North Corridor Parents Bristle at School Funding Reallocation Plans: Iowa City Daily News Links, Sept. 17

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From this Site

Here are the football (fan) arrests from Saturday's game between the Hawkeyes and Panthers.

Here are tailgating photos from before the game featuring University of Iowa and Northern Iowa fans, who I must say were having a pleasant relaxing time together.

Police are still investigating the cause of a roll over accident that killed an Iowa City teen yesterday.

In today's Daily Iowan Reader, transfer Hawkeye fullback Mark Weisman has earned his preseason nickname.

In our Patch Poll this week we're asking if mandatory fees are a way around raising tuition.

In our Parent Talk this week, we ask if there are consequences to sleep training your child.

From Other Sites

Adam Sullivan of the Iowa City Press-Citizen was at a meeting of Coralville and North Liberty parents yesterday and noted they weren't too pleased about the idea being kicked around by the school board to use the sales tax money they thought was designated to a third high school for new elementary schools instead.

Here's the KCRG report from that meeting if you don't have a Press-Citizen subscription.

Biden and Ryan are in the state this week, neither coming that close to Iowa City. (Des Moines Register)

Steve Gravelle of the Gazette writes about the trend of small towns in Iowa relying more on county sheriff's departments for protection.

Mackenzie Elmer has a nice article for IowaWatch has an interesting article about how Iowa municipalities could be doing a better job at taking advantage of programs that incentivize cleaning up areas of contaminated land.

Here's an interesting article by Tara Bannow of the Press-Citizen about energy companies selling discount trees to further their own interests. That's some corporate self-interest I can get behind.

Josh O'Leary of the Press-Citizen writes that the University of Iowa arts community is attempting to promote events while still being scattered by the 2008 flood.

The Press-Citizen introduces us to the new head of the Downtown District.

An Iowa City school bus monitor was dismissed last week for undisclosed safety reasons.

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

At the end of the meeting, the group agreed that they wanted it to be clear that they do not want the school board to choose between improving elementary schools and building a third high school -- but putting together a comprehensive plan that addresses all the district's issues.

"This is not about pinning one side of the district against the other side of the district," said North Liberty resident Jen Greer. "We don't want the riffs that already exist to grow wider and we're also not here to attack one side or the other."

And school board member Tuyet Dorau, who attended Sunday's meeting, said she felt it would be wrong for the board to make a decision on where the SILO funds will go without holding public forums on the issue, adding she hopes the board is able to come to a decision the reunites the district.

"I think our community has become divided, and I think it's the responsibility of the board to unify the district as a whole." Dorau said. "And I think if we continue as we have been we will not be doing our job."

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