PODCAST: Alicia Halvensleben, the next mayor of the City of Waukesha
Apr 20, 2026, 9:23 AM CT
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The Spring Election in Wisconsin was just a couple short weeks ago, and while the big headline statewide was on Chris Taylor’s landslide victory in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court, one of the local elections that drew a lot of attention was the race for mayor in the city of Waukesha, where Council President Alicia Halvensleben, a Democrat, defeated longtime Republican state representative Scott Allen.
Mayor-Elect Halvensleben will be sworn in as mayor on Tuesday, April 21, and she joins us here on the podcast on the eve of becoming mayor.
Topics discussed include: reflecting on the campaign, Election Day, shifting political tides in Waukesha County, and what’s next as she becomes mayor.
Watch the video above, or on our YouTube Channel here:
Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes The Recombobulation Area. In 2024, he and the publication joined Civic Media, where he is currently a Contributing Editor. He’s written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Heartland Signal, Belt Magazine, WisPolitics, and Milwaukee Record. He previously worked at Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and BizTimes Milwaukee. He’s won 24 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer.
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