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About half of Milwaukee voters will elect new school board members April 6, with no incumbents running for four open seats.
Two of the races have only one candidate on the ballot: Walker’s Point Center for the Arts executive director Marcela Garcia for the south side District 6 seat now held by Tony Baez; and recently retired Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Harry Leonard for the southwest District 7 seat held by Paula Phillips.
The north side District 4 seat is contested between Silver Spring Neighborhood Center Opportunity Youth Program Director Aisha Carr and North Side Rising organizer Dana Kelley.
Running for District 5 on the east side are Alex Brower, director of Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans; and Jilly Gokalgandhi, Equity in Education team member at American Family Insurance Institute.
Open Up Your World by Liz Allen
Liz Allen
Tired of being tethered to Zoom? I am, too.
But thanks in part to suggestions from Zoom friends and other sources, I ve cobbled together five ideas to help you beat the COVID winter blues.
Your Move
On my Monday Zooms with friends from the Villa class of 69, we vent about Trumpian politics and help each other cope with the anger, fear, and frustration about our country s descent into chaos.
We also reminisce, including about the time when two enterprising classmates started a Villa chess club. I joined but was never a stellar player. Still, given the raves for the Netflix blockbuster