Morning Links for Nov. 14 2014

Morning Links for Nov. 14 2014

What we’re reading on this Friday morning. Kris Zocco, a person of interest in the disappearance of Kelly Dwyer, was found guilty in his child porn case. He still faces drug charges and intense pressure from Dwyer’s family. A Wisconsin Public Radio investigation found that only about 10 percent of sand mining operations in the state have installed equipment to monitor the amount of dust and particulate air pollution they generate. A new report on the security blunders that allowed a man to storm through the front door of the White House is “shocking,” according to the Christian Science Monitor.…

What we’re reading on this Friday morning.

  • Kris Zocco, a person of interest in the disappearance of Kelly Dwyer, was found guilty in his child porn case. He still faces drug charges and intense pressure from Dwyer’s family.
  • A Wisconsin Public Radio investigation found that only about 10 percent of sand mining operations in the state have installed equipment to monitor the amount of dust and particulate air pollution they generate.
  • A new report on the security blunders that allowed a man to storm through the front door of the White House is “shocking,” according to the Christian Science Monitor.
  • Time ruminates on youth, early success and how we might be furthering ageism by going bananas for super-young stars like Taylor Swift. Maybe. (“… to be fair, the Beatles weren’t much older than Taylor Swift.”)
  • You know all those email scams you laugh about? According to Google, they’re surprisingly effective at getting people to hand over personal information.

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.