Campaign Updates

News from the campaign and across Green Bay.

Updates on the campaign, local events, and the city work that helps shape Green Bay’s future.

Runners moving through a Green Bay neighborhood during a community event.

August 17, 2026

A city can make public health practical

Not every city health initiative needs to be complicated. Sometimes leadership means making a healthy habit visible, inviting people into public space, and treating prevention as part of civic life.

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The Milo C. Huempfner VA Outpatient Clinic in Green Bay.

August 17, 2026

A veterans clinic is city infrastructure, too

Cities are judged by whether people can get the services they need close to home. For veterans and their families, that includes health care delivered with dignity and proximity.

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An aerial view of Bay Beach Amusement Park and the Green Bay shoreline.

August 17, 2026

Using every tool that helped Green Bay

Green Bay’s future was never going to be built with one level of government or one funding source. The work required the city to use the tools available when they served a local purpose.

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Aerial view of the Highway 41 corridor and interchange in Green Bay.

August 17, 2026

The details on Highway 41 mattered

It is easy to dismiss design details as extras. It is harder to explain why a city should accept a worse first impression, less thoughtful pedestrian infrastructure, or a stripped-down public gateway when the decision will shape the community for decades.

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A voter marking a municipal ballot that includes City of Green Bay offices.

August 17, 2026

Putting term limits on the ballot

The clearest test of public-service rhetoric is what happens when the rule applies to the person making it.

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Jim Schmitt seated at the mayor's desk with a wooden gavel.

August 17, 2026

Building a city that could afford to build

Ambition without financial discipline is a promise that eventually fails. Financial discipline without city-building is a slow retreat. Green Bay needed both.

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A Packers Heritage Trail bronze statue beneath the trail sign.

August 17, 2026

A city is also its public art

The things that make a city worth living in are not always the things that fit neatly into a campaign slogan. A family museum, a garden, a piece of public art, and a well-used park all shape whether people feel a city belongs to them.

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