As part of the President’s Speaker Series, Council President Willie Hines Jr has invited Senator Russ Feingold to address the Common Council on September 2nd. There is a reception before the meeting at 8:30 a.m., followed by the meeting at 9:00 a.m. The meeting and reception are both open to the public.

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What’s new at Milwaukee City Hall? JP Cullen & Sons, the company responsible for most of the work in the restoration project, has proposed to the city a series of changes designed at saving the city time and money [...]

Whitney Gould took an early retirement buyout from Journal Communications a little over a month ago.  Her send off column was titled "Retiring, not tiring of quality design." Ever since moving to Milwaukee three years ago I’ve enjoyed her reporting on issues involving building design.
My views began to disagree with hers when she started to [...]

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Mike Nichols has an article in the Journal Sentinel lambasting politicians for their failings in properly estimating the cost of projects. Nichols gives me the feeling that he’s upset at Mayor Barrett for the expense of the City Hall and the coming need for a lift of [...]

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Bad news, while Milwaukee City Hall will certainly look good on the outside in due time, it’s going to be a little bit shorter because the building is sinking. In the [...]