Morning Links for July 11 2014

Morning Links for July 11 2014

What we’re reading on this Friday morning. Northwestern Mutual is proposing that it buy O’Donnell Park on the Lakefront for $14 million and modernize it, according to the Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has concluded that school districts can’t force high school students to pay tuition for college courses they take under special programs. A legal challenge attempting to ban the use of dogs in wolf hunts has lost an appeal, according to the Associated Press. An escort stands accused of manslaughter in the case of a Google executive who died of a heroin overdose on his…

What we’re reading on this Friday morning.

  • Northwestern Mutual is proposing that it buy O’Donnell Park on the Lakefront for $14 million and modernize it, according to the Journal Sentinel.
  • Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has concluded that school districts can’t force high school students to pay tuition for college courses they take under special programs.
  • An escort stands accused of manslaughter in the case of a Google executive who died of a heroin overdose on his yacht, the LA Times is reporting.
  • And now the World Health Organization says that all sexually active gay men should be taking HIV drugs to stave off the infection.

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.