A Milwaukee County task force on Tuesday signed off on a $66 million plan to overhaul the crumbling Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, keeping its well-known domes intact and adding a host of new attractions.

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Milwaukee County officials on Tuesday will consider using a public-private partnership to overhaul the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, a plan that would preserve the park's well-known domes and add new features such as a food-truck park and a hub for research.

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When Rob Henken and his fellow researchers at the Wisconsin Policy Forum set out a few years ago to study Milwaukee city and county’s backlog of need infrastructure repairs and replacements, they knew they were likely to come up with a long to-do list. What they discovered still came as a bit of a shock.

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To break up a logjam of infrastructure repairs that could cost as much as $400 million in the next four years, Milwaukee County needs to part ways with some of the properties it owns and find a new source of revenue to pay for needed work, according to a recent report.

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The actual cost of building new county-run juvenile centers to replace Wisconsin's scandal-plagued prison in Irma is expected to far outstrip previous estimates, giving Milwaukee County officials fodder for criticism at a meeting held on Monday in Madison.

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A recent report has found Milwaukee County’s five senior centers will reach retirement age in the next three years, and that replacing them could cost about $24 million.

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A local ecology group's proposals to expand its buildings in Milwaukee's Washington Park are coming into conflict with separate plans to give the park a permanent historical designation, giving rise to a wide-ranging debate about how public land should be used.

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As Milwaukee County officials try to work their way out of a serious financial entanglement, they're considering turning to the state for money they contend is needed to make long-needed repairs at public parks, build a new justice center and meet other costly obligations.

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Federal officials have signed off on an environmental review of Milwaukee's first rapid-transit bus line, marking a milestone for the project.

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Milwaukee County would trim its spending on services by $14 million in its 2019 budget, under a proposal County Executive Chris Abele is calling a “temporary fix.”

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