Morning Links for July 25 2014

Morning Links for July 25 2014

What we’re reading on this Friday morning. Could the old Edwardo’s Pizza in Downtown Milwaukee become a high-rise apartment building? That’s what a Chicago developer has planned, according to the Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin attorney general candidate Ismael Ozanne, the district attorney in Dane County, is struggling to raise campaign funds and then account for them properly, the Associated Press is reporting. In other state news from the AP, briefs commenting on Wisconsin and Indiana’s appellate case deciding the fate of each state’s ban on gay marriage are voluminous and varied, citing “political theory, social stability and even biblical texts.” Happy…

What we’re reading on this Friday morning.

  • Could the old Edwardo’s Pizza in Downtown Milwaukee become a high-rise apartment building? That’s what a Chicago developer has planned, according to the Journal Sentinel.

  • Wisconsin attorney general candidate Ismael Ozanne, the district attorney in Dane County, is struggling to raise campaign funds and then account for them properly, the Associated Press is reporting.

  • In other state news from the AP, briefs commenting on Wisconsin and Indiana’s appellate case deciding the fate of each state’s ban on gay marriage are voluminous and varied, citing “political theory, social stability and even biblical texts.”

  • Happy ending to a creepy story: Police in California have located the woman who was leaving porcelain dolls on the doorsteps of young girls (who happened to vaguely resemble the dolls). Turns out the woman was just a collector who wanted to downsize her collection.

  • Google is officially buying the video game-streaming website Twitch.tv for $1 billion. Excuse me, I’m going to go start a Twitch/Tumblr/Snapchat knockoff.

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.