Presume two things are true. That Milwaukee benefits from a top-drawer research university and that UWM can benefit from more state help. We need to be certain that getting more state money for UWM doesn’t involve taking money away from Wisconsin’s existing top-drawer science research university – the one in Madison.

Any discussion of Milwaukee’s future starts by noting that one hour away is, by any measure, one of the nation’s top centers for science and engineering research. Madison isn’t exactly our suburbs, but it’s close.