Local Animal Care Provider Charged with Animal Cruelty: Iowa City Daily News Links, Oct. 2

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Vanessa Miller of the Gazette reports that a local animal care provider was cited several times for animal cruelty due to unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

Lee Hermiston of the Iowa City Press-Citizen was on hand at a Johnson County Justice Center forum on Monday and noted a lack of opposition voices.

According to the Daily Iowan Reader from today, the Justice Center opponents have their own Facebook page.

Adam Sullivan of the Press-Citizen writes that Iowa City schools are struggling to meet No Child Left Behind test goals.

Speaking of the Justice Center and the Press-Citizen, Justice Center advocate Lonny Pulkrabek will be doing participating in a Liveblog on their site tomorrow.

Brent Griffiths of the Daily Iowan was at the open house for the Riverfront Crossings development project and wrote up a report on it.

Eric Clark of the Daily Iowan was at an Obama for America early voting event featuring Sandra Fluke and actor Tate Donovan yesterday.

University of Iowa Quickcare has opened up a new clinic in the Iowa City/Coralville area. (Press-Citizen)

Dry conditions have led to an early harvest this year. (Press-Citizen)

Iowa state revenues went up in September. (Des Moines Register)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

Misha Goodman, Director of the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center, said police and animal control officers were called to the address after one of the dogs on her property escaped through a hole in the fence and ran onto First Avenue.

Upon arrival, officers found 12 dogs, seven of which were being kept outside without shelter and in unsanitary conditions including excessive feces, according to a criminal complaint. Goodman said the dogs were being held in by a fence with holes, and the yard was mostly dirt.

She said there were two inflatable swimming pools filled with feces.

“It was like it had been picked up and put in the open pools,” Goodman said.

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