Morning Links for December 1, 2015

Morning Links for December 1, 2015

Drug pricing, Mayor Barrett’s re-election bid, and the Texas agency defying orders to stop accepting Syrian refugees.

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.

 

Claire Hanan worked at the magazine as an editor from 2012-2017. She edited the Culture section and wrote stories about all sorts of topics, including the arts, fashion, politics and more. In 2016, she was a finalist for best profile writing at the City and Regional Magazine Awards for her story "In A Flash." In 2014, she won the the Milwaukee Press gold award for best public service story for editing "Handle With Care," a service package about aging in Milwaukee. Before all this, she attended the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and New York University's Summer Publishing Institute.