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Meet the candidates: Wilmette Board of Trustees BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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ilmette residents will be heading to the ballots in April to vote for three new village trustees in a contested election. Four candidates — Kathy Dodd, Joel Kurzman, Steven Leonard, and Reinhard Schneider — are running for three open trustee positions. Bob Bielinski is running unopposed seeking a second fouryear term as village president. The three trustee seats opened up after trustees Ted McKenna and Cameron Krueger decided to retire. Carol Ducommun is leaving her position as trustee to return to the New Trier Township High School Board 203, where she previously held a seat. So who are the candidates for trustee and why are they seeking to serve the community? DailyNorthShore asked each of the candidates Continued on PG 12
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Comedian brings his stand-up show to Genesee Theatre BY DONALD LIEBENSON DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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f life is a song, Dennis Miller jokes that his could be Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere.” On March 23, “everywhere” expands to include Waukegan, where he will perform at the Genesee Theatre. Emmy-winner Miller takes the stage less than 100 days into Donald Trump’s presidency, but lest anyone think that his current stand-up solo tour (he also performs gigs partnered with Bill O’Reilly, host of the top-rated The O’Reilly Factor) is some kind of victory lap, the 63-year-old comedian points out, “I’ve never said in public who I’ve voted for. Many, many times I’ve said that they could have had a ballot that
simply said ‘Hillary/Not Hillary’ and I would have voted ‘Not Hillary.’ But I’ll make jokes about Trump, Ryan, Biden, Hillary, anybody on either side. They all look like the town elders from Footloose to me.” Clearly, Miller is enjoying watching members of not only the left, but also conservatives as they fret and squirm while Trump “flips the table,” as he observed in one of his postelection “Miller Time” segments on The O’Reilly Factor. “I’m conservative on many things, and more liberal on a lot of other things,” Miller explained. For example, he says he supports gay marriage and a woman’s right to choose. However, he adds, “I don’t trust radical Islam and I’d like to keep half my money.” Miller is a topical comedian; like Law & Order, his material is often ripped from the day’s headlines. It’s a skill he honed as the “Weekend Update” anchor on Saturday Night Live from 1985-1991. Of the 17 cast members who have held that prime comedic real estate, including Chevy Chase, Bill Continued on PG 12 Dennis Miller will be making people laugh locally on March 23. PHOTO COURTESY OF DENNIS MILLER
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