After seeing the number of condemned properties increase in the city last year, Milwaukee officials voted on Tuesday to recommend postponement for a city policy requiring contractors to deconstruct rather than demolish historic houses.

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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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Minority-owned contractors working in Milwaukee will be able to tap a new reservoir of money following the city's decision last week to set up a new revolving-loan fund.

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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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Responding to recent scandals at public-job sites, Milwaukee aldermen signed off Tuesday on a series of policies that could eventually change the way contractors do business with the city.

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The Milwaukee Common Council has overridden mayoral vetoes that would have changed how the city pays for a so-called disparity study meant to justify policies giving minority- and women-owned companies a leg up when bidding on public work. The city’s 2018 budget plan would ...

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Four years after being forced by a lawsuit to abandon goals meant to direct public works contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses, local officials took a step toward re-establishing the program. Deliberating on Friday on the city’s 2018 budget plan, ...

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A debate over something as seemingly simple as window replacement revealed different attitudes toward historic preservation at a Milwaukee Common Council meeting on Tuesday. In a 8-6 vote, Common Council members decided that the owner of a duplex on the ...

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Milwaukee officials moved forward with an ordinance change Thursday that would further restrict what hours contractors could log in trying to meet their resident-hiring goals.

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A bit of compromise was needed Friday before city leaders could agree to using Milwaukee’s 2017 budget to partly pay for a disparity study, which could result in contract set-asides for minority- and women-owned businesses.

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