MPS' plan to fill a budget hole
I'm Hope Karnopp, and this is the Daily Briefing newsletter by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Sign up here to get it sent to your inbox each morning. It's going to be 64 degrees and breezy today, with a slight chance of showers overnight. Tomorrow and Wednesday will feel like one last hurrah of summer, with gusty winds and temperatures reaching the 80s. It'll cool back down to the 50s by Halloween. ...
Letters: More parking tickets and higher user fees won't work. We can't afford more taxes.
The increase in issuing parking tickets while increasing revenue to the city isn’t the solution to the city’s monetary woes (“Milwaukee plans to issue more parking tickets,” Oct. 18). And increasing the five major user’s fees would fall on the back of property owners. Many property owners cannot afford any more taxes. People...
When will Wisconsin's election results be reported?
I'm Hope Karnopp and this is the Daily Briefing newsletter by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Sign up here to get it sent to your inbox each morning. Any showers and thunderstorms we got last night should clear up by early this morning. The high will be around 61 degrees today. It looks like we won't be getting any more rain in the next several days, and temperatures will be in the 60-degree range for weekend activities. ...
Vote for the WIAA Level 1 playoff Milwaukee Journal Sentinel game of the week
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Judge denies Wisconsin attorney general’s request to review Milwaukee archdiocese records
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal judge has denied Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul’s request to review the Milwaukee Archdiocese’s sealed bankruptcy records as part of his investigation into clergy sex abuse. U.S. District Judge G. Michael Halfenger denied Kaul’s request on Monday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel winner of Gerald Loeb Award for landlord-tenant coverage
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was named the winner of a prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for local reporting for coverage of landlord-tenant issues. The stories, published in 2023, included an in-depth look at landlords that are among the most prolific evictors of tenants and an investigation of Vinebrook Homes Trust, a multibillion-dollar private equity-backed...
With many people still without a home, DOT begins park-and-ride lot closures
On Monday morning, Tracy Bennett watched from Saint Adalbert Cemetery as the people she'd known for the past three months packed up their belongings at the Holt Avenue park-and-ride lot. The only word she could find to describe the scene was "heartbreaking," Bennett said. ...