Jun-24-2022
More than $700,000 is going toward restoration and safety improvements at McKinley Beach in Milwaukee. The full county board just adopted a resolution spearheaded by Supervisor Sheldon Wasserman.
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Jun-24-2022
Back to Milwaukee, where city and county leaders visited several local institutions today, on June 24. Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson, Mayor Cavalier Johnson and State Senator La Tonya Johnson were a part of the tour -- starting at a Milwaukee staple -- Miss Kate's Diner.
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Jun-23-2022
Members of a Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors committee voted to recommend the rejection of the creation of a housing insecurity, eviction and racial equity subcommittee.
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Jun-23-2022
The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution to fund safety improvements at McKinley Beach, which officials closed after multiple drownings, near-drownings and riptide dangers in 2020.
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Jun-23-2022
Milwaukee County is one step closer to reopening McKinley Beach. Milwaukee County supervisors Thursday morning unanimously approved a $700,000 plan to restore and upgrade the safety at the beach. County officials shut down the beach because of safety concerns in 2021.
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Jun-22-2022
The Milwaukee County Parks Department is seeking to use COVID-19 stimulus funding to convert two sections of road to bicycle and pedestrian trails, and block thru-access to vehicles.
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Jun-17-2022
With the second tranche of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal pandemic aid expected to soon land in Milwaukee city and county coffers, officials are facing new decisions on how to spend the historic sums.
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Jun-16-2022
The Milwaukee County Board will consider a funding proposal to fix the dangerous swimming conditions at McKinley Beach. If it passes, according to the resolution’s author, the beach could reopen for swimming, with a higher degree of safety, by 2024.
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Jun-16-2022
Citing an urgent need to address dangerous conditions at the popular lakefront McKinley Beach, a Milwaukee County committee unanimously voted to approve $712,190 for a restoration aimed at preventing drownings.
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Jun-16-2022
Sonya Williams' first visit to the Marcia P. Coggs Human Services Center was more than four decades ago. Since then, the west side resident has visited the food pantry in the basement, the Medicaid enrollment booth on the first floor and the aging services department on the third floor.
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Jun-15-2022
Like so many Milwaukee County structures, the plant-filled glass beehive-shaped Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, known simply to many as the Domes, have long needed maintenance. But there was heightened concern after a 2013 incident, when bits of concrete fell from high within the desert dome.
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Jun-15-2022
From the beginning, the contradiction at the heart of the effort to save Mitchell Park Domes has been that Milwaukee County policy makers have resolutely supported a policy to restore and preserve the domes as they currently exist, but wouldn’t commit to funding such a project.
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Jun-15-2022
Back in 2004, the non-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau did a report on the Milwaukee Brewers’ finances that added a recommendation: that the team “should consider developing portions of the 265 acres of parking lots and vacant land around Miller Park,” as the Business Journal reported.
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Jun-15-2022
Nearly a decade after a piece of concrete caused concern when it fell from the ceiling of one of the Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee County has yet to chart a viable future for the structures.
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Jun-14-2022
It appears the county’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will likely move out of the Marcia P. Coggs Human Services Center at 1220 W. Vliet St. after all.
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Jun-07-2022
A possible mixed-use commercial development on a portion of American Family Field's parking lots could help finance the stadium's long-term renovations. But that conceptual idea — part of a new Milwaukee County Board proposal — is a long way from reality, a Brewers executive said Tuesday.
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Jun-07-2022
The Milwaukee County Youth Commission proposed last month by Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson and County Executive David Crowley is now official. The board passed legislation to create the commission in May, and the county executive signed it this week.
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Jun-06-2022
A plan is in the works to possibly bring an entertainment district to the Brewers' home base. A number of sports franchises around the country have done it, so the county board supervisor whose district includes the area around AmFam Field says why not?
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Jun-06-2022
Milwaukee County Supervisor Peter Burgelis is asking fellow board members to encourage development of an entertainment district on the parking lots around American Family Field, and suggests they could be a way to generate money for long-term maintenance of the stadium.
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May-25-2022
McKinley Beach on Milwaukee’s East Side will remain closed this year over concerns about unsafe swimming conditions, but one county supervisor says he will introduce legislation to address safety issues at the beach.
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May-25-2022
Milwaukee County will again be opening pools, splash pads and aquatic centers for the warm-weather season. But Cool Waters in West Allis won't be one of them.
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May-24-2022
As temperatures begin to rise and many pools and water parks across Milwaukee County are closed, Lake Michigan remains one of the only options for beachgoers this season — and a closed-off McKinley Beach remains a popular option for many residents.
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May-24-2022
Milwaukee's McKinley Beach will not be open in time for swimmers this summer. The beach closed in August of 2020 because of multiple drownings, near-drownings, and riptide dangers.
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May-19-2022
The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office is projecting a 2022 overtime deficit of roughly $4.6 million — a result of extreme staffing shortages at the County Jail.
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May-17-2022
The Milwaukee County Jail is currently understaffed by nearly 50%, according to a new report from the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). In a report dated May 11 and headed for the Milwaukee County Board, the MCSO said the jail is staffed at approximately 56% of what was budgeted for 2022.
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