Morning Links for July 14, 2015

Morning Links for July 14, 2015

A couple who is feeding Milwaukee’s hungry with their own money, micro-lending and a certain presidential candidate.

What we’re reading:

  • Iran and six other countries, including the U.S., have reached a deal to limit the former’s nuclear abilities, a deal that presidential candidate Scott Walker has said he would undo immediately if elected president.
  • The Wisconsin State Journal interviews state legislators who have known Gov. Walker for a long time to see when they think the seeds of his presidential aspirations were planted.
  • And it wouldn’t be a presidential campaign kickoff without an after-party bash that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from many prominent Milwaukee and Wisconsin business people.
  • A couple in the city’s Metcalfe Park neighborhood has been serving meals to people in the community three times a week for more than 10 years. The self-funded project has served up to 400 meals in a single day. 
  • There’s a new name in micro-lending, Zidisha, and the bare-bones technology completely bypasses banks, says Wired.

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.