694,-89.82982,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8800882186c4986d:0x40bc8e03bbf443e6\">Common Council Chambers<\/a>, <strong>Wisconsin Rapids<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday, March 21<\/strong>\u00a0from 12 to 4 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/University+of+Wisconsin+-+Marathon+County\/@44.958239,-89.644296,17z\/data=!4m5!1m2!2m1!1suw+marathon+county+terrace+room!3m1!1s0x8800211f30254123:0x64933f74bb7e70a0\">UW-Marathon County Terrace Room<\/a>, <strong>Wausau<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday, March 21<\/strong> from 10 am to 2 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Nicolet+College\/@45.608014,-89.410885,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4d55aa850075a07d:0x244aac139f531f73\">Nicolet Technical College Room 207<\/a>, <strong>Rhinelander<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, March 24<\/strong> from 4 to 7 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/West+High+School\/@44.521344,-88.033237,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8802fa9658155365:0xaf227dec0e54a2ee\">West High School Thune Center<\/a>, <strong>Green Bay<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday, March 28<\/strong>\u00a0from 10 am to 2 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Menomonie+Public+Library\/@44.887339,-91.928605,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87f87b95ef4dd215:0x76ffcf432405a24e\">Menomonie Public Library<\/a>, <strong>Menomonie<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday, March 28\u00a0<\/strong>from 12 to 4 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/75+N+Bonson+St,+Platteville,+WI+53818\/@42.7348345,-90.4786563,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87fd250fe04dc3f1:0x6acca102090b7770\">Common Council Chambers<\/a>, <strong>Platteville<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Monday, March 30<\/strong>\u00a0from 4 to 7 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/University+Of+Wisconsin+Oshkosh\/@44.021364,-88.550861,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8803ebe40a08408b:0xb8f8ec18c1c8b267\">UW-Oshkosh Reeve Union<\/a>, <strong>Oshkosh<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, March 31<\/strong> from 5 to 8 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/100+E+Fountain+St,+Dodgeville,+WI+53533\/@42.9593154,-90.1298415,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87fd65c039e96471:0xa724768c85e40c58\">Common Council Chambers<\/a>, <strong>Dodgeville<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday, April 11<\/strong>\u00a0from 10 am to 3 pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/University+of+Wisconsin-Eau+Claire\/@44.79542,-91.504596,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87f8bda1c1f99121:0x8e4f27fb702ea176\">UW-Eau Claire Centennial Hall<\/a>, <strong>Eau Claire\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders and members of the Joint Committee on Finance announced\u00a0yesterday they would hold nine\u00a0public\u00a0listening sessions over the next few weeks\u00a0in an effort to receive more public input on the proposed state budget. The Finance Committee is hosting\u00a0four official public&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7244\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[108,34],"class_list":["post-7244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw-system","tag-2015-17-state-budget","tag-joint-finance-committee","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}