Morning Links for March 18 2014

Morning Links for March 18 2014

Think of these links as the bacon bits on your breakfast salad, and enjoy. Longtime Milwaukee Magazine writer Tyler Maas and sometime Milwaukee Magazine freelancer and former editor of the A.V. Club Matt Wild will launch their own web publication, the Milwaukee Record, on April 7. While we can hardly stop crying over the loss of these writers in our own publication, we’re very excited for the new venture. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is “working to kill” the passage of a bill that would force insurance companies to cover chemotherapy drugs in pill form just as they cover intravenous chemotherapy,…

Think of these links as the bacon bits on your breakfast salad, and enjoy.

  • Longtime Milwaukee Magazine writer Tyler Maas and sometime Milwaukee Magazine freelancer and former editor of the A.V. Club Matt Wild will launch their own web publication, the Milwaukee Record, on April 7. While we can hardly stop crying over the loss of these writers in our own publication, we’re very excited for the new venture.

  • Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is “working to kill” the passage of a bill that would force insurance companies to cover chemotherapy drugs in pill form just as they cover intravenous chemotherapy, which must be administered at a hospital. Vos has been set on killing the bill despite bipartisan support in the Assembly.

  • Putin has just signed a treaty to annex Crimea to Russia.

  • No Labels Problem Solvers: a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers who are working to discuss the issues of the day without the antagonistic relationship of their party labels.

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.