A high-tech business group is to meet this week in Oconomowoc. The location, between Madison and Milwaukee, is symbolic.
The goal is to emphasize the importance of linking the academic brainpower, entrepreneurial energy and industrial might of the state’s two largest cities to generate economic growth.
But the promise of synergy between Madison and Milwaukee has been long discussed and mostly unfulfilled. Last week, at a Board of Regents meeting, officials from Milwaukee demonstrated one of the reasons: petty rivalry.