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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,...

After the first two days of Milwaukee County’s recount of the 2020 presidential election were bogged down by several lengthy objections, Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said the recount is back on schedule. By noon on Wednesday, November 25 workers had processed approximately 413,000 out of 460,000 ballots, including all 169,000 absentee ballots from the City of Milwaukee, and most of Milwaukee’s ballots that were cast in-person at individual polling locations on Election Day. “We are back on track and things are running very smoothly,” said Christenson. “I am incredibly appreciative of hard work of the local clerks, their...