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Article: TIME FOR MADISON TO SECEDE.(FRONT)(THE TALK)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- June 23, 2005
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Byline: Doug Moe
IT IS becoming painfully clear that after decades of fighting and carping, the city of Madison and the rest of the state of Wisconsin simply do not get along.
Of late this point has been hammered home by the fierce city-state debates over the minimum wage, smoking bans and all manner of crunch-time hassles over the city's treatment in the state budget. But it is not a recent phenomenon.
It probably goes back further, but from at least the 1960s, Madison and Wisconsin have not understood one another. In the '60s, many out-state parents were loath to send their graduating high school seniors to college in Madison, where they ...