Capitol Fax: Um, mayor? What the heck?

 Rich Miller covers the FOIA request over emails from Mayor Lori Lightfoot and it's not good. Perhaps many are accusing the mayor of not treating the people who work for her very well. In fact one email that I noticed over the weekend shows her writing repeatedly about how she needs office time. 

I liken that to having to write things over and over again as punishment as perhaps my class had to do in grammar school. Not fun and jarring to see a politician do something similar.

Um, mayor? What the heck? https://t.co/8azWLRSh7H

— Rich Miller (@capitolfax) June 14, 2021

I just had to share this from the blog

…Adding… I didn’t notice this at the end of the Politico story…

The mayor’s job is tough. It’s not hard to imagine her predecessors — Rahm Emanuel or Richard M. Daley — erupting similarly. Hers was just memorialized in an email.

Um, no.

 Hmmmm, being Mayor of Chicago is a tough job. And I have a difficult time believing her immediate predecessors Daley and Emanuel would've had their behavior immortalized in an email that could be FOIA'd.

When I get elected to something I need to avoid using email or any private messaging. While not transparent it seems smart....

Today is the day we're back to normal

 I'm sharing the tweets from Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot the state of Illinois is fully reopened and so is the city of Chicago. You still have to wear your mask on CTA regardless of whether or not your vaccinated. And not to confuse you most anywhere else other than on CTA, if you've been vaccinated you don't need your mask.

However as far as "normalcy" we're back to where we were before the pandemic and before the initial mitigations or the stay-at-home order from March 2020. We had a rough year, but we've made it. I don't need to tell you that coronavirus is still out there so it always pays to take your precautions.

Most importantly if you're most at risk for this tricky virus please get vaccinated as it's of no cost to you. Also if you're hesitant always ask questions of a doctor or someone in the healthcare field.

Here's a quick report from WGN [VIDEO]

And here are the tweets. Starting from Mayor Lightfoot

CBS Chicago: Urban Prep Charter Academy teachers enters 2nd day of strike

 

[VIDEO] I don't know how many families who read this blog are affected by this, however, there is a strike at an charter school in Englewood. Urban Prep is known as an all-male charter school with locations in Englewood, Bronzeville and the West Side. There were three years of negotiation and one sticking point is pay, teachers at Urban Prep are paid less than those hired by Chicago Public Schools.

Another sticking point is special education that teachers don't stay at Urban Prep long enough to meet the needs of special education students and lack those resources.

City could go into phase 5 with the rest of the state on June 11

 

[VIDEO] Main thing is that coronavirus cases are beginning to go down and especially since people are getting vaccinated. Especially those with underlying conditions or elderly who definitely have a need to be vaccinated.

We're currently in the bridge phase in the state which is before phase 5 which is a full re-opening. I'm glad to see things really return to normal after a very difficult year of pandemic restrictions. It had been at the news that Mayor Lightfoot had planned to fully reopen the city next month on the Fourth of July.

One issue noted in this report the city still doesn't have 70% of residents vaccinated. Only 41% have been vaccinated so far.

I was hoping to have some official documentation however the State of Illinois' website is down. :(

Capitol Fax: Compromise plan for elected school board passes state senate

So we have clear path to an elected school board. It would start off as a hybrid with both appointed and elected members in the near future. This occurred just yesterday near the end of the session. The post starts off discussing a local state legislator who plans to call this compromise for a "concurrence" in the state House of Representatives. There was a bill in the state House for a fully elected school board.

House sponsor of Chicago elected school board bill endorses compromise legislation as Senate takes it up https://t.co/IDSP67oswd

— Rich Miller (@capitolfax) June 1, 2021