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Championing Urban Life in the Cream City. Subscribe to our email list: A&E only tweets at @urbanmkeae

Milwaukee, WI
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@UrbanMilwaukee
Urban Milwaukee
1 year
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
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In 2023, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin raised $16.14 million, while the Republican Party of Wisconsin raised just $3.95 million
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2 years
Marquette University will no longer invest in companies involved in oil or natural gas exploration or extraction
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Urban Milwaukee
2 years
Feds give final approval to $32 million grant to fund second daily Chicago, Milwaukee, Twin Cities train
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4 years
House that burned yesterday has lengthy history of visits from the Milwaukee Police Department
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Urban Milwaukee
4 years
Three Wisconsin Republican legislators who opposed federal pandemic relief for state governments took at least $150,000 each for their companies
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Urban Milwaukee
4 years
“Warning: Superspreader Trump Visiting WI. Mask Up” Plane circling downtown Milwaukee in advance of President Trump’s rally in suburban Waukesha. Image from Rural America 2020
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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
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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.
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2 months
Wisconsin taxpayers paid millions for trains now in use in Nigeria
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10 months
DPW considering wider sidewalks and fewer traffic lanes on Water Street in the Third Ward
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Urban Milwaukee
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Five Brewers executives gave maximum donations to Robin Vos, just two weeks after $366 million funding deal for the stadium passed
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@UrbanMilwaukee
Urban Milwaukee
3 years
"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
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"One way [Eric Hovde] became wealthy, it’s now become clear, is by not paying federal taxes," writes Bruce Murphy
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Urban Milwaukee
1 year
A new Amtrak service could make it more convenient to commute between Milwaukee, St. Paul and Chicago.
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Urban Milwaukee
3 years
City will pay Sterling Brown $750,000, admit a constitutional violation of his rights and commit to updating MPD's standard operating procedures
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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
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Urban Milwaukee
3 years
Richard and Liz Uihlein's $4 million contribution to group connected to the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot has Uline facing blowback
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Ridership on Milwaukee’s bus rapid transit service, Connect 1, continues to grow
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10 months
Six years later, nothing has been built at Foxconn campus, but taxpayers have already spent hundreds of billions on the project
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Urban Milwaukee
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The plan to alter I-794 looks at removing about 10 blocks of elevated freeway through Downtown, but does not include removing the Hoan Bridge
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1 year
Milwaukee is launching a new plaza program aimed at allowing community groups to turn underused street space into gathering spaces
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@UrbanMilwaukee
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5 months
"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
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@UrbanMilwaukee
Urban Milwaukee
9 months
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.
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Urban Milwaukee
2 years
8,000-seat soccer stadium, 3,500-person indoor concert venue, hotel and apartment building planned for Westown
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Urban Milwaukee
2 years
"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
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3 months
Data shows that the city of Milwaukee’s traffic calming effort is working
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Milwaukee wins $36 million grant to overhaul 6th Street through the heart of the city
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4 months
Nomad Coffee Bar will operate a 2,900-square-foot cafe at Vel R. Phillips Plaza
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4 years
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
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Urban Milwaukee
4 years
Wisconsin was the only state to do a widescale shutdown during the 1918 pandemic, and had a mortality rate far lower than the national average
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Urban Milwaukee
6 months
A proposal from the Department of City Development aims to make it easier, faster and possibly cheaper to build more housing in Milwaukee
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5 months
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
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@UrbanMilwaukee
Urban Milwaukee
1 year
Dan Kelly's financial disclosure forms show payments from the Republican Party. No such work done by Janet Protasiewicz
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Urban Milwaukee
2 years
MU polls finds 75% of Democrats, 51% of Republicans back legalization of cannabis
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Urban Milwaukee
7 months
Wolski’s will celebrate its 115th birthday with a block party on Oct. 15.
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10 months
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.
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6 months
Milwaukee’s first streetcar extension opens Sunday. A GOP congressman is trying to stop it.
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8 months
"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
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Urban Milwaukee
2 years
The Common Council adopted a measure Tuesday to give city employees up to six weeks of paid parental leave
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Gov. Evers' email issue pales when compared to Scott Walker's email issues, both at Milwaukee County and in the governor's office
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4 years
Frank Nitty speaking at the March On Washington
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After marching 750 miles from Milwaukee to Washington, activist Frank Nitty made a passionate demand for change at the #MarchOnWashington .
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A coalition of opponents wants to pump the brakes on a $1.7 billion expansion of Interstate 94 through Milwaukee
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2 years
Redistricting approved by the Wisconsin Supreme Court could leave just 3 of 99 districts with competitive races
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2 years
Rep. Shae Sortwell turns off Facebook comments on his page after facing claims of child abuse
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Urban Milwaukee
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New protected bicycle lanes now line the North Avenue commercial corridor on the East Side
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Urban Milwaukee
3 years
Republicans charge taxpayers for private attorneys to defend secret legislative scheme before it’s even been created
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2 years
Workers at the Pabst Theater Group's five venues are organizing with the Milwaukee Area Service and Hospitality Workers Organization
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The city is seeking a state law change that would allow it to tow and impound vehicles driven recklessly
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3 years
Sen. Tammy Baldwin pushes for federal legislation to guarantee equal access to abortion services throughout the U.S
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The Village of Whitefish Bay's rejection of affordable housing brings back ghosts of the past
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3 years
Milwaukee County is on track to have lowest level of street homelessness ever recorded, housing director said
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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.
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3 years
Justice Rebecca Bradley hears challenge to Evers' health order from donor who gave her campaign $20,000
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2 years
@mnolangray Of course, it's Milwaukee
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4 years
“I would like to disinvite all those people that are running around with long guns for no apparent reason,” Gov. Evers said
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Urban Milwaukee
3 years
"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
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@UrbanMilwaukee
Urban Milwaukee
2 years
The 31-story, 333-unit apartment building would be built on a "landmark" site in the Historic Third Ward.
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@UrbanMilwaukee
Urban Milwaukee
11 months
The most read article in the past 24 hours: Wisconsin Planning Passenger Trains To Green Bay, Madison @compujeramey
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“I intend to break from decades of disconnection between City Hall and our schools,” said Mayor Cavalier Johnson
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