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We should care: Milwaukee neighbors clean up trash in Riverwest
Milwaukee neighbors clean up trash in Riverwest
Picking up trash is a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it. A group in Milwaukee spent their Sunday morning doing a little spring cleaning in Riverwest.
MILWAUKEE - Picking up trash is a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it. A group in Milwaukee spent their Sunday morning, March 14 doing a little spring cleaning in Riverwest.
It’s amazing to see the amount of trash you’ll find around trashcans. I came out here because I noticed that there is a lot of trash, said David Dasilva, picking up bits of rubbish that almost made it into the bin. We should care about the place we live in, and I’m just trying to do my part. I just want to help out and help the community grow and be cleaner.
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Several members of the Milwaukee Common Council ripped attorney Franklyn Gimbel on Wednesday for comments he made to WTMJ radio earlier this week. In a statement, the members accused Gimbel of being racist.
Gimbel, who is representing former Chief Alfonso Morales, called the Fire & Police Commission “outrageously dysfunctional” during a conversation Monday with WTMJ’s Gene Mueller. Gimbel also suggested the city refrain from “using Zip Codes rather than IQ’s to appoint people to the (FPC).”
In a statement, signed by twelve council members, the aldermen criticized the attorney’s remarks.
“If Mr. Gimbel thought he was concealing his meaning behind clever language, he did a poor job of it,” the council members said. “Nonetheless, let us spell it out: none of the six members of Milwaukee’s Board of Fire and Police Commissioners are white. If Mr. Gimbel meant something else when he divided people by “Zip Code” other than their race, we encourage him to share
Russell Stamper) rejected the COPS grant, a $9.7 million federal grant to support 30 additional officers for three years. The community believed that the Common Council listened to the countless voices demanding that no additional money be added to the Milwaukee Police Department, not just through the COPS grant, but overall.
Later in this same meeting where they voted “no,” Ald. Dodd made a motion to reconsider the grant, meaning it will go back to the Common Council in January.
Hundreds of voices that spoke at budget hearings over the past two years said they don’t want the COPS grant today, tomorrow or next year! The community wants something else, and it’s not more police.