Hawkeye Court Tenants Could Find Newly Built Digs Too Pricey: Iowa City Daily News Links, March 25

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On to the Links!

Tara Bannow of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes that the new Hawkeye Court apartments could be too costly for the current tenants to afford.

The Coalition Against the Shadow is marshalling its forces against the Moen Tower. They seek to quell their foe's progress in the land of Planning and Zoning. (the Gazette)

Adam Sullivan of the Press-Citizen writes about how freshman Iowa Representatives from the area are getting off to a fast start.

Luke Voelz of the Press-Citizen profiles an Iowa City company that aims to simplify work for radiologists. (Press-Citizen)

Voelz also writes that tourism picked up in the Iowa City area in late 2012. 

Terry Wahls talks about how her "caveman diet" saved her from multiple schlerosis. (Des Moines Register)

Another inmate has died in the Iowa Department of Corrections system in less than a week. (via the Iowa City Owl)

Iowa City is going to host yet another meeting about a levee. (Press-Citizen)

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Candis Hill has adorned the walls of her Hawkeye Court apartment in soft, pastel-colored paintings, photos of smiling family members and tiny flowers that seem to sprout from the corners of the room.

Charming as they may be, such frills can’t possibly hide the industrial-looking cinder blocks used to construct the complex more than four decades ago. Nor could any rug cover the aging linoleum flooring.

“It’s not like luxury or anything like that, but I’ve made it home over the past few years,” said Hill, a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, who has paid less than $500 per month for the two-bedroom apartment she’s lived in for the past five years.

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