📱Should teachers be able to text students?

Tomorrow is Election Day for the August primary! Are you ready? On the City Cast Madison podcast today, host Bianca Martin and producer Jade Iseri-Ramos take a deep dive into Tuesday’s election.

They talk about who’s running statewide and in Madison, and tell you everything you need to know in order to vote Tuesday, including polling location hours, what you need to register at the polls, and how to return an absentee ballot. Don't forget, you can also find your ballot, polling, and more election information at the MyVote Wisconsin website.

Bianca also revisits clips from our interviews with five of the candidates for governor (the only one who didn’t come on the show was Tom Tiffany – there’s still time, Tom!) If those clips whet your appetite, here are links to our full interviews. Listen to them all, and then make a plan to vote!

🧑‍🦼 Going the Distance For a Cause: To draw attention to threats to Medicaid-funded home care, a Fox Crossing man traveled 90 miles via motorized wheelchair to the Capitol in Madison. Carl Schulze spent 11 days on the journey to urge representatives to pass higher pay for caregivers, noting that President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” cut nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid funding. He arrived in Madison last Thursday afternoon and gave a speech at the Capitol. [WTMJ]

🚨 City Attorney Says Police Monitor Can’t Subpoena Department: State law forbids the Madison Police Department from sharing records related to the Corey Ruiz shooting with the city’s independent police monitor, city attorney Michael Haas said. Aeiramique Glass subpoenaed the MPD for the records, but Haas said that since the shooting is being investigated by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, those records are under state authority.

• Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway criticized Glass for saying “I will burn this city down” in a video on social media following an altercation with police in which her hand was injured. “I think it’s disturbing anytime a city employee is calling for violence,” Rhodes-Conway said at a press conference last week. The Police Civilian Oversight Board’s executive committee countered in a statement that Glass’ comment wasn’t a call to violence, but an “emotional and impassioned response to the circumstances.” [ 🔐WSJ, 🎧City Cast Madison, News 3]

📱 Should Madison Teachers Be Able to Text Students? The Madison School Board is weighing a ban on district staff texting students outside of approved digital platforms. Prosecutors charged a Memorial High School teacher in March with sexual misconduct and grooming behavior, including exchanging 130,000 text messages with a student. [Cap Times, MPD]

⚾ Congratulations Madison Night Mares! Three dingers helped lift the team to a 7-1 win over Wausau Ignite last week and to their second Northwood League championship! [WMTV]

💈 Reddit Complaint of the Week: The lights in this new barbershop on Regent Street are too bright! [Reddit]