Wisconsin Examiner
Eau Claire City Hall. (Wisconsin Historical Society)
In 2019, Kyle Woodman ran for an at-large seat on the Eau Claire City Council. In his campaign, he commented on the local issues that were likely to be decided by the 11-member body. He told VolumeOne
, a Chippewa Valley culture magazine, his priority was building infrastructure that would facilitate economic growth.
He finished in 10th in a 10-person race.
This year, he’s running for City Council again, against incumbent Emily Anderson, but now he’s got a much different strategy. Woodman is largely ignoring local issues unless agitating against a countywide mask mandate counts.
BURLINGTON â Party politics is creeping into a nonpartisan Burlington political season that is also marked by the emergence of a new group espousing anti-government viewpoints, which has shared videos calling on people to ârebelâ and âto preserve our community, our state, our nation and our way of life.â
Two candidates for the Burlington Area School District School Board are getting support from the Racine County Republican Party, despite the fact that the nonpartisan nature of the school board is intended to enable the conduct of board business free from party influences.
Simultaneously, other candidates on the April 6 ballot for offices in the City of Burlington and Town of Burlington have associated themselves with a new group called Patriots for a United Burlington.
“I hope to put myself in the position of a first-time listener” he says a listener replete with 21st century attitudes, preconceptions, prejudices. What about first-time listeners in Schubert’s day? For a start, most often they would not have been ‘audience’ but ‘performers’ round the family piano, at various levels of proficiency, entertaining themselves in the absence of CDs, streaming, netflix and social media. Perhaps playing and singing one’s way through the oeuvre would be more rewarding.
Those ‘sucking-up’ pieces for Salieri can be found on YouTube, and in IMSLP, and they’re rather pleasant. For those curious about their original context, an article by Christopher H. Gibbs, on Schubert’s relationships with Beethoven and Salieri, gives details: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8G73R92/download
BURLINGTON â A lively year for local elections is taking shape in Burlington, as several newcomers announce their candidacies for both city government and schools.
Voters in the April 6 elections will have contested races to decide for both the Burlington City Council and the Burlington Area School Board.
Issues motivating candidates include attracting new business downtown, controlling pollution from local industry and resolving racial tensions in the schools.
School board challenger Marlo Brown, in his first bid for elected office, said he wants to give voice to Black people and other minorities in the public school district.
In an ongoing debate about whether racism has gone unchecked by school district officials, Brown said he stands âsquarely in the middleâ of two opposing sides in the community.