Responding to a pair of scandals involving gun-toting contractors and a cooler bedecked with racist stickers, Milwaukee officials are considering cancelling a pair of contracts with Rubicon-based American Sewer Services.

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If Milwaukee isn't able to prevent contractors from allowing employees to carry firearms while on the job, perhaps more public construction projects should instead be performed in-house, an elected official mused on Wednesday.

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Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan on Tuesday proposed “transit-on-demand” and a premium bus service as alternatives to a downtown streetcar, but such an option would require cutting the strings attached to federal money.

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The lack of assurance that other retail development would follow Milwaukee’s offering Boston Store $1.2 million to stay downtown frustrated some aldermen Wednesday even as the Common Council approved the deal.

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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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A Milwaukee city alderman has asked the Milwaukee County executive to help kill a streetcar project by shifting nearly $53 million in federal money away from the $64.6 million proposal.

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A Milwaukee city alderman has asked the Milwaukee County executive to help kill a streetcar project by shifting $52.7 million in federal money away from the $64 million proposal.

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Milwaukee’s decision Tuesday to repeal the minority hiring requirements that had sparked a lawsuit might land the city back in court.

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It’s 11:01 a.m. Thursday. Northwestern Mutual Vice President of Communications and Corporate Affairs Kimberley Goode strides to a makeshift lectern in the white marble lobby of the company’s 100-year-old world headquarters in Milwaukee.

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The Wisconsin Public Service Commission did not rule Thursday on who would have to pay more than $50 million to move underground utility lines that lie in the path of a proposed streetcar in downtown Milwaukee.

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