Morning Links for May 23 2014

Morning Links for May 23 2014

What we’re reading this morning. Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says a federal judge could strike down the state’s ban on gay marriage, according to a Madison TV station. Next we go to the Hindustan Times for the story of a woman in Vietnam who burned herself alive to protest an offshore Chinese oil rig. NASA created a photo mosaic of the Earth using 36,422 selfies it received in honor of Earth Day. Gareth Edwards, the director of the recent Godzilla reboot, will direct the first Star Wars movie from Disney to take place “outside of the core episodic…

What we’re reading this morning.

  • Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says a federal judge could strike down the state’s ban on gay marriage, according to a Madison TV station.
  • Next we go to the Hindustan Times for the story of a woman in Vietnam who burned herself alive to protest an offshore Chinese oil rig.
  • Gareth Edwards, the director of the recent Godzilla reboot, will direct the first Star Wars movie from Disney to take place “outside of the core episodic saga,” according to Rolling Stone.

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.