The $5,000 fine issued Monday is the second time the Ethics Board has punished Brookins, who was first elected to the City Council in 2003 and serves as Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s hand-picked chairman of the City Council’s Transportation and Public Way Committee.

You’re nobody nowadays until you’ve been canceled. It’s the new new thing. To be stripped in one fell swoop of every degree, title, honor, award, or citation you’ve ever earned, in retaliation for having written or said something that, only a few years ago, would have been regarded as innocuous or self-evident or, at most, provocative, is where it’s at in 2020.

A sometime teacher at Northwestern and Chicago born, Epstein held the title of emeritus lecturer there. His name and title have now vanished from the website of the university.

In other words, we support academic freedom and freedom

Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates said the part-time job posting was the first the union heard teachers might teach remotely to students in a classroom, a proposition she called “slightly less terrible than forcing teachers to engage in synchronous learning from unsafe buildings.” She said in a statement, however, that “hiring people into a position that barely pays minimum wage, with zero health care benefits in the middle of a pandemic, seems particularly cynical.”

Reilly said part of his opposition stemmed from the fact that the district’s proposed budget of $764,714 would have been used to pay for staff rather than direct efforts to help businesses along Michigan Avenue.

“Teachers, is it time yet to tell the union, enough? To revisit your rights to take back some of your dues under the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus decision? How about defunding the CTU?”

“The decision about who will be speaker of the House will be made by Democrats in the House. The decision about who will lead the state party will be made by people who are members of the state party leadership,” Preckwinkle said. “I’m not [in] either of those places.”

The CPS-Meeting Tomorrow deal also offers a glimpse into the relationship between Lightfoot’s office — which has steered some coronavirus-response business to companies with political ties — and the district, where CEO Janice Jackson serves at the mayor’s pleasure.

“People that are engaging in crimes and gang members — they’re not observing the stay-at-home order as much as most other folks,” said Matthew Cline, the Chicago Police Department’s commander of public transportation.

Last weekend 40 people were shot, 6 fatally citywide.