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7 things we *think* we know about Madison in 2015: Sifting and winnowing became slashing and burning at UW

No. 2: There was a time not so very long ago when every serious discussion of the economic future of this state included the unassailable assertion of the University of Wisconsin–Madison as one of the most, if not the most, important economic engines in the state. Two thousand fifteen, however, was the year that notion became assailable. And Governor Scott Walker assailed away.