NYTimes on why Obama picked my alma mater, U. of Wisconsin, to launch the fall campaign

Read the full article here.

I might add that Madison is one of the nicest, most livable cities in America, with sandwiched between two large lakes and home of the state capital. I chose to go there over equally good graduate schools and cities, including Chapel Hill and Austin, and no regrets (except when it was minus 40 degrees in February). I miss Madison but San Francisco feels like a bigger version of it, right on the Pacific coast!