Dec-20-2022
What do New York’s Central Park and Boston’s Emerald Necklace have in common? First of all, these great parks are the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary social reformer and founder of American landscape architecture.
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Dec-17-2022
The debate over the controversial proposal to widen and reconstruct the 3.5-mile East-West corridor of I-94 seems to have reached a certain kind of endpoint this week.
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Dec-16-2022
The City of Waukesha could start breaking ground on a short, but critical stretch of water pipeline in just a matter of weeks, thanks to a Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors decision Thursday afternoon.
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Dec-16-2022
The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors on Thursday ordered new estimates for what to do with the Mitchell Park Domes. For now, the decision whether to demolish, fix or renovate the Domes is on hold. The landmark's future is in limbo with months of research to come.
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Dec-16-2022
For the first time in eight years, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors has a new policy for the Mitchell Park Domes.
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Dec-16-2022
The Milwaukee County Board on a narrow 8-9 vote decided not to officially oppose the eight-lane reconstruction plan proposed for Interstate 94 east-west.
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Dec-15-2022
The city's new water system will flow through a rerouted pipeline in Milwaukee County, which on Thursday granted Waukesha an easement in exchange for $275,000 in lease payments spread over 100 years.
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Dec-15-2022
Abortion will be on the ballot in April. Not only in who you pick to sit on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where the balance of power is at stake in this upcoming election, but also in a referendum.
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Dec-15-2022
The Milwaukee County Board approved an advisory referendum Thursday that will ask voters their opinion on Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban.
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Dec-14-2022
Some Milwaukee County officials are worried mistakes were made preceding the death of a 7-year-old and her 25-year-old mother, both of whom were pulled out of a vehicle submerged in Milwaukee's Northridge Lake last week in an apparent murder-suicide.
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Dec-13-2022
With a policy saying "all options" are on the table for Milwaukee's Mitchell Park Domes set for a vote Thursday, Milwaukee's County Executive said he's still unsure what the future holds for the site of the historic landmark.
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Dec-12-2022
WisDOT held its first public meeting regarding its proposal to expand I-94 from six to eight lanes in the Stadium Interchange; a controversial conversation about a dangerous stretch of road.
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Dec-12-2022
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation's proposal to widen the I-94 corridor to eight lanes through Milwaukee faced a lot of backlash at a public hearing Monday afternoon.
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Dec-10-2022
A Milwaukee County Board committee provided key approvals that will allow county administrators to move forward with two major affordable housing projects.
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Dec-09-2022
After many hours of public testimony, committee meetings, and floor debate, we recently led our respective bodies in adopting the annual City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County budgets.
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Dec-08-2022
In 1996, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confiscated a headdress from Forest County Potawatomi tribe member Dennis Shepard as part of a court case. Now that headdress is being returned to the tribe.
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Dec-08-2022
Members of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors have found themselves in a position to delay a huge, $300 million drinking water project for the City of Waukesha, by which it would divert and use water from Lake Michigan.
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Dec-08-2022
An eight-block stretch of Waukesha's major water utility project is on hold right now awaiting Milwaukee County approval to continue.
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Dec-08-2022
The Milwaukee County Board is again considering an advisory referendum asking voters their opinion on Wisconsin’s 1849 law banning abortion. It narrowly voted to reject a similar proposal in advance of the November election.
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Dec-07-2022
Construction has spanned nearly three years, and it’s cost Waukesha taxpayers $286 million. On Tuesday, Dec. 6, the city’s efforts to get clean drinking water from Lake Michigan took an unexpected turn.
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Dec-07-2022
The Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, commonly called the Domes, is perhaps the most debated of Milwaukee County’s assets.
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Dec-07-2022
A new policy for the Mitchell Park Domes received its first approval Tuesday from a committee of the Milwaukee County Board, but not before supervisors made some minor changes.
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Dec-06-2022
The Milwaukee County Committee on Parks and Culture voted Tuesday to expand their options on preserving the Mitchell Park Domes.
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Dec-06-2022
A new resolution on the future of the Mitchell Park Domes is heading to Milwaukee County supervisors after being approved by the committee Tuesday, Dec. 6.
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Dec-06-2022
The Domes' structural issues came to a head in 2016 when concrete pieces started falling from the ceiling. The Milwaukee County Committee on Parks and Culture wants to expand a policy to allow them to keep all options on the table when deciding the future of The Domes.
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