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Mayor Tom Barrett joined the City of Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission, Alderwoman JoCasta Zamarripa, and representatives from the Human Rights Campaign, Fair Wisconsin, FORGE and the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center on December 9 to announce that the City of Milwaukee received yet another perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipality Equality Index. Only 94 out of a total of 506 cities rated received perfect scores. The Human Rights Campaign is the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer civil rights organization. The national 2020 Municipal Equality Index (MEI) report is the only nationwide assessment of...

Imagine MKE announced on December 4 that it was accepting applications for arts and organizations to apply for a relief grant program funded by a Milwaukee County CARES Act allocation. The $700,000 grant program aims to assist the county’s arts and culture organizations that have been impacted by COVID-19, and would otherwise be forced to make undesirable decisions for financial reasons. Organizations can apply through Friday, December 11, 11:59 pm. Eligible arts and cultural organizations can receive a maximum grant of $125,000, and total relief received from all COVID-19 CARES Act programs cannot exceed total losses due to COVID-19....

The Pabst Brewing Company announced on December 1 that the Captain Pabst Pilot House, located in Milwaukee’s Brewery District, will close permanently in December. The news closes another chapter of the longstanding Pabst history with the brew city. Pabst returned its brewing to the city in 2017 after a two decade absence. The beer maker originally closed its Milwaukee operations in 1996, after a decline in sales and a consolidation in the brewing industry. The brand relaunch in Milwaukee as a microbrewery was celebrated due to the Pabst legacy, but its business was lackluster and the pandemic ultimately ended...

The Common Council voted on November 24 to adopt legislation to move forward with using remaining federal CARES Act funding for a small business start-up fund, education assistance to parents of K-12 students, and help to provide Internet access and tablets to senior citizens. The amended legislation, Council file #200978, sponsored by Alderwoman Chantia Lewis aims to address certain problems that people are currently facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. “So many people are now faced with lost jobs, children at home because schools and programs are all virtual, poor Internet connectivity and access, and other life-altering problems from COVID-19,...