Government & Politics

The Milwaukee Common Council this week voted to reject a $9.7 million federal grant to pay for 30 additional police officers, covering all costs related to the officers for three years but requiring the city to keep the positions for a four year. The following is a statement issued by Ald. Robert Bauman, following the council vote to reject the funds.

Editor's note: The Milwaukee Common Council this week voted to reject a $9.7 million federal grant to pay for...

The state building commission released funding this week totaling $170 million for two major projects on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus.

An emergency department physician at Aurora Sinai Medical Center was the first Advocate Aurora Health employee to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.

Wisconsin received its first allocation of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today.

Milwaukee County officials say they have formally received a $40.9 million federal grant that will allow construction to start this spring on the roughly $55 million bus rapid-transit project.

Milwaukee County and Milwaukee’s four largest health systems plan to develop a mental health emergency center on the city’s near north side.

Nearly 800 financial institutions dispersed 89,615 Paycheck Protection Program loans to Wisconsin businesses for a combined total of approximately $9.9 billion, according to U.S. Small Business Administration data made public earlier this month.

Tony Snell, volunteer and staffing coordinator at VISIT Milwaukee, has been named chair of the City of Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission. 

Wisconsin is expected to receive nearly 50,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks, pending its authorization by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which is expected as early as this week.