A mix of hard news and guilty pleasure reads, this is what we’re reading on this cold-yet-sunny morning. Now you can, too.
- According to the A.V. Club Milwaukee, there are rumblings of a trust trying to revive the Grand Warner Theatre (212 W. Wisconsin Ave.). The same trust successfully revived a theater in Minnesota, so they’re hopeful about the Grand Warner, citing its mostly cosmetic damages.
- The Journal Sentinel reports that there ain’t no mountain high enough for the price of Midwestern farmland, including Wisconsin’s, which is selling for up to $10,000 per acre. One of the factors is a positive grain market, but Wisconsin farmland prices rose 11 percent last year despite the historic drought.
- Unpopular politicians, rest easy. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that there was a bill introduced yesterday in the state Senate that would make it harder to initiate a recall election. Under this bill, only politicians charged with ethics or criminal violations would eligible for recall.
- A judge ruled that the reselling of lawfully purchased digital files is copyright infringement, Wired says. And for now, most of the book publishing industry sighed with relief.
- The internet is coming for you, Dear Margo and Dear Prudence. The New York Times has a trend piece on digital etiquette arbiters and their increasing presence on YouTube.
