Municipal leaders from Appleton, Green Bay, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Kaukauna, Menasha and Neenah ask federal authorities to consider rail line from Milwaukee to Green Bay
“Warning: Superspreader Trump Visiting WI. Mask Up”
Plane circling downtown Milwaukee in advance of President Trump’s rally in suburban Waukesha.
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The City of Milwaukee is selling 20 empty lots to qualified families for $1 and providing them a $30,000 forgivable grant to build if they live in the new homes for at least seven years
The new trains would function as extensions of the Hiawatha, allowing riders to also access the existing stations in Milwaukee, Sturevant, Glenview and Chicago without changing trains.
"Their owners love to throw their weight around in our political system, and so they should bear the costs of alienating their customers," Matt Rothschild writes
How to grow Milwaukee to 1 million people? "Build the research funding and capacity of UW-Milwaukee and watch the city’s economy and population grow," writes Bruce Murphy
"It’s simple – expanding I-94 to 8 lanes with a large interchange is the most harmful option that WISDOT has put forth for the 3-mile corridor," write Cassie Steiner, Cheryl Nenn and Terry Wiggins
Today's proposal to replace the elevated I-794 freeway between 6th Street and the Hoan Bridge with a street-level boulevard has many similarities to a similar situation that unfolded in the 1980s.
"The sham that Gableman is running is shaming Wisconsin before the eyes of the entire country, and it’s an awful waste of our taxpayer dollars," writes Matt Rothschild
Our office is wrecked, our store is a water soaked, smokey mess, but we are in the midst of a global pandemic and a worldwide fight for justice and equality, so it's back to work for Urban Milwaukee
Wisconsin wins grants to study rail expansion from Milwaukee to Green Bay, Madison, Eau Claire and Chicago as well as Eau Claire to Twin Cities and a third daily trip between the Twin Cities, Milwaukee and Chicago
Redesign of Villard Avenue will include raised bike lanes, raised intersections, curb extensions, bus bulbs, lighting and signal improvements, a pedestrian plaza, and other streetscaping enhancements.
"For [Janet] Protasiewicz to acquiesce to calls to recuse from defenders of gerrymandering would be a step backwards in more ways than one," writes Bruce Thompson
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is seeking community input on a study to convert the Stadium Freeway spur into a boulevard on Milwaukee’s West Side.
"I’ve been reporting on the foundation since 1988 and what strikes me is how it has become progressively radicalized over the last decade or so," writes Bruce Murphy