Morning Links for March 13, 2015

Morning Links for March 13, 2015

What we’re reading on this Friday morning. If you haven’t seen it yet, Bruce Murphy at UrbanMilwaukee.com takes on what he sees as Gov. Scott Walker’s pattern of knee-jerk legislation. The Cap Times gives the background story on the “Insiders” series at WisPolitics.com, which has grown to eight videos. Can’t we all just get along? As long as we’re linking Madison media, the WEDC is back in hot water (if it ever got out). The New York Post on a journalist who went undercover and became involved with “my ISIS boyfriend.” An effort is afoot to increase the tobacco purchasing…

What we’re reading on this Friday morning.

  • If you haven’t seen it yet, Bruce Murphy at UrbanMilwaukee.com takes on what he sees as Gov. Scott Walker’s pattern of knee-jerk legislation.
  • The Cap Times gives the background story on the “Insiders” series at WisPolitics.com, which has grown to eight videos. Can’t we all just get along?
  • As long as we’re linking Madison media, the WEDC is back in hot water (if it ever got out).
  • The New York Post on a journalist who went undercover and became involved with “my ISIS boyfriend.”
  • An effort is afoot to increase the tobacco purchasing age to 21. A study found such a move would immediately cut sales by about 2 percent and drive down usage among teenagers.

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.