After four failed attempts by the Office of the City Attorney to get money to renovate its former City Hall offices, some Milwaukee aldermen are optimistic the 2014 budget will include enough to start work on the eighth floor.

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A liquor license for a proposed gentlemen’s club will be a deciding factor in whether a lawsuit against the city of Milwaukee proceeds.

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A Republican lawmaker pushing a sweeping landlord-tenant bill would himself benefit from one of its provisions.

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Those are not busy city attorneys, pressured by deadlines and rushing around the hallways on the 8th floor of Milwaukee’s City Hall.

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Two Milwaukee aldermen celebrated National Train Day on Saturday by refuting reports from Madison that their city's streetcar project is dead.

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Behind a 10-4 Milwaukee Common Council vote Tuesday, Rocky Marcoux, commissioner for the city's Department of City Development, has been reappointed for four more years.

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Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney David Feiss found no weight to allegations raised on the floor of a July 24 Milwaukee Common Council meeting that a city official was improperly diverting money from a city account, according to a letter from Feiss to an alderman.

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A Milwaukee alderman, fed up with the lack of money going toward local roads, wants the city’s Intergovernmental Relations Division to lobby the state on behalf of city streets.

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Milwaukee’s Common Council on Tuesday voted to hold the reappointment of Rocky Marcoux as the commissioner of the Department of City Development.

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Milwaukee’s Common Council on Tuesday reversed the Historic Preservation Committee’s decision that gave Sydney Hih an interim historic designation.

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