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.
- Roughly five million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act health care plans.
