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...Hofstede, 33, wanted to go to medical school, but his application was late, and so he had to take a civil service job with the state of Minnesota to make ends meet. The son of a Dutch-born truck driver, Hofstede decided to stay in government, became a Minneapolis alderman at 26. Last year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in a startling upset over the law-and-order incumbent, Police Detective Charles Stenvig. Since taking office, he has begun an ambitious multimillion-dollar urban-renovation plan, reorganized equipment to provide better mass-transit service and placed considerable emphasis...
...Democratic Convention Singer saw Chicago Mayor Richard Daley deliver the Illinois votes without polling the delegation. "I realized then that we had to work from the bottom up to bring out a more open political process." In a stunning upset, the independent Democrat was elected alderman in a strong machine ward...
Despite his casual approach, Soglin has accomplished much in his first year in office. As alderman, Soglin supported a proposal to turn the city's State Street into a pedestrian mall. Last week construction began on the $15 million project, which had been vetoed by his predecessor, who feared it would turn the street into a hippie haven...
Soglin, as alderman, helped push through a bill enabling the city to take over Madison's failing private bus line and has since got $2.135 million in federal grants for buying new equipment. As a result of improvements made during his administration, ridership on the bus line is up 17% in the last year. The mayor has also tightened housing inspection procedures, started a fund to provide loans for home rehabilitation, and opened city government to more people. Of the 370 people Soglin has named to city committees, 47.7% have been women and, in a city where only...
...house he and his wife recently bought and to his $24,000 salary, suspect that he has gone bourgeois. Others feel that he has at least retreated from the radicalism of his student days. "There are council members who are submitting much more progressive legislation than Paul is," says Alderman Susan Kay Phillips, 29, a member of the radical Wisconsin Alliance. Even the university's Daily Cardinal, which endorsed his mayoral bid, has become critical. Soglin, it charged, has provided "mere efficiency, not change...