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JS Online: Milwaukee County’s Washington Park Designated a Historic Landmark

Nov-20-2023

The Milwaukee County Landmarks Committee has designated Milwaukee County’s Washington Park as a historic landmark.

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  • Board of Supervisors
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  • 2023

WISN 12: Washington Park, an Olmsted Creation, Named Historic County Landmark in Milwaukee

Nov-20-2023

Milwaukee's Washington Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed New York's Central Park and the U.S. Capitol Grounds in Washington D.C., has been named a Historic Landmark in Milwaukee County.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Shepherd Express: Milwaukee County Historical Society Designates Washington Park as Historic Landmark

Nov-20-2023

On November 13, 2023, the Milwaukee County Landmarks Committee, overseen by the Milwaukee County Historical Society, officially designated Washington Park as a Historic County Landmark.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Milwaukee Independent: Milwaukee Celebrates 25th Annual Holiday Lights Festival at Pere Marquette Park

Nov-20-2023

The city of Milwaukee sparkled brighter on November 16 as the 25th Annual Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival commenced in Pere Marquette Park. Hosted by Milwaukee Downtown BID #21, this year’s festival was another dazzling showcase of holiday cheer and community spirit.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: County Funds New Rhino Facility for Zoo

Nov-17-2023

he Milwaukee County Zoo will begin work on a new rhinoceros facility in 2024. The 2024 budget includes approximately $6.9 million for design and construction of a rhinoceros habitat and exhibit area for the zoo.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

JS Online: Mitchell Park Domes Friends Group Vows to Deliver a Plan to Save the Milwaukee Landmark

Nov-17-2023

The Friends of the Domes is promising to soon offer a comprehensive funding plan to preserve Milwaukee's decades-old attraction and revamp the surrounding Mitchell Park.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: County Will Re-Evaluate Cultural Contributions

Nov-16-2023

Milwaukee County could soon formalize a process for re-evaluating its financial contributions to cultural institutions in Milwaukee.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

JS Online: Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley Approves $1.37 Billion Budget for 2024

Nov-15-2023

In his first budget since the approval of a 0.4% sales tax increase, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley signed off on his $1.37 billion budget for 2024 Wednesday without issuing any vetoes, marking the end of a quiet budget season.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

620 WTMJ: Milwaukee County Budget Approved With First Surplus in Two Decades

Nov-15-2023

The 2024 Milwaukee County budget got its final approval Wednesday, November 15, with Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley adding his signature at an event held at the Concordia 27 housing development near Wells and 27th St. on the Near West Side.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Crowley, Nicholson Herald 2024 Budget As ‘New Day’ for Milwaukee

Nov-15-2023

For Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and County Board Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson it’s “a new day” in Milwaukee County. That’s the phrase the county executive and the chairwoman have repeatedly employed to describe a 2024 county budget that would have been impossible just a year ago.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Wisconsin Examiner: Milwaukee County Stops Taking Fathers to Court to Pay Back Medicaid for Childbirth Costs

Nov-14-2023

Milwaukee County is on the verge of ending the practice of demanding that unwed fathers pay back the Medicaid program for the cost of covering the birth of their children.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Could Park Friends Help Prevent Illegal Dumping?

Nov-14-2023

This kind of dumping has been a nuisance throughout the parks system and a drain on Parks’ limited resources. Sup. Shawn Rolland drafted an amendment to the 2024 county budget asking the department to look into developing a neighborhood-watch-style program for the parks to “crowdsource the eyes across the county,” as Rolland put it.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

OnMilwaukee: Greendale's Threatened Stelzner Farm, Now Getting a New Life

Nov-14-2023

There’s something we love about an old barn. The evocative, ramshackle look that suggests long, hard work taking place. The romance of the rustic rural farm life. The history, perhaps, of immigrants seeking the American Dream.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Southside Park Getting A Fence You Didn’t Know It Needed

Nov-11-2023

Milwaukee County’s Boerner Botanical Gardens is getting a fence you probably didn’t know it needed. The 2024 Milwaukee County Budget adopted by supervisors Thursday included approximately $198,000 for Milwaukee County Parks to plan and design a perimeter fence around the gardens.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Citing Racial Bias, County Ends Birth Cost Recovery Program

Nov-10-2023

With the passage of the 2024 budget, the Milwaukee County Board has ended the practice of Birth Cost Recovery.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

JS Online: Milwaukee County Board Passes Amended 2024 Budget. Here's What To Know

Nov-09-2023

The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.37 billion recommended 2024 budget Thursday, weaving in additional services in a budget season full of investments compared to cuts as seen in prior years.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Board Adopts 2024 Budget, Setting Up Battle With Crowley

Nov-09-2023

The Milwaukee County Board voted Thursday to approve a $1.4 billion budget for county government in 2024, but the budget process isn’t over.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Parks System Losing Trees Faster Than It Can Plant Them

Nov-08-2023

The Milwaukee County Parks System, with 15,000 acres and approximately 1.5 million trees, represents the greatest preserve of natural areas in Milwaukee County.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Is It the End of Battery Electric Buses for Milwaukee?

Nov-07-2023

Milwaukee County’s top transportation officials recently said there are no battery electric bus (BEB) manufacturers the county can do business with in the near term.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Board and County Exec At Odds Over Debt, Spending

Nov-05-2023

The Milwaukee County Board is moving to pack as much spending as it can into the 2024 budget, and finds itself at odds with County Executive David Crowley and his administration over debt and spending that could contribute to future budget deficits.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

CBS 58: 'Enough is enough:' Milwaukee USPS Workers Hold Rally Sunday for Claims of Hostile Work Environments, Wage Thefts

Nov-05-2023

A hostile work environment, wage thefts, and unfair disciplinary actions are just some of the working conditions that Milwaukee USPS workers claimed on Sunday they've faced for years.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: Parks Replaces Tippecanoe Park Playground

Nov-04-2023

Milwaukee County Parks recently finished replacing the playground at Tippecanoe Park on the far south side of the city of Milwaukee.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Wisconsin Examiner: Bills Introduced to Improve Conditions in Jails and Prisons

Nov-03-2023

In Wisconsin’s Capitol, a package of 17 bills aimed at improving conditions in the state’s incarceration facilities was introduced Thursday. Covering issues from hygiene to oversight and transparency, the proposals were crafted following recommendations from stakeholders including formerly incarcerated people and their families.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

JS Online: 'Right Now We're Failing': Lawmakers Propose Prison Bills in Hopes of Addressing Lockdowns, Deaths

Nov-02-2023

Democratic lawmakers are taking aim at Wisconsin's beleaguered prison system with a package of bills meant to improve conditions for the thousands of people incarcerated across the state.

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  • Board of Supervisors
Year
  • 2023

Urban Milwaukee: What’s The Future of The Charles Allis Art Museum?

Nov-02-2023

The Charles Allis Art Museum has long been owned and maintained by Milwaukee County, but lately the cost to maintain the early 20th century has proven more than policymakers can bear.

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  • Board of Supervisors
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  • 2023

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