What we’re reading:
- The state Democrats have proposed a bill that would create a student loan financing authority.
- Have you heard that The Rolling Stones are playing at the Summerfest grounds tonight?
- The U.S. women’s soccer team handily beat Columbia last night in the World Cup tournament. They play China on Friday.
- The Speaker of Mississippi’s House of Representatives called for the removal of the Confederate flag from their state’s flag.
- Sources tell the Washington Post Governor Walker has at least $20 million in various coin purses in the event he decides to enter the 2016 presidential race. A fundraising email sent from “Scott Walker Inc. Testing the Waters” this morning says, “The Governor might not run if people like you don’t support him.”

