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• Common Council votes to strengthen response to threat of lead exposure

  10-12-2017 23:19
  A resolution passed by the Common Council unanimously Tuesday will change the recommendations of the Milwaukee Health Department as it relates to lead exposure and safety. The resolution beefs up existing recommendations regarding who is at risk for lead exposure and how early and often children should be tested.
  
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• Wisconsin man fleeing police crashed while checking phone

  10-12-2017 18:58
  Milwaukee prosecutors say a man who led police on a high-speed chased told arresting officers he crashed his minivan because he became distracted checking his cellphone for directions. The Milwaukee District Attorney's Office said in a criminal complaint released Friday that 20-year-old Logan Michael Brandenburg made the comment unsolicited while he was being transported from a hospital to the county jail.
  
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• SHARP Literacy Launches Campaign Fundraiser

  10-12-2017 14:23
  This past Monday, as a warm front settled across Lake Michigan, SHARP Literacy launched its first public campaign which aims to fundraise so they can bring their program to other urban schools in southeastern Milwaukee. The announcement made by SHARP Literacy CEO Lynda Kohler and Discovery World CEO Joel Brennan, took place at Discovery World in hopes to raise $124,800.
  
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• Time to Let Go of the Past American School System

  10-12-2017 09:53
  Out with the old and in with the new. Like with every generation, each one feels their generation has lived the best life, and it's hard for them to look towards the future and appreciate the present because of the nostalgia of the past.
  
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• Today only! Take 30 percent off orders over $30

  10-12-2017 06:00 via mlbshop.com
  It's a special friends and family savings event at the Brewers Shop, where if you spend more than $30 you can take 30 percent off your order. Use the code BIGDEAL and save until 10:59 p.m. CT.
  
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• Monday only! Take 30% off orders over $30

  10-12-2017 06:00 via mlbshop.com
  It's a special friends and family savings event at the Brewers Shop, where if you spend more than $30 you can take 30 percent off your order. Use the code BIGDEAL and save until 10:59 p.m. CT.
  
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• Final day! 25% off orders over $30 in Shop

  10-12-2017 06:00 via mlbshop.com
  The holidays are right around the corner. Take 25 percent off orders over $30 in the Brewers Shop. Use the code BULLPEN and save big until tonight at 10:59 CT.
  
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• Extra innings! Take 30% off orders over $30

  10-12-2017 06:00 via mlbshop.com
  It's a special friends and family savings event at the Brewers Shop, where if you spend more than $30 you can take 30 percent off your order. Use the code BIGDEAL and save until 10:59 p.m. CT Tuesday.
  
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• High Life living: "The Champagne of Beers" is now in champagne-sized bottles

  10-12-2017 05:31
  Do you want to truly live the High Life this holiday season? Then run don't walk to the store to pick up new, limited-release, champagne-sized bottles of Miller High Life, which just hit retail shelves here and aren't expected to last long. Be one of the lucky few to celebrate New Year's Eve, Brew City-style, by popping open "The Champagne of Beers" in its 750ml, gold foil-wrapped, special-edition collector's bottle.
  
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• Stearns carries 'open mind' as Meetings begin

  10-12-2017 02:00 via mlb.mlb.com
  Should the Brewers remain on the rebuilding road or is it time to go for it? As baseball executives prepare for the official start of the Winter Meetings on Monday, Milwaukee GM David Stearns would not publicly commit to one path or the other.
  
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• Controversial photo of contractors with guns stirs reaction along racial lines

  10-12-2017 01:04
  While several Milwaukee Common Council members said they are determined to prohibit city contractors from carrying weapons on the job, public officials mirrored the social media reaction to an online photo of three contractors carrying guns posted over the weekend. Some Common Council members find it offensive that three men, who presumably do not live in the North Side neighborhood where they were working, would feel so unsafe that they would arm themselves and flaunt their weapons.
  
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