⚛️ Is Wisconsin going nuclear?

🏡 Let the Grass Grow Under Your Feet for Low Mow May

• Haven’t gotten the mower tuned up yet? No problem. The city’s Building Inspection Division is once again won’t be citing people for letting their grass grow too long this month as part of Low Mow May.
• Low Mow May is intended to help the pollinators, who thrive in grass of at least 4 or 5 inches where they can more easily pollinate dandelions, violets, and clover. City inspectors normally notify homeowners if their grass is 8 inches or taller that they need to mow or face a fine. But they will hold off enforcement until June. [City of Madison]

⚛️ Will Wisconsin Become a Nuclear Energy Powerhouse?

• With the demand for electricity rising, Republican and Democratic legislators are warming to the idea of using nuclear power to bolster the state’s power grid, despite past skepticism of the industry.
• A bipartisan group of lawmakers want to position Wisconsin on the vanguard of nuclear energy. They are proposing to use state funding for nuclear research, and to designate nuclear power as clean energy in the same way that solar power and wind power are defined.
• 🎧 Dig deeper: Is Wisconsin having a nuclear energy moment? Cap Times statehouse reporter Andrew Bahl talks about the growing push to go nuclear on the City Cast Madison podcast today with executive producer Hayley Sperling. [Cap Times, 🎧 City Cast Madison]

👔 City Hall Faces A Leadership Vacuum

• For very different reasons, five top leadership positions in Madison city government will soon be vacant, prompting interim appointments and national searches for replacements.
• The city currently does not have a city clerk, a permanent police chief, a transportation director or a Community Development Authority director, and will lose its Metro Transit leader at the end of May.
• Longtime city clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl resigned last month, and a city investigation found significant violations in how she handled an incident in which 193 absentee ballots went uncounted in the Nov. 5 election. Police Chief Shon Barnes left in January to take a job as Seattle’s top cop. [Cap Times, City of Madison WPR, 🎧 City Cast Madison]

Have you been paying attention to the news lately? Here are five questions to help test your knowledge, from a famous comedian's big ticket prices to new cuties at the zoo!

Jerry Seinfeld is performing at Overture Hall on May 30. What is the top ticket price for his show?

• $500
• $800
• $1000
• $1500 (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)