During a year of extreme controversy and contentiousness on Wisconsin’s political scene, the value and need for the Public Policy Forum is more apparent than ever. Our in-depth reports, comprehensive fiscal analyses, and balanced policy discussions continue to shape local policy debates. We...
Annual Reports

The Public Policy Forum’s vision statement says we will strive to be “the indispensable resource for objective research and analysis to guide and shape public policy” in the region. While it would be presumptuous to say we have reached that goal, our continued progress in 2010 makes it safe to...

To say that 2009 was a successful year for the Forum would be an understatement. Financially, the Forum finished the year with a surplus of more than $30,000. That would be good in good times. It’s extraordinary in these times. The performance was due, in large part, to our members who stuck...

Last year was highlighted by a record number of research reports and a return to the Forum’s roots as expressed in its founding mission statement in 1913: “…to promote the adoption of scientific methods of managing and supervising municipal affairs…to cooperate with and facilitate the work of...