Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett plans to increase spending on infrastructure and lead-line replacements next year, according to the 2020 budget proposal he released on Tuesday.

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State Sen. Lena Taylor has formally started her run for mayor of Milwaukee.

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on Thursday rolled out plans to extend the city's streetcar to the Wisconsin Center District convention center and the city's lakefront in time for the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

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Milwaukee is still lacking an essential element in its plans to replace lead water pipes: cash.

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Milwaukee is moving to force the owners of the dilapidated Northridge Mall to tear down the long-abandoned shopping center, a step officials hope would lead to redevelopment.

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Milwaukee could pause its enforcement of a mandate requiring contractors to deconstruct, rather than demolish, historic homes after a assessment of the policy found that it struggled to get off the ground in 2018.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers announced Wednesday that he's chosen four prominent Milwaukee leaders, including a former campaign manager to Mayor Tom Barrett and a 30-year veteran of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department, for top-level Cabinet positions.

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The Milwaukee Common Council defeated a mayoral veto Tuesday that would have slashed cash from a city blight-removal policy often requiring the deconstruction, rather than demolition, of historic homes.

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has vetoed a budget amendment that would support a newly enacted city policy requiring the deconstruction — rather than demolition — of historic houses, saying the policy has hindered the redevelopment of blighted properties.

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Milwaukee would perform some lead water-lines replacements itself as part of a 2019 budget proposal that would put more cash toward dismantling the city’s vast network of lead-ridden infrastructure.

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