The beat goes on, and so do the Morning Links. Each is a carefully curated dispatch from the world of important things happening locally and abroad.
- Russia is selling fighter jets to Syria, according to ABC, and anti-craft missiles will likely be arriving sometime later this year, squawks Voice of America.
- The NYT says the solar industry is facing a “quality crisis” that has largely gone unpublicized.
- One of the challenges of supplying China’s swelling economy is getting enough pork, PBS has learned.
- AP says the much-touted and universal “Common Core” standards for Wisconsin’s schools are going back to the drawing board, at least briefly.
- A Wisconsin National Guard combat engineer who duct-taped an explosive to a pole and led a team of volunteer soldiers into harm’s way will receive the illustrious silver star commendation, the Journal Sentinel reports.
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Gov. Scott Walker will sign a bill this afternoon that weakens the Milwaukee County Board, though the package is less sweeping than some critics of the board’s structure had originally hoped for. Once again, AP has the skinny.
