Morning Links for July 15 2014

Morning Links for July 15 2014

How better to start your Tuesday than with some wacky, enlightening news bits? As the presumed gubernatorial candidates present differing views of voucher schools, one Milwaukee nonprofit charter is doing – to the surprise of its critics – very well. Two of the country’s largest tobacco companies will soon become one, says The New York Times. To demonstrate the effects of smoking, an Eau Claire woman is being featured in a new TV advertisement by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in which she discusses the dangerous results of smoking throughout her pregnancy. You didn’t think you could…

How better to start your Tuesday than with some wacky, enlightening news bits?

  • As the presumed gubernatorial candidates present differing views of voucher schools, one Milwaukee nonprofit charter is doing – to the surprise of its critics – very well.
  • Two of the country’s largest tobacco companies will soon become one, says The New York Times.
  • To demonstrate the effects of smoking, an Eau Claire woman is being featured in a new TV advertisement by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in which she discusses the dangerous results of smoking throughout her pregnancy.
  • You didn’t think you could look at someone while stabbing a watermelon and get away with it, did you?
  • The price of your UberX ride is about to get cheaper as the company hopes it can slash prices low enough to compete with the cost of car ownership.

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.