WASHINGTON -- In a single week last April, 3 people were killed with guns in Philadelphia, 14 more were shot and wounded, 68 robberies were carried out at gunpoint and a total of 144 crimes involving firearms were reported. During that same week in San Diego, a city of roughly the same size with far fewer police officers, there were no gun-related...
MILWAUKEE -- A snowstorm was building across the plains, but Bryan Smith was sweating. Taking a break from a lunchtime mountain bike ride, he surveyed with satisfaction the tangle of ramps, twisting wooden lattice paths and teeter-totters fanning out around him under the fluorescent glow of the lights of Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park....
MILWAUKEE -- President Obama came here on Wednesday to promote his new ''insourcing'' economic plan, which he says could help prod American manufacturers to bring jobs home from China and elsewhere overseas. But the biggest question buzzing about his visit was what he and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin would say to each other when they toured the...
Milwaukee er en by i den amerikanske delstat Wisconsin med 596.974
indbyggere i 2000. Det er den største by i Wisconsin. Byen er beliggende i den sydøstlige del af delstaten ved Michigan-søens vestlige bred.
Byen anlagdes af franske missionærer i 1833. Navnet Milwaukee stammer fra et lokalt oprindeligt sprog, men den præcise betydning af ordet af uvis. Milwaukee er kendt som USA's ølhovedstad, og der er herfra, ølmærket Miller stammer. Et andet kendt firma fra Milwaukee er Harley-Davidson.
Milwaukee er amtssæde for amtet Milwaukee County.