Published April 30, 2013
Living in the City of Milwaukee has provided a rollercoaster ride of assessments since I bought my house a decade ago. You've likely experienced the same. On Saturday, we got our new assessment and found it had dropped another 8 percent and our home is now assessed at less than we paid 10 years ago. That's depressing.
Published April 11, 2013
Time and time again, whenever some city official wants to sound the alarm why residency rules are important to sustain the economical and social life of the city, someone brings up Detroit.
Published Feb. 19, 2013
From no less a source than the governor of Wisconsin, our fair city has been deemed less than special in the pantheon of great American cities, in the Midwest or anywhere. To use Gov. Scott Walker's exact words: "If you want to keep people in the city, you should have a great city."
One of the provisions of Governor Walker's Budget Bill is a ban on teacher residency requirements by Wisconsin School Boards. Milwaukee is the only school district in the state to have such a requirement, which is embedded in the 4-year contract between MPS and MTEA....
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