Our Morning Links are sure to do more for you than six shots of espresso.
- The Wisconsin State Fair begins today, July 31. That means food-on-a-stick, cream puffs, Aretha Franklin, cream puffs, Lady Antebellum, and cream puffs. Of course you want more info. Click here for it.
- Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a 2009 law that upholds a registry for same-sex couples.
- Volunteers and police officers canvassed the streets of West Allis last night to count the number of homeless people. The count is crucial in that it allows the state to get money to combat the homeless problem.
- The death toll for the Ebola outbreak in west Africa is rising, but the scientist who helped discover the virus says it is “unlikely” the virus would trigger a “widespread epidemic outside the region” and that he would “happily sit next to an infected person on a train.”
- Columbia University scientists say a ship discovered four years ago at the Ground Zero site dates to 1773, three years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
