Mayor Paul Soglin has thankfully yet to claim he?s “focused like a laser” on creating jobs. But Soglin wants to make sure economic issues are front and center in a city often rapped for working against, not with, the private sector.
“I?m trying to get us to the point where everything we do, we think about the economic implications,” Soglin told the city Economic Development Committee Wednesday evening. It hasn?t always been that way. Buoyed by the twin pillars of state government and the UW-Madison, the city has historically been insulated from economic realities.