Morning Links for Aug. 8 2014

Morning Links for Aug. 8 2014

What we’re reading on this fine Friday morning. A debate among the candidates vying to fill Tom Petri’s seat in Congress turned into a whipping of West Bend state senator Glenn Grothman, the Journal Sentinel reports. Hey, wait a minute. Senator Ron Johnson says he’s a “huge supporter” of Gov. Scott Walker in an interview with the Post Crescent. A CNN poll found that only 13 percent believe that government “can be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time.” Has the golden era of gaming-ready laptops finally arrived? Alienware would like to think so. In…

What we’re reading on this fine Friday morning.
  • A debate among the candidates vying to fill Tom Petri’s seat in Congress turned into a whipping of West Bend state senator Glenn Grothman, the Journal Sentinel reports.

  • Hey, wait a minute. Senator Ron Johnson says he’s a “huge supporter” of Gov. Scott Walker in an interview with the Post Crescent.

  • A CNN poll found that only 13 percent believe that government “can be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time.”

  • Has the golden era of gaming-ready laptops finally arrived? Alienware would like to think so.
  • In other computing news, IBM may have developed a computer chip that functions like a neural network, and the benefits could be huge.

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.