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Burying ‘The 831’ of Milwaukee County – again
More than a century after being buried, and decade after being exhumed, a group of Milwaukee County residents are still awaiting a final resting place
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USS Beloit to be commissioned in Milwaukee Saturday
The ship is the fifteenth to be delivered to the Navy by the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette.
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Milwaukee, Madison first responders using whole blood in trauma response
Milwaukee County’s ambulance system and UW Health’s Med Flight are adding whole blood transfusions as part of their pre-hospital care.Â
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Marquette non-tenure-track faculty want union bargaining rights
Non-tenure-track faculty at Marquette University say a new promotion structure and pay raises are needed. But the school is claiming a religious exemption.
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Ascension to close small hospital, consolidate, close other services across southeast Wisconsin
The Saint Louis-based hospital system will close its “micro-hospital,” which opened in Waukesha at the start of 2021.Â
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Another data center proposed in southeast Wisconsin
The site is about 6 miles south of a $3.3 billion Microsoft data center campus under construction in Mount Pleasant.
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Wisconsin’s shared revenue law creates recruitment challenge for Milwaukee police, fire departments
A bipartisan law overhauling local government funding has placed pressure on the city of Milwaukee to hire more police officers and firefighters in the coming years. That comes at a time when interest in the profession is dwindling.
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Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers
Microsoft will use generators that rely on diesel or renewable fuel to provide backup power at its data centers as part of the company’s $3.3 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant.
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Milwaukee County outreach team going door-to-door to hand out Narcan in high overdose areas
The program is funded through money the county received from the settlement of a multistate lawsuit against four pharmaceutical companies.
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Wisconsin food pantries report increasing demand as families grapple with high costs
From the rural Northwoods to the more affluent Waukesha area, food banks across the state say more families are in need of support.
