Morning Links for Aug. 29 2014

Morning Links for Aug. 29 2014

What we’re reading on this Friday morning. An FBI report blasts the former head of the Milwaukee office, Teresa Carlson. We once did a Q&A with Carlson. Paul Ryan supports cutting “corporate welfare” and increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit but not raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, according to the Journal Times in Racine. The LA Times describes Walker v. Burke as the tightest gubernatorial race in the country. Are scientists doing enough to analyze and share the reams of Big Data they’re collecting? Wired doesn’t think so. Meanwhile, Google engineers are attempting to develop a drone…

What we’re reading on this Friday morning.
  • An FBI report blasts the former head of the Milwaukee office, Teresa Carlson. We once did a Q&A with Carlson.
  • Are scientists doing enough to analyze and share the reams of Big Data they’re collecting? Wired doesn’t think so.
  • Meanwhile, Google engineers are attempting to develop a drone that can deliver packages at the drop of the hat. The Atlantic reports.

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.