Morning Links for Nov. 8 2013

Morning Links for Nov. 8 2013

Morning Links here with some news and views you may have overlooked. Lives updates, Storify-style, on the massive Typhoon assaulting the Philippines, from Z News in India. Spanish train maker Talgo is suing the state for $66 million. Wisconsin backed out of a deal to buy two or more high-speed trains from the company that located in Milwaukee in 2011. The Associated Press reports. Jim Stingl discusses in detail his reaching 1,000 Twitter followers after only tweeting 120 times. Speaking of Twitter, could we be headed into another tech/Internet bubble as investors dine on fresh shares of the company? The New…

Morning Links here with some news and views you may have overlooked.

  • Spanish train maker Talgo is suing the state for $66 million. Wisconsin backed out of a deal to buy two or more high-speed trains from the company that located in Milwaukee in 2011. The Associated Press reports.
  • Jim Stingl discusses in detail his reaching 1,000 Twitter followers after only tweeting 120 times.
  • Somewhere out beyond Mars, an asteroid thing is spewing something hot and spinning around wildly. Officials at NASA have even used the word “freakish.” One of those moments when they say, “See, this is why you give us all that money.”

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.