A debate over something as seemingly simple as window replacement revealed different attitudes toward historic preservation at a Milwaukee Common Council meeting on Tuesday. In a 8-6 vote, Common Council members decided that the owner of a duplex on the ...

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The city of Milwaukee has identified neighborhoods struggling with violence as "promise zones" ahead of summer so that they may receive extra attention and funding.

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Milwaukee officials want to set aside nearly $20,000 to spur new innovations and business ideas for the city's 30th Street industrial corridor, but only $5,000 of that would go to actual entrepreneurs.

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A Milwaukee alderman’s frustration with the city’s development chief has prompted a proposal to tighten oversight of the Planning Division.

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A resolution to repeal portions of Milwaukee’s minority contracting ordinance has stalled while business groups and city officials debate whether eligible companies must have an address in one of four counties.

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The disparity study that was used to justify the city of Milwaukee’s race- and gender-specific contracting ordinance also was its undoing.

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The Milwaukee Common Council is not ready to officially repeal gender- and race-specific set-asides in its minority contracting program.

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Milwaukee lawns might sink to a new low.

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It took Milwaukee’s Common Council no more than 15 minutes to discuss and unanimously approve a lawsuit settlement that reverses the city’s most recent minority contracting set-asides.

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Conflicting opinions about whether Milwaukee should have contract set asides for specific minorities has left the city’s policymakers at a standstill.

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