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Sunday At 9 A.M.: Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett On UPFRONT


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Published Nov. 20, 2009 at 7:27 p.m.

Mike Gousha interviews Tom Barrett on UPFRONT ...

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Council sustains Barrett's veto on furloughs


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Published Nov. 20, 2009 at 2:13 p.m.

Milwaukee aldermen Friday sustained Mayor Tom Barrett's only veto of a 2010 budget item, a move that means more unpaid furlough days for police officers and lower-than-expected property taxes ...

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Milwaukee Mayor Barrett: Statement re: Common Council action sustaining his veto in the 2010 budget


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Published Nov. 20, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Contact:: ... Steve Kwaterski ... (414) 286-8504 Mayor Barrett released the following statement following Common Council action sustaining his veto in the 2010 Budget.“I am please ...

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584 pounds of medications turned in


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Published Nov. 19, 2009 at 5:57 p.m.

Residents of five Milwaukee County communities dropped off 584 pounds of unused or expired medications at their local police departments in recent months, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District officials said Thursday.The pharmaceuticals were collected this week and MMSD will pay for proper disposal.The district asks area residents not to flush medicine down a sink drain or toilet because sewage treatment plants are not designed to remove them from water and the chemicals are discharged to

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South Milwaukee OKs fair housing ordinance, freezes police and fire pay


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Published Nov. 19, 2009 at 12:03 p.m.

South Milwaukee — The city has a new fair housing ordinance and new contracts with its police officers and firefighters that essentially provide no pay raises in 2010 and 2% raises in 2011.The Common Council approved all three actions Tuesday.The ordinance creates a process for making housing discrimination complaints and a board to hear them.The city has been accused of housing discrimination in its handling of the Lake Bluff apartment complex, which houses many minority residents. The city

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Fond Du Lac investigators find new clues in 20-year-old cold case


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Published Nov. 19, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
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Investigators are refocusing their efforts on a crime nearly two decades old. Loved ones call her Barrie, but most remember her as Berit Beck. Her mother tells FOX 6 it's been about five years since investigators contacted her about her daughter's murder ...

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AG Van Hollen: Holiday season fire prevention tips


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Published Nov. 19, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

November 19, 2009 ... Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen, along with State Fire Marshal Tina R. Virgil, would like to remind Wisconsin citizens to take extra care to ...

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Walker, Barrett Insist Campaigns Won't Affect Current Jobs


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Published Nov. 18, 2009 at 11:31 p.m.

Both Scott Walker and Tom Barrett insist their campaigns will not interfere with their current jobs ...

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Barrett aide questions poll accuracy on MPS leadership


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Published Nov. 18, 2009 at 11:03 p.m.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's top aide Wednesday questioned the accuracy of a poll that showed both city and suburban opposition to mayoral control of the Milwaukee Public Schools.But senior officials at one of the poll's sponsoring organizations defended the survey, and School Board President Michael Bonds said he was surprised that opposition wasn't higher.Barrett and Gov. Jim Doyle have called on the Legislature to give the mayor the power to appoint the MPS superintendent, with final

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Barrett veto restores one furlough day for cops


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Published Nov. 18, 2009 at 5:55 p.m.

All Milwaukee police officers would take two unpaid days off next year, if the Common Council upholds a budget veto issued Wednesday by Mayor Tom Barrett.Casting his only line-item veto of the 2010 city budget, Barrett struck language that would have reduced the number of unpaid furlough days to one for all Milwaukee Police Department employees, both sworn officers and civilians. He called for the council to restore a provision recommended by its Finance & Personnel Committee, which would set

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