Your Daily Guide

🎭 Free Conversation about Black Resistance in Theater: The Overture Community Advisory Council and Center for Black Excellence and Culture are hosting a free event exploring the history and impact of Black resistance in theater both on and off the stage. The event will be Sept. 21 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Center for Black Excellence and Culture. [Madison365]

⚖️ Madison Police Monitor’s Hiring Possibly Violates Rules: The city’s finance director and lead attorney released a memo outlining how the interim independent police monitor has hired a forensic pathologist and outside attorney without first arranging their payment or getting formal agreements for their work, which doesn’t follow city procedures.

• Interim monitor Aeiramique Glass has stated her office doesn’t have to follow city procedures. But the memo says that violation of those procedures puts the city in financial and reputational risk. [🔒WSJ]

🛒 Grocery Store in South Madison Set to Open: Maurer's Urban Market on 815 Cedar St. is set to open October 5. The store has been hosting walk-in interviews this week at their store, which will continue through 3 p.m. today. [WKOW, Facebook]

💧 Flooding in Downtown State Office Building: A water pipe leak caused flooding in the 10-story office building on 101 East Wilson St. that houses the Wisconsin Department of Administration. The building was shut down to the public and employees, and no one was hurt. [The Cap Times]

💰 50% More Pay for Jurors? In the Dane County’s Clerk of Court's 2027 budget proposal, Jeff Okazaki proposes jurors get paid $30 per day for jury duty instead of $20. This proposal is to offset the burden jury duty places on hourly workers who lose out on wages when they serve on a jury, according to the clerk. The City Cast Madison team talks on the podcast today about whether the county can afford this change on today’s episode. [WKOW, 🎧 City Cast Madison]