Thursday, May 5
Employees of Wisconsin’s notoriously short-staffed prison system are getting $10 million in raises, announces newly confirmed Department of Corrections Secretary Jon Litscher. He hopes the pay bump will help with recruitment, retention and morale.
Monday, May 9
Members of the Wisconsin Bed and Breakfast Association are going to war with people who operate unlicensed, untaxed short-term rentals via websites like Airbnb and VRBO, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Members of the organization have filed 32 complaints against properties since last summer.
The Capital Times reports that before a controversial vote on a new tenure policy, UW System President Ray Cross emailed a regent that the debate “has exposed the real value of removing tenure-related policies from statutory language.”
Tuesday, May 10
Madison suffers its sixth homidice of 2016 when Darius Haynes, 38, is shot to death at a BP station on Verona Road. Police later say Haynes was “summarily executed” and reveal that he was a friend of Martez Moore, a man fatally shot in April outside O’Grady’s Pub on the far west side.
A memo from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau reports that Gov. Scott Walker’s administration deferred a debt payment for the second year in a row. Putting off the payment of $101 million helps balance the budget in the short-term, but costs taxpayers an extra $2.3 million in deferred interest over the next eight years, the bureau says.
Two former West High School coaches, both African American, accuse the school’s former athletic director, Sandy Botham, of racial discrimination and assault, WISC-TV reports. Botham left her position last week.
