Home sweet home … almost
Angie Cummings, the woman I met last fall who suffers from multiple-chemical sensitivity, moved into her “healthy house” in Sussex on Feb. 8. Her symptoms, she said, have been rapidly disappearing....
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Stripping the strip clubs
Jon Ferraro Milwaukee is in good company with other municipalities struggling with strip clubs. The city is marketing vacant commercial space at 1118 N. Fourth St., and a strip club owner Jon Ferraro...
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You never forget your first (tweet)
If my laptop is on, Twitter is open. I could be working on anything. I could walk away from my computer for hours. I could forget to load new tweets all afternoon, letting hundreds stack up in a...
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Finding the foreclosures
Every aldermanic district in the city of Milwaukee has city-owned foreclosures, except for Alderman Joe Dudzik’s. Dudzik’s share of the city, the 11th district, juts into Greenfield and West Allis....
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‘Inflatable toys’ no laughing matter
(Photo submitted into court documents by Local 330 of the Construction and General Laborers’ Union) A giant inflatable rat is no laughing matter. A federal lawsuit filed Friday involves an inflatable...
View ArticleOh to be young (and in real estate)
The average Wisconsin Realtor is getting older, but some say now is the time for young professionals to enter the industry. Less than 4 percent of the Wisconsin Association of Realtors’ roughly 12,000...
View ArticleRealtors worry college debt will hamper homebuying
Mike Ruzika, president of Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors, said his members are keeping a close eye on rising student loan debt. That debt is one of the main barriers young people now face...
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City attorneys could suffer from separation anxiety
(File photo by Kevin Harnack) Before Milwaukee City Hall’s failing foundation added another wrinkle to the exile of the Office of the City Attorney, some aldermen were pushing for the former law...
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Jury gets its instructions in contractor theft trial
Homer Key and Freida Webb. Milwaukee contractor Homer Key faces four felony charges in a trial that began Tuesday and is expected to last through May 14. He is accused of colluding with Freida Webb, a...
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By the numbers: Northwestern Mutual deconstruction
A tower crane stands above the gutted fourth floor of a Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. building during a deconstruction project Friday in Milwaukee. (Staff photo by Kevin Harnack) Rogers,...
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