Morning Links for November 3, 2015

Morning Links for November 3, 2015

Raw milk, Candy Crush, and an Amazon bookstore.

The news you can use.

Try as they might, Wisconsin state Senate Republicans may not have enough enough votes to pass legislation that would decrease the amount of publicly available campaign donor information and increase the amount certain donors can give to political parties and campaign groups.

The Assembly will likely pass a bill from Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette) that would allow pharmacies to dispense the heroin overdose drug Narcan with a “general order” from a physician. And following a weekend that saw six overdose deaths in Milwaukee, city officials are considering adding a line to the budget that would allow for “a person to focus solely on stopping so many people from dying after overdosing,” reports CBS 58.

Amazon is opening a bookstore in Seattle.

The company that makes the mobile game Candy Crush was just purchased by another massive game publisher for $5.9 billion.

Raw milk supporters and a Greenville, Wis. legislator are said to be helping craft another bill that would allow the sale of raw milk directly from a farm. We wrote about the contentious issue at length here. 

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.