Morning Links for Dec. 9 2014

Morning Links for Dec. 9 2014

Your daily dose of noteworthy news.  In good news for your lungs, the state’s smoking rate for adults is at its lowest point on record. The U.S. Senate is releasing its “long-awaited” report on torture tactics used by the CIA after 9/11. If you guessed the information within it would be divisive for our dominant political parties, you are correct. Facebook is studying how it might warn you that you’re uploading embarrassing photos before you upload them, thereby helping to solve a problem the website has long enabled.  The Journal Sentinel has thrown its weight behind the Couture building project, calling those opposed…

Your daily dose of noteworthy news. 

  • In good news for your lungs, the state’s smoking rate for adults is at its lowest point on record.
  • The U.S. Senate is releasing its “long-awaited” report on torture tactics used by the CIA after 9/11. If you guessed the information within it would be divisive for our dominant political parties, you are correct.
  • The Journal Sentinel has thrown its weight behind the Couture building project, calling those opposed to the project “misguided advocates.” 

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.