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Museum prez’s profile comes at the wrong time

Michael Stafford resigned as head of the Milwaukee Public Museum on Friday after weeks of public battering for overseeing an institution that ran up a huge deficit, drained its endowment and was forced to lay off 56 staffers.

About time for a glowing profile of the guy, right?

The current issue of the University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni publication Letters & Science TODAY offers a two-page paean to the man at the center of the museum maelstrom.