Graham Kilmer

Milwaukee, Racine

Reporter at Urban Milwaukee

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Articles

Milwaukee Has Removed 10,000 Lead Laterals

4 days ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

Mayor Cavalier Johnson was on hand Tuesday as construction crews replaced the city’s 10,000th lead lateral. The replacement represented a “milestone” as the city works to remove every lead service line in Milwaukee before a 2037 deadline set by the federal government. “It’s a step towards our greater goal, which is ensuring that no child in Milwaukee is at risk of lead exposure through drinking water,” Johnson said. The city still has approximately 65,000 lead pipes to go.
MKE County: Supervisors Push Sustainable Building Designs

4 days ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

The Milwaukee County Board is moving to approve new sustainable design standards for county buildings. The new standards follow legislation passed in April that laid out the county’s strategic plan for achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The new sustainable design standards were one of the strategies included in the plan.
Transportation: How Should MCTS Spend $35,000?

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors has spent a considerable amount of time deliberating over the proper use of just $35,000. The funding comes from the 2025 budget. And the reason deliberations are ongoing is because the budgeted use for the funds is no longer being pursued: Uber rides for bus drivers.
MKE County: Wehr Nature Center Fund Drive Will Pay for Changes

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

Last year, Wehr Nature Center embarked on an ambitious five-year plan to upgrade the park, and it’s making good progress. Thanks to fundraising by the Friends of Wehr Nature Center, the center already has approximately 30% of the fundraising it needs for its five year plan, and has entered planning and design for three projects.
MKE County: County Replaces Its Oldest Playground

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

The ribbon cutting Thursday at Mitchell Airport Park was a long time coming. Not only because Milwaukee County Parks finally replaced the oldest playground in the parks system (built in 1995), but because the project actually began five years ago. Then-supervisor Jason Haas secured $291,000 in funding for the playground in 2020. But the project was stalled by COVID-19, then by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations governing land use in the aviation zone around the airport.
MKE County: County Wants To Boost Small Business, Commercial Corridors

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

Milwaukee County is working on a program to boost small business development . The county’s Economic Development Division is putting together a program designed to provide support for both local small-businesses and municipalities looking to spur development in commercial corridors. It would provide small businesses with grants up to $10,000 and provide technical economic development assistance to local municipalities.
MKE County: New Private Operator Sought for Historic Trimborn Farm

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

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ICE Makes Another Courthouse Arrest

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have reportedly arrested another immigrant at the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Reached for confirmation, Chief Judge Carl Ashley told Urban Milwaukee, “I have been informed that an ICE arrest took place this morning, May 7th in the Courthouse Complex.”James Burnett, chief of staff to Sheriff Denita Ball, confirmed that he was made aware earlier today of immigration agents in the courthouse.
MKE County: The Final Voyage of Deep Thought

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

The boat is gone. Finally. After more than six months on Milwaukee’s shoreline, the boat called Deep Thought, and known locally as the S.S. Minnow, has been hoisted off the beach. After several failed attempts to remove the boat by a private salvager, Milwaukee County officials decided in recent weeks to get involved. Sup. Sheldon Wasserman who represents the area on the county board, started calling for the county to remove the boat.
Wisconsin Sues RFK Jr. Over HHS Funding Cuts

1 week ago | urbanmilwaukee.com | Graham Kilmer

Wisconsin has joined another lawsuit against President Donald Trump‘s administration, this time opposing funding cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that target spending previously approved by the U.S. Congress. Wisconsin joined nearly two dozen other states suing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials for sweeping budget cuts enacted in March.