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Racine's $1.7M federal block grants plan: Alders clash about code enforcement vs. neighborhood repairs

RACINE — Racine’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Advisory Board on Monday approved a $1.74 million federal spending plan on Monday, but not without sharp debate over whether too much money ...
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Op Ed: Code Enforcement as a Crime-Fighting Tool in Inner-City Neighborhoods – A Call to Action

In the battle to reclaim inner-city neighborhoods from the grip of crime and disinvestment, we must give proper attention to a tool that is too often overlooked: code enforcement. While law ...