Today is August 2, 2012. On this date in 1876, Wild Bill Hickok was shot and killed during a poker game in Deadwood in the Dakota Territory.

* CD: "Here's a couple of things to keep the appetite for all things Walkergate whetted"

* MJS [paywall]: Wisconsin native helps U.S. women to rowing medal

* FFL: "Voting early, either in person at municipal clerks’ offices or by requesting an absentee ballot, makes civic participation and exercising the right to vote something citizens can do in their own time and on their own terms."

* TDP: Mayor Soglin and Gov. Walker discuss Madison's portion of Wisconsin shared revenue.

* DC: Montee Ball attacked on University Avenue

* Soglin: "It is not every day that a city has an opportunity to vie for a $5 million prize as it works to improve the lives of its citizens, but that is what New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has recently announced."

* CT [paywall]: Mayor Soglin, city staff to scrutinize revived Edgewater hotel plan

* MT: Naming Beer With Lake Louie’s Tom Porter

* TCO: Locavore haven Giornata opens on Park Street