Morning Links for Feb. 18 2014

Morning Links for Feb. 18 2014

Don’t let this intro get in the way of you reading links. A group of parents, students and School Board members in Shorewood are questioning school start times. Later is greater, they say. City workers in Detroit are trying to digitally catalog the tens of thousands of abandoned buildings, which will help clarify the size of one of many of the city’s problems. Assembly Republicans are trying to require supermajority votes (two thirds of both houses) written into the state Constitution when it comes to raising taxes. New York magazine’s Cut Blog has a bit of inside peek into the…

Don’t let this intro get in the way of you reading links.

  • A group of parents, students and School Board members in Shorewood are questioning school start times. Later is greater, they say.

  • Assembly Republicans are trying to require supermajority votes (two thirds of both houses) written into the state Constitution when it comes to raising taxes.

  • New York magazine’s Cut Blog has a bit of inside peek into the competitive world of figure skating. You knew it was competitive, but brace yourself for the sky-high expenses.

  • One woman is taking a feminist eye to the dark art of stock photography. (Milwaukee Magazine uses stock photography regularly, like many magazines and websites.) Pam Grossman, the woman behind the new images and the director of visual trends at Getty Images, says, “Do we think this is the only way to solve the complicated issues about
    making women and girls more equal? Of course not. There are so many
    different things that need to happen. But this is what we have the power
    to do right now.”

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.