PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Milwaukee County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Milwaukee County, pursuant to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development guidelines, will be holding a public hearing to hear oral presentations from all potential grant Sub-recipients who have timely submitted their grant proposals and are eligible grant [...]

Wisconsin’s low-income citizens are in deep financial stress. Under the current budget, Gov. Scott Walker plans to cut $554 million to Wisconsin’s BadgerCare and Medicaid programs over the next two years. That’s $554 million from health services offered to low-income families, children, adults, seniors and individuals with disabilities. $554 million from detrimental programs designed to [...]

The County of Milwaukee is inviting citizen comments on the Proposed Community Development Block Grant funding for 2012. Milwaukee County will be receiving 2012 federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding totaling approximately $1, 500,000. The CDBG funding is to be shared between Milwaukee County and 16 participating municipalities. The municipal share will be allocated [...]

Public Hearing The Wisconsin Department of Transportation invites you to attend a public hearing on March 22 or 23, 2011. The information gathered and shared will be the same on each night, so feel free to stop by on whichever night is more convenient for you. The hearing will be held on March 22 from [...]

Victims of the July 22 rainstorm received some encouraging news Monday during a public hearing held at the Quality of Life Center at Christ the King Church. Hundreds of surveys would be sent off this week as part of an appeal of a FEMA decision to provide emergency funds to local government, but not residents [...]

The County of Milwaukee is inviting citizen comments on the Proposed Community Development Block Grant funding for 2011. Milwaukee County will be receiving 2011 federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding totaling approximately $1, 800,000. The CDBG funding is to be shared between Milwaukee County and 16 participating municipalities. The municipal share will be allocated [...]

On March 19th the State Senate Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Biotechnology, and Financial Institutions held a public hearing in West Allis on payday loans. During the five hour plus hearing, which the Milwaukee Courier attended, testimony was provided by interested parties, including many constituents of select committee members. By all accounts, it appeared [...]

Wisconsin is the only state in the United States that does not have any regulation dealing with payday lending. A half-dozen bills to regulate the payday loan industry are being considered in Madison but the residents most impacted by those businesses have rarely been heard from in those discussions. The Social Development Commission (SDC) wants [...]

by Lynda Jones At the urging of Milwaukee legislators, most notably State Representative Annette Polly Williams who has been an advocate for Milwaukee Public Schools for a long time, senators came to Milwaukee and held a daylong state Senate hearing this week regarding the governance of MPS. After months of debates, demonstrations, divided political positions [...]