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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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 new study finds that Wisconsin's tax burden has dropped to a 30-year low.

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School referendums approved by voters in Wisconsin this year have broken records for the total amount and percentage passed.

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The Milwaukee Public Museum could be moving into Mitchell Park, sharing a site with Milwaukee County's well-known Domes structures under a plan the county board of supervisors on Thursday agreed to study.

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Wisconsin voters are being asked their permission for more than $1 billion worth of spending on buildings and other priorities, putting them in a position to approve a record amount of school-related referendum requests this November.

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Green Bay became the latest place in Wisconsin to approve a road-funding mechanism that local governments across the state are increasingly leaning on as state and federal dollars grow scarcer: the wheel tax.

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A new report says Milwaukee County will need help from the state or a private business partner to build a proposed $367 million criminal courthouse.

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