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		<title>Milwaukee County Board to consider elected-officials&#8217; pension changes</title>
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Source: Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors
Milwaukee County Supervisors Joe Sanfelippo, Joseph Rice, Mark Borkowski, Paul Cesarz and Jim “Luigi” Schmitt released the following joint statement regarding the pension reform plan for elected Milwaukee County officials that was approved by a key County Board Committee this week.
“Last September, the county’s financial forecasting workgroup warned that, without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3587</link>
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		<title>Spring Gallery Night &amp; Day April 16 and 17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MADA GALLERIES
Presented by the East Town and Historic Third Ward associations, the 22-year-old Gallery Night and Day is the premier art event in Milwaukee for both the experienced art connoisseur and most beginning admirer. An evening of gallery hopping and art viewing begins Friday, April 16 and continues during the day on Saturday, April 17. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3581</link>
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		<title>UWM to host gubernatorial-candidate fireside chats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: UWM
The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Panther Advocates will host gubernatorial candidates Tom Barrett, Mark Neumann and Scott Walker as they discuss their campaign platforms and plans for Wisconsin. These events are free and open to the public.
 Three individual “Fireside Chats” will feature a presentation by the scheduled gubernatorial candidate and a question-and-answer session moderated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3577</link>
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		<title>Tell Google to broadband Milwaukee!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Mayor&#8217;s Office
The City of Milwaukee wants Google to bring its super-fast fiber optic network test project here, and Mayor Tom Barrett and Common Council President Willie L. Hines, Jr. are joining forces in seeking residents’ help with the bid.

Google has said it plans to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3574</link>
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		<title>Bay View High School to host first Fluid Power Challenge March 19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: MPS
The event will take place from 9am-3pm at Bay View High School, 2751 South Lenox Street, in Mary Morris Hall room 230. An awards ceremony will take place from 3-3:30 p.m.
The community is welcome to attend.
Local companies and partners including MATC, P&#38;H, Discovery World, Engineers and Scientists of Milwaukee and Time Warner Cable, will assist students. The partners are volunteering to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3572</link>
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		<title>Summerfest officials announce handful of headliners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summerfest officials have announced several headlining acts that will perform at this year&#8217;s music festival, which runs June 24 through July 4 along Milwaukee&#8217;s lakefront.

Sheryl Crow, June 24
Public Enemy, June 25
Colbie Caillat, June 24
311, June 25
Jeff Beck, June 25
Thievery Corporation, June 26
Phil Vassar, June 26
Chevelle, June 30
The Hold Steady, July 1
Puddle of Mudd, June 30

Specific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3544</link>
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		<title>Photos: Gokey performs, meets fans at Turner Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Milwaukee-native singer Danny Gokey celebrated the release of his new album with a sold-out performance at the historic Turner Hall Ballroom Saturday, March 6.
Gokey&#8217;s debut album, &#8220;My Best Days&#8221; (19 Recordings/RCA Nashville), was released March 2.
Gokey, who came in third place as a contestant on the eight season of Fox&#8217;s reality show &#8220;American Idol,&#8221; signed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3526</link>
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		<title>Gokey to perform in Milwaukee Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Milwaukee-native singer Danny Gokey will celebrate the release of his new album with a performance at the historic Turner Hall Ballroom Saturday, March 6.
Gokey&#8217;s debut album, &#8220;My Best Days&#8221; (19 Recordings/RCA Nashville), was released Tuesday.
Tickets to the show will be available at the door starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The cost is $12 , which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3506</link>
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		<title>Cudahy apartment building to be sold, rehabilitated with federal grant money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A subsidized housing apartment building on Packard Avenue that is in foreclosure will be sold and rehabilitated, the City of Cudahy announced Tuesday.
Cudahy was awarded a $350,000 federal grant through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program to acquire and restore Packard Hall, 4932 South Packard Avenue, at the intersection of Packard and Somers Avenues.
The grant comes after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3514</link>
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		<title>Police investigating sexual assault of UWM student</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 21-year-old UW-Milwaukee student was sexually assaulted in her apartment near campus early Friday morning.
UWM Police said the student had just returned to her apartment in the 3000 block of N. Maryland around 2:30 a.m. Feb. 26, when she heard a knock on the door and opened the door thinking it was her roommate.
Police said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3510</link>
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		<title>Local firefighters travel to Haiti following quake</title>
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Milwaukee firefighters Craig Parello and Jeff Lang went to Haiti to help with disaster recovery efforts following the earthquake. They are pictured by a collapsed water tank on top of a building in Port au Prince. ~courtesy Craig Parello
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		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3485</link>
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		<title>Sign displayed in protest of fire station &#8216;brownouts&#8217;</title>
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A neighbor erected this sign in February across the street from the Kinnickinnic Avenue fire station to protest the city&#8217;s fire station &#8220;brownouts.&#8221; ~photo Michael Timm
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		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3483</link>
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		<title>Becky&#8217;s celebrates 20 years in Bay View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In December 1989, after eight years teaching junior high at St. Veronica, Becky Peelen was ready for a change. Not that she didn&#8217;t love teaching, but she realized life was short and, &#8220;I just decided I&#8217;d rather do something I love.&#8221;
That was sewing, which she&#8217;d already been doing for people out of her home.
She opened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3479</link>
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		<title>Diving the deep wrecks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the winter months, Bay View resident Jitka Hanakova works as a business analyst. But from April to October, she takes scuba divers to some of the deepest, least accessible shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Hanakova started diving in 2000 and quickly fell in love with the sport. She found a good, local charter boat operator [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3472</link>
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		<title>Land Rush!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1830s many pioneer settlers arrived in what is today Bay View, staking claims in the future Town of Lake/Bay View area. Land surveys were not completed until 1836, however, so these early Yankee settlers had no legal right to settle the land.
To complicate matters, in the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the indigenous Potawatomi [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3467</link>
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		<title>Students dive into aquatic science at Lake Sturgeon Bowl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skiers have the Olympics. Football players have the Super Bowl. And Wisconsin high school students with a passion for the Great Lakes and oceans? They have the Lake Sturgeon Bowl.
Since 2002, UWM&#8217;s Great Lakes WATER Institute (GLWI) and School of Continuing Education, together with UW Sea Grant, have been hosting the annual academic tournament in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3470</link>
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		<title>Lake Huron sinkholes harbor unexpected life forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compared to the dark depths of the ocean or the frigid ends of the earth, Lake Huron hardly seems like an extreme environment. But sinkholes discovered at the lake&#8217;s bottom have conditions just as harsh-and harbor life forms just as unusual-as those of deep-sea hydrothermal vents or Antarctica&#8217;s permanently frozen lakes.
And like their marine and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3465</link>
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		<title>Mystery Building—Old Stollenwerk warehouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Cream City brick warehouse building was constructed in 1922 on the rear lot of Joseph and Nicholas Stollenwerk&#8217;s hardware store (now Faust Music) located at 2202-06 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. In 1935 it housed the Peerless Pattern Corporation, a metal pattern manufacturer, but is now used again as a warehouse. The structure is adjacent to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3462</link>
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		<title>The research in your paper is magnificent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Editor,
I just wanted to write to say I recently decided to subscribe to the Bay View Compass because of the quality of the research and writing I have seen in it. I also have a specific compliment on the [February 2010] issue. I don&#8217;t often submit comments, but I feel I must.
Prior to subscribing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3460</link>
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		<title>Call your representatives to support transit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Editor,
Kinnickinnic Avenue has struggled over the years to develop a vibrant and useful business district. The possible end of Milwaukee County Transit looms as yet another warning to each business owner (and their customers) along our business &#8220;strip.&#8221; In fact Bay View is served by four bus lines, which bring customers and employees from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/3458</link>
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