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Debuting July 23 at the corner of 11th and Milwaukee Avenues, the the South Milwaukee Downtown Market will replace the South Milwaukee Green Market, which folded after its organizer had serious health problems: The market debuts Thursday, July 23, at the corner of 11th and Milwaukee avenues in South Milwaukee’s city center. It is [...] There’s lots of bad news for school districts in the Milwaukee area, as nearly two dozen school districts in the Milwaukee area expect to see their general state aid drop by more than 10% for the next school year. The decrease in state is likely to results in some very difficult decisions for school [...] I’ve previously written about the plight of the residents of the Lake Bluff Apartment complex in South Milwaukee, who face the razing of their homes at the hands of the City of South Milwaukee. At issue is the position by the city that the Lake Bluff Apartments were built illegally and in violation of zoning [...] After drinking at least 10 beers at a golf course on state Highway 167 and being left behind by the relatives who brought him there, a South Milwaukee man decided to drive himself the nearly 40 miles back to his home – in a golf cart. The man was arrested Saturday, and upon submitting to [...] In a press release issued yesterday, State Rep. Mark Honadel of South Milwaukee indicated he wants to amend the state budget to restore the Learnfare program. In justifying the amendment, here’s what Rep. Honadel said: I believe the Learnfare program should be restored from the elimination made by Governor Doyle and Joint Finance because the [...] It was reported earlier this week that the South Milwaukee Common Council was going to consider a measure to change South Milwaukee’s existing sex offender ordinance so that offenders would be allowed to accompany their own children to school and to school functions. The ordinance change was requested by the South Milwaukee School District, which [...] As reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee and Legal Action of Wisconsin have asked a federal agency to investigate the city of South Milwaukee regarding its actions toward Lake Bluff Apartments, a 56-unit complex that houses mostly minority and disabled residents. In a [...] As has been reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and SouthMilwaukeeNOW, South Milwaukee Fire Chief Jay Behling has been suspended for 90 days without pay as a penalty for using a racial slur multiple times on the job in front of subordinates. According to a poll on the front page of SouthMilwaukeeNOW, 36% of those [...] In one of his recent blog entries, Randy Hollenbeck made a great point about the City of Cudahy’s municipal website: The City’s website http://www.ci.cudahy.wi.us/. I like to think of it as “The People’s Website.” If you look at it, it meets the basic needs of a city website created in the late 1990’s. As [...] The results are in, and it’s been a good night. In the two statewide races, Justice Shirley Abrahamson prevailed over Judge Randy Koschnick for a seat on the State Supreme Court, and Tony Evers prevailed over Rose Fernandez and will be the state’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction. Closer to home, Michael Mathias and Janet [...] |
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