Milwaukee Public Works Commissioner Ghassan Korban will retire at the end of August after three decades in city government, officials announced on Wednesday.

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American Sewer Services has fired another of its employees for bringing a concealed gun to a public-works job site in Milwaukee.

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American Sewer Services has signed an agreement with Milwaukee officials that effectively removes the contractor from two public-works jobs in the city.

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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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The owner of a cooler decorated with a Ku Klux Klan logo and Confederate flag spotted recently on a public job site in Milwaukee has been fired by his employer. Officials in the city’s Department of Public Works were made aware ...

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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 has chosen a construction manager/general contractor to build a $124 million downtown streetcar and both parties are negotiating a final agreement.

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Milwaukee has received more interest than expected from contractors vying to serve as construction manager for the city's downtown streetcar project.

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The city of Milwaukee is applying for a $20 million federal grant to extend a planned streetcar north to the new Milwaukee Bucks arena.

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Contractors may be able to expect even more work on Milwaukee’s bridges and streets in the near future, if the preliminary capital-budget requests made by individual departments are any sign.

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