Happy Daze in Milwaukee

摘要

Some might envision Milwaukee as a sleepy Midwestern news town, but that's hardly been the case in 2011. The year kicked off with a bang, as the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl (putting up a gaudy 60 rating/85 share on Fox affiliate WITI) and the full-throated protests to Gov. Scott Walker's budget bill, which proposed limiting the collective bargaining capability of unions, started up at the Capitol in Madison, 80 miles from Milwaukee. On June 16, the State Senate finally passed the budget.