Morning Links for Aug. 19 2014

Morning Links for Aug. 19 2014

Your daily menagerie of news bites. –  A Massachusetts man woke up to an unsettling surprise: a drunk, bloody stranger asleep on his couch. – A former Milwaukee County employee has been charged with six felony counts, including accepting bribes for contract work. – The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has found significant racial disparities in the state’s special drug courts.   – Milwaukee Record has a nice read on local rocker Kinth’s latest album.   – Protesters and police clashed again in Ferguson, Mo., despite the presence of the National Guard.  

Your daily menagerie of news bites.

–  A Massachusetts man woke up to an unsettling surprise: a drunk, bloody stranger asleep on his couch.

– A former Milwaukee County employee has been charged with six felony counts, including accepting bribes for contract work.

– The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has found significant racial disparities in the state’s special drug courts.  

– Milwaukee Record has a nice read on local rocker Kinth’s latest album.
 
– Protesters and police clashed again in
Ferguson, Mo., despite the presence of the National Guard.  

Claire Hanan worked at the magazine as an editor from 2012-2017. She edited the Culture section and wrote stories about all sorts of topics, including the arts, fashion, politics and more. In 2016, she was a finalist for best profile writing at the City and Regional Magazine Awards for her story "In A Flash." In 2014, she won the the Milwaukee Press gold award for best public service story for editing "Handle With Care," a service package about aging in Milwaukee. Before all this, she attended the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and New York University's Summer Publishing Institute.