Professor Donald Moynihan organized an April symposium at Monona Terrace involving 130 representatives from local government, state agencies, engineering firms, academia, non-profits and the Wisconsin Legislature in a discussion of “From Sandbags to Sanity: Policy Implications of the Floods of 2008.”
Speakers included university experts and representatives from Governor Doyle’s Wisconsin Recovery Task Force and the Wisconsin Legislative Council.
Co-sponsored by the La Follette School, Water Resources Institute, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, the symposium sought to set forth the strongest research, ask the toughest questions and involve the hands-on people who work to solve these problems on a day-to-day basis.