Ive’s crying and placing blame because her side lost.
Gotta love that party of responsibility and self-reliance.
This wasn’t a problem for these same people when it was their team doing it. My local community college board got taken over by partisan right wingers, and we just have to live with it.
Agree with the suggestion to eliminate odd year elections. Saves money, makes sure your reps are elected by a representative number of voters.
===While Graham opposes political parties in local elections, teachers unions also should get out of the business of endorsing candidates, she said.===
They should get out of the business of advocating for their members?
After electoral loss, District 214 parents slate renews calls for transparency
The Northwest Suburban High School District 214 board met for the first time Thursday since a contentious election. Christopher Placek | Staff Photographer Elizabeth Bauer
Posted4/9/2021 5:00 AM
Coming off one of the most contentious Northwest Suburban High School District 214 board elections in recent years, supporters of the losing slate of candidates renewed calls Thursday for increased transparency from the board and administration.
But the board president maintains that the district is transparent.
Those comments came during and after a school board meeting Thursday night less than 48 hours after returns began coming in for the eight-way contest.
Reopening debate or not, District 25, 214 incumbents dominate Upper from left, Melisa Andrews, Gina Faso, Rich Olejniczak, Anisha Patel and lower from left, Katie Rausch, Greg Scapillato, Deborah Tranter and Todd Witherow were candidates for District 25 school board in the 2021 election. Upper from left, Elizabeth Bauer, Mark Hineman, Rich Menninga, Millie Palmer, and lower from left, Andrea Rauch, Tony Rosselli, Jacqueline Ryan and Lenny Walker were candidates for the District 214 school board in the 2021 election. Anisha Patel
Posted4/8/2021 5:00 AM
Whether it was the reopening debate that got people out to the polls or not, incumbents in two hotly contested Arlington Heights-area school board races ruled election night.
UpdatedTue, Apr 6, 2021 at 8:36 pm CT
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The polls in Lake County and Suburban Cook County opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday and closed at 7 p.m. (Google Maps)
BUFFALO GROVE, IL Four-year seats on a village board or city council are highly coveted in local political circles. In Buffalo Grove, five candidates were vying for three of these seats Tuesday in a race involving three incumbents and two challengers.
Polls officially closed at 7 p.m. Results are starting to trickle in as the Lake County and Cook County Clerk s Offices tally up the vote totals.
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Andrea Rauch, 2021 candidate for Northwest Community High School Dist. 214 Mildred Palmer, 2021 candidate for Northwest Community High School Dist. 214 Mark Hineman, 2021 candidate for Northwest Community High School Dist. 214 Lenny Walker Richard Menninga, 2021 candidate for Northwest Community High School Dist. 214 Tony Rosselli, 2021 candidate for Northwest Community High School Dist. 214 Jacqueline Ryan, 2021 candidate for Northwest Community High School Dist. 214 Upper from left, Elizabeth Bauer, Mark Hineman, Richard Menninga, Mildred Palmer, and lower from left, Andrea Rauch, Tony Rosselli, Jacqueline Ryan and Lenny Walker are candidates for the District 214 school board in the 2021 election.
Updated 4/6/2021 10:46 PM
An incumbent-led slate that favored a careful reopening of schools in Northwest Suburban High School District 214 and was endorsed by the teachers union has taken an early lead in the race for four seats on the board.