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By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter Wauwatosa and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation are racing the clock to create a development district for the $250 million Innovation Park project before Sept. 30. If the city can create the ...

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Three Milwaukee County supervisors on Thursday failed to force a public debate over whether there should be an independent investigation of the O'Donnell Park parking structure collapse.

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By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter A national builders association is accusing OSHA of hiding citation penalty and construction enforcement changes in a federal bill for the mining industry. But the Occupational Safety and Health Administration counters the ...

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By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter Milwaukee could lose to demolition hundreds of houses if damaging mold infects them as a result of flooding from the recent heavy rains. Vacant houses, of which Milwaukee has between 5,000 and ...

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By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter Two major rainstorms and thousands of basement floods have prompted a search in Milwaukee for the best ways to protect the city from more damage. Milwaukee Alderman Jim Bohl said, for instance, ...

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By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter Proposals are due Friday, July 30, for the large and underused City Campus complex in Milwaukee’s Concordia neighborhood. The county owns and operates City Campus, which it seeks to sell. The 265,000-square-foot ...

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By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter Six Republican state representatives are pressing for a hearing on new rules that would further restrict phosphorous runoff at a cost to businesses and municipalities the lawmakers say is unreasonable. But environmental ...

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By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and some county board members are trading barbs over Walker‘s decision to shift money during the past seven years from the county’s capital budget into the general ...

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By Bill Clements Special to the Daily Reporter Three Milwaukee County supervisors on Wednesday plan to call for an independent investigation into possible criminal charges involving the failure of the O’Donnell Park parking structure that resulted in the death of ...

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By Bill Clements Special to the Daily Reporter Waukesha-based Good Electric Inc.’s failed succession plan in December means Lemberg Electric Co. Inc.’s work force just grew by almost 25 percent. Gregg Eisenhardt, now former president and owner of Good, said ...

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