🚌 Metro boosts security after bus attacks

🚌 Attacks on Buses Spark New Safety Measures

• Metro Transit is making changes in an attempt to improve employee safety after several recent attacks on bus drivers, including one incident where a driver crashed a bus into two businesses.
• The changes include new safety barriers to protect drivers, increased penalties for disorderly conduct, and creating an incident review board. [ City of Madison]

💸 Feds End Climate Grant for Children’s Museum

• Madison Children’s Museum officials say a federal grant worth over $268,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support climate action plans was abruptly terminated last week.
• The grant was awarded last year, and museum officials say they’ve already spent money on programs in anticipation of receiving that money. Museums and libraries have said the severe funding cuts and federal layoffs enacted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Officiency will have drastic impacts on their ability to operate.
• 🎧 Dig deeper: On the City Cast Madison podcast today, host Bianca Martin talked to Madison Public Library Director Tana Elias about how Madison museums and libraries are drawing attention to the cuts and rallying public support. [WKOW, City of Madison, 🎧 City Cast Madison]

🚰 Madison Gets an ‘A’ on Water Quality Report Card

• The Madison Water Utility got top marks on Wisconsin’s first “water utility report card.” The card was designed by Manuel Teodoro, a professor in UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, to evaluate the state’s 572 water utilities.
• Madison got A’s for both water quality and communications, with low or zero detection of most contaminants. The utility also received B’s for finance and infrastructure. [ 🔒 WSJ]

Back in the day, you might have stayed out until the wee hours enjoying all the cultural happenings the city has to offer. But maybe those late nights don’t sound as appealing as that feeling of your head hitting the pillow before 10 p.m.

Luckily, in Madison you don’t have to choose between having a good time and getting a good night’s sleep. Here are some fun activities you can do around town that won’t leave you bleary-eyed the next morning.

Hot Flash Dance Party

Who says you have to stay out late to go dancing? The Cardinal Bar hosts Hot Flash the first Friday of every month, with DJ Millbot and guest DJs spinning club hits from the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, and more from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Stand-Up Comedy

Touring comedians who play at the Comedy Club on State and elsewhere usually play two shows a night, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. (Or earlier! Daniel Tosh has a 5 p.m. show at the Orpheum Theater on June 22.)

Since comedy shows usually last around 75-90 minutes, you’re out the door of that early show by 8:30 p.m. As Patton Oswalt said at an early Madison show recently, “You’re home in bed by 9 p.m.! My people!”

Author Events

The Wisconsin Book Festival, A Room Of One’s Own, and other local booksellers usually schedule their author events at 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. They typically last an hour. Pro tip: Buy a copy of the book before the talk if you don’t want to wait in a long book signing line afterwards.

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