Laying out his plans for the 2022 city budget, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett called for completing the years-long city hall renovation project while also reducing total spending on capital projects slightly in 2022. 

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Several groups opposed to a $1.1 billion plan to add lanes to a stretch of Interstate 94 west of downtown Milwaukee released a report Tuesday urging the state to spend more on transit and rebuild the roadway instead of widening it.

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Sitting in his North Side Milwaukee rental house, Nazir Al-Mujaahid discussed his son Shu’aib’s challenges while the quiet 9-year-old lingered in another room. Shu’aib excels at sports, Al-Mujaahid said, but his speaking skills developed late, and he lags behind his 6-year-old brother in reading.

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett discussed plans this week to spend about $30 million on housing programs and another $13.8 million on workforce training as part of nearly $400 million the city is to receive in federal COVID-19 aid.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan visited Milwaukee on Tuesday to tout a federal infrastructure plan that he said could help the city replace $800 million worth of lead pipes.

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State lawmakers advanced a legislative remedy on Wednesday meant to allow the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to build a nearly $100 million storehouse for polluted sediment pulled up during a planned clean-up of Milwaukee estuaries.

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Designs for a 32-story, $140 million tower on a prominent site in Milwaukee's Third Ward won a key review board's approval Wednesday.

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A developer on Wednesday laid out its plans to build a 32-story, $140 million tower at a prominent site near the entrance to Milwaukee's Third Ward.

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Wisconsin municipalities are due to receive about $20 billion in federal aid in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a sum that's more than twice the amount of federal aid cities and counties got following the 2008 Great Recession.

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The Wisconsin Center District is seeking subcontractors to work on the organization's $420 million build-out of the expo center in downtown Milwaukee.

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