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Noon Wednesday: Does Wisconsin Have Too Many Governments?

By Marisa Wojcik | Here & Now

August 28, 2019

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Wisconsin has an unusually high number of local governments, according to a new report from Wisconsin Policy Forum. Research director Jason Stein joins us today to talk about how the complicated network of governments in the state to can lead to redundancy and inefficiency when it comes to serving Wisconsin residents.

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