My phone rang late this morning, and on the other end was Laurie Anne Spagnola, the head of a local nonprofit who had read my story in Sunday's edition about Milwaukee-York ties.
Take a read of the story here. Or, for a short background, suffice it to say York and Milwaukee seem to both have locations of quite a few large companies (Harley, Johnson Controls, Bon-Ton) but no one could give us a smoking gun of a reason why this is the case.
Neither could Spagnola. But she totally agreed that there's something there.
"I've been thinking this forever," she told me.
Spagnola is president of the Children's Home of York and sits on the national board for the Alliance for Children and Families -- based in Milwaukee. Traveling there once per quarter, Spagnola said she could feel something familiar about the city.
It reminds her of York. And with the nonprofit tie, she pointed out something else about the connection.
"It's just not for-profit big guys" around York that end up connected to Milwaukee, she said.
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