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Water and Knapp
It’s almost an empty wasteland. It can’t get worse, but how much can it improve?
Read the full story by Rachel Quednau...
Journal Sentinel Jumps on Sinking Ship
Prospectus shows all 13 newspapers the new Journal company absorbs are losing money.
Read the full story by Bruce Murphy...
Rotary Club’s Impact on the City
The club, a Mandi finalist, has created a food program for the poor and the Arboretum along Milwaukee River.
Read the full story by Matthew Wisla, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service...
The First 100 Years of City Homes
From the 1840s until World War II, Milwaukee built an interesting variety of homes, many still standing.
Read the full story by Christopher Hillard...
Walker’s Christmas Tree Budget
The budget has a flock of non-financial items — 58 in all — that will quietly change state polices.
Read the full story by Bill Lueders...
It’s probably helping his presidential run, but also raising questions about Walker as a person.
He’s embraced a low-taxes approach used by other states, which has been a failure.
Crunching the numbers: How has Wisconsin’s economy fared in his first four years?
His proposed budget eliminates all state funding for Transportation Alternatives Program.
Life is short and bicycling provides adventures close to home. Are you missing out?
The mayor, business leaders and pols toasted the streetcar in Cudahy's Irish Pub, with Michael Cudahy on hand.
The nearly completed, $80 million, five-floor interdisciplinary center should raise university's national research profile.
The 36-foot-high, $200,000 work was installed by Blue Cross in 1978; new owner of property won't reply to calls, artist has no idea what happened to sculpture.
Development proposed at neighborhood meeting would include 5 stories, 3,000 square feet of first floor retail and 72 apartments on 4 floors above this.
Dohmen building’s redesign is a model for how to add value and grace while updating a 1960s creation.
The Bay View “art stop” is neither art nor a good bus stop. For one-tenth the price, the city could have done far better.
"In five years, I’d like to think that I wouldn’t have to convince people how great this city is – it will just be undeniable."
"Five years from now, Milwaukee will have a state of the art facility for the Milwaukee Bucks just north of the current Bradley Center."
Milwaukee could learn from Auckland, which created a separate, non-profit authority to run the streetcar system.
Proposed resolution would allow county to sell O’Donnell Park for redevelopment by any private developer.
The club, a Mandi finalist, has created a food program for the poor and the Arboretum along Milwaukee River.
Community organizing group works with residents, high-risk youth and police to combat crime.
Prospectus shows all 13 newspapers the new Journal company absorbs are losing money.
Walker and Vos love the idea. So what will it cost and what will it accomplish?
After years of debate, streetcar will finally move forward. Final engineering will begin immediately, and construction by the end of the year.
Eleven out of 15 aldermanic districts, and 76 percent of all respondents support the proposed streetcar starter system.
One of the great East Side homes, its history includes a remarkable cast of characters, almost a mini-history of Milwaukee elites.
The mayor, business leaders and pols toasted the streetcar in Cudahy's Irish Pub, with Michael Cudahy on hand.
The nearly completed, $80 million, five-floor interdisciplinary center should raise university's national research profile.
New complex with 168 apartments will add density to an area that's booming with development.
Prospectus shows all 13 newspapers the new Journal company absorbs are losing money.
He’s embraced a low-taxes approach used by other states, which has been a failure.
"In five years, I’d like to think that I wouldn’t have to convince people how great this city is – it will just be undeniable."
City transitional jobs program for hard-core unemployed still has half of its positions unfilled.
The budget has a flock of non-financial items -- 58 in all -- that will quietly change state polices.
Walker and Vos love the idea. So what will it cost and what will it accomplish?
He’s embraced a low-taxes approach used by other states, which has been a failure.
Revolving door between governing and lobbying wide open, especially for Republicans.
Call it a bonus round: an assemblage of photos taken in my tour of many great vantage points in Milwaukee.
At dusk, the 23rd floor of the Pfister Hotel tower offers beautiful views of a changing city
The third Chapman's store was built in 1885 and would remain in business nearly a century.
Chapman's, the city's first department store for upscale buyers, was the last word in elegance for Milwaukee.
