Residents around the state will have a chance to listen in as legislators debate Governor Deval Patrick’s $34.8 billion budget proposal at a series of public hearings set to kick off Wednesday.
The hearings on the fiscal 2014 budget, run by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Ways and Means, begin in Worcester and Greenfield and return to the Boston area next week with a Feb. 27 session at South Shore Vocational Technical High School in Hanover. Residents will have a chance to speak at the end of each hearing, if time allows.
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To all the elected officials reading the Globe today. Deval is gone in two years. If you want to join him vote for his tax increases. We do not need rail service to Springfield or New Bedford. Be sensible. Education needs improvement, infrastructure needs upkeep. Do not put the burden on the taxpayers till you have cut out waste and fraud. Do not spend money you don't have on worthless transportation projects. This is not the time for elaborate projects. People are living paycheck to paycheck. Gas is approaching $4.00 a gallon again. Think of the people you represent.