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Former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on missing Milwaukee politics: “It’s all yours, baby!”

Matt Wild
November 14, 2022
Does former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett—who held the city's top position from 2004 to 2021, only to suddenly resign mid-term and accept a position as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg—miss his old gig?...

Tom Barrett says he won’t run for governor for the 8,000th time

Matt Wild
May 29, 2018
Last time we checked in with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, he was mulling running for Wisconsin governor—despite the fact that he had failed to win the office not once, not twice, but three times in the past (an...

Here’s Mayor Barrett’s “state of the city” speech for 2016

Milwaukee Record Staff
February 8, 2016
// Monday morning, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett delivered his 2016 "state of the city" speech at the Hmong American Peace Academy. Here's the full text of that speech, via the Journal Sentinel. (The petition...

Did the mayor mention Milwaukee’s place on an online list in his State of the City speech? Of course he did

Matt Wild
March 9, 2015
This morning at Alverno College, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett delivered his 2015 State of the City speech. (You can find the entire text here, courtesy of Urban Milwaukee.) With a theme of “One Milwaukee,” it wa...
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