Morning Links for June 24 2013

Morning Links for June 24 2013

Start your engines. Get fueled up for a great Monday by reading these exciting links. In today’s economy, piecing together several “gigs” instead of a full-time, contract job is becoming the norm. See how one journalist is doing it on the Awl. Paula Deen is out at the Food Network, reports The Huffington Post. The popular cooking show host admitted last week to using racial stirs, prompting the network to cancel her show when her contract runs out at the end of this month. Not all agree that was a good idea. John McWhorter at TIME thinks she should get…

Start your engines. Get fueled up for a great Monday by reading these exciting links.

  • In today’s economy, piecing together several “gigs” instead of a full-time, contract job is becoming the norm. See how one journalist is doing it on the Awl.
  • Paula Deen is out at the Food Network, reports The Huffington Post. The popular cooking show host admitted last week to using racial stirs, prompting the network to cancel her show when her contract runs out at the end of this month. Not all agree that was a good idea. John McWhorter at TIME thinks she should get her job back.
  • Wisconsin ranks 12th in the country in terms of children’s health, according to the Journal Sentinel. Even so, many families and children remain worse off than before the economic crisis.
  • The Atlantic Cities has photos of this weekend’s Super Moon from cities across the world, though Milwaukee is not one of them.
  • The New York Times reports on the overlooked male soldier as a victim of sexual assault in the military.

Abby Callard was an assistant editor at Milwaukee Magazine from 2012-2014. Her journalistic pursuits have seen her covering the Hispanic community in mid-Missouri, politics in Washington, D.C., art and culture for Smithsonian magazine, the social enterprise space in India and health care in Chicago. Abby has a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.