Morning Links for Aug. 19, 2016

Morning Links for Aug. 19, 2016

Alice’s Garden, Dilbert, Scott Walker and Donald Trump.

What we’re reading on Friday morning.

The Associated Press does a short backgrounder on the Milwaukee officer who shot Sylville Smith.

Are you familiar with Alice’s Garden? WUWM has a longer piece on it.

U.S. Sen Ron Johnson, running for reelection, says the recent demonstrations show “well-intentioned” poverty programs have failed.

Dilbert’s own Scott Adams thinks Trump’s campaign will follow a three-act movie arc, and we’re just getting into the third part.

Wisconsin’s libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate. He’s our Gary Johnson.

Gov. Scott Walker says Trump should move past the “side show” issues. This just days after Walker introduced the Republican candidate in West Bend.

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.