Former Madison mayor Paul Soglin makes some points on changes we have seen since the Overture has been built.
Overture is not the old Civic Center. The design and the price tag made sure of that. Overture lost the very essence of the old Civic Center: a place to encourage public access to the performing arts, arts of the people, new art forms, innovation, arts that transcended economic resources of the ticket purchaser.
He does also suggest a way to move forward:
There is a solution but it will not be found in a structure that created the problem. There is a difference between inviting the public to comment and genuine public control.
