This morning’s required reading.
- Mayor Tom Barrett officially announced he’s running for a fourth term as mayor. In our December issue, we tallied up his successes and failures over his 12-year tenure.
- The Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service has a video profile of Lester Carter, who is known in his North Side neighborhood as Doctor Carter thanks to his longstanding pharmacy. While he doesn’t own the pharmacy anymore, that hasn’t stopped him from working there.
- One Dallas resettlement agency is defying the Texas governor’s orders to stop accepting Syrian refugees, reports the Los Angeles Times.
- Google has partnered with more than 60 performing arts groups to bring their performances to the masses through its Cultural Institute.
- Wired digs into the rising cost of medicine and how the prices can be so easily manipulated.
