Morning Links for July 12 2013

Morning Links for July 12 2013

Like sands through the hourglass, these are the Morning Links of our lives. Malala, the girl who survived a shooting by the Pakistani Taliban, will address the UN today on her 16th birthday, The Times of India reports. Now free of the State Department, Hillary Clinton is giving a lot of lucrative speeches to industry groups, according to The Washington Post. Men who said they were strip-searched by MPD illegally are now speaking out and have filed a civil suit, the Journal Sentinel says. Gov. Scott Walker compares the mining protesters who vandalized Gogebic Taconite equipment to “ninjas,” WISC-TV in Madison…

Like sands through the hourglass, these are the Morning Links of our lives.

  • Malala, the girl who survived a shooting by the Pakistani Taliban, will address the UN today on her 16th birthday, The Times of India reports.
  • Now free of the State Department, Hillary Clinton is giving a lot of lucrative speeches to industry groups, according to The Washington Post.
  • Men who said they were strip-searched by MPD illegally are now speaking out and have filed a civil suit, the Journal Sentinel says.
  • Gov. Scott Walker compares the mining protesters who vandalized Gogebic Taconite equipment to “ninjas,” WISC-TV in Madison reports.
  • Tammy Baldwin’s first bill in the U.S. Senate targets access to venture capital by small businesses, Wispolitics.com has learned.

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.