Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from ...

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By Marie Rohde While there may be a valid dispute among investors in the Wauwatosa company that had been negotiating to open a Hofbrauhaus Brewery and Restaurant on the site of the former Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee, there is no ...

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By Marie Rohde The former owner of a storage yard in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley whose property was seized through eminent domain faces a Dec. 1 deadline to remove a barge that sank in the river next to his former property. ...

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Milwaukee wants to collect public input next month on the rules designed to guide the city’s sick-leave law. Milwaukee staff members finished drafting the rules, which specify what businesses must do to satisfy the broad language of the sick-leave law, ...

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