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Ald. Donovan Urges Study of Government Consolidation
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Ald. Bob Donovan sent out a press release and a proposed ordinance expressing a desire to study efforts to consolidate or merge City of Milwaukee services with Milwaukee County and Milwaukee Public School services.
It's a great idea and definitely worth looking in to, but why stop there? Milwaukee really ought to make an effort to study consolidation with surrounding municipalities as well.
Arsons and deeper problems need to be dealt with apart from political turf wars and budget battles
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Where's the plan to stop losses, stabilize, and rebuild?
Four people escaped this Monday morning out windows from a blaze at a rear, alley-side house on the 2500 block of N. Bremen between Bremen and Weil. One of the occupants suffered second- and third-degree burns.
This fire occurred yards away from the site of another fire at 900 E. Wright on September 30, 2009 that also displaced multiple tenants and was determined to be an arson. September's fire, like this Monday's, clearly started outside the house and spread rapidly, suggesting it may have been started on purpose with an accelerant. (See video footage.)
Really localized advertising in your digital village
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Who does Riverwestneighborhood.org reach? How many people? What's a banner ad worth on a local website, especially this one, especially in light of it not being a content-heavy site? A lot of material here is aggregated from another source and links lead somewhere else, not necessary to sites connected with this one.
Here's a recent answer to these questions:
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