SHIELD TAXPAYERS FROM OVERTURE RISK MARK BUGHER AND OTHER SMART FINANCIAL MINDS HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO BRAINSTORM FOR SOLUTIONS TO OVERTURE CENTER'S FALLING TRUST FUND.(OPINION)

From: The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: May 12, 2008 | Copyright information

City, arts and community leaders in Madison are wise to search for ways to help Overture Center now - before its growing financial troubles demand a taxpayer-funded bailout.

The Downtown arts and entertainment center's trust fund fell, in March, to a level where it could not make some of its debt repayments. Several sources - including philanthropist W. Jerome Frautschi, who made the original $205 million gift to build Overture Center - will help make up the shortfall, under financing agreements.

But if money from these sources isn't enough over the next four-and-a-half ...

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