Morning Links for April 4 2014

Morning Links for April 4 2014

What we’re reading on this fine Friday morning. WisPolitics is reporting that the state Assembly isn’t moving quickly to expel Bill Kramer, accused of sexual assault, but leaders are still calling for his resignation. Whoopsie daisy. A large number of voters in Kaukauna, Wis., were given the wrong ballots on Tuesday, according to the Post Crescent. Breaking: A “veteran Associated Press photographer” and a 60-year-old reporter have been shot by an Afghan policeman, Reuters reports. Both journalists were sitting in the back of a car, and one has died. Reuters also says that an outbreak of the deadly virus Ebola,…

What we’re reading on this fine Friday morning.

  • WisPolitics is reporting that the state Assembly isn’t moving quickly to expel Bill Kramer, accused of sexual assault, but leaders are still calling for his resignation.
  • Breaking: A “veteran Associated Press photographer” and a 60-year-old reporter have been shot by an Afghan policeman, Reuters reports. Both journalists were sitting in the back of a car, and one has died.
  • Reuters also says that an outbreak of the deadly virus Ebola, which causes hemorrhagic fever, appears to be spreading in western Africa. 
  • And we go to the the Daily Mail for a thoroughly legitimate story on the rising, er, “soaring” number of poisoning cases linked to e-cigarettes.

Matt has written for Milwaukee Magazine since 2006, when he was a lowly intern. Since then, he’s held the posts of assistant news editor and, most recently, senior editor. He’s lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, Iowa, and Indiana but mostly in Wisconsin. He wants to do more fishing but has a hard time finding worms. For the magazine, Matt has written about city government, schools, religion, coffee roasters and Congress.