Neighbor-in-Chief; West Allis Mayor's Political Expertise, Leadership Have Given City Direction As It Seeks to Redefine Itself

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West Allis - Mayor Jeannette Bell stands in the living room of her S. 60th St. bungalow amid a lifetime of memories.

It is a brief pause in a long day that began at 6 a.m. and will end that night by 9 if she's lucky, eliciting public input on the city's vision for the future.

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Neighbor-in-Chief; West Allis Mayor's Political Expertise, Leadership Have Given City Direction As It Seeks to Redefine Itself

In Bell's view, that future rests in part on the kind of economic redevelopment that, in her 11 years as mayor, has brought more than $200 million in new construction to this once moribund industrial city.

But it will be another mayor who cuts t...

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