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Satirical Photo to the Editor: Too Bad Swine Lots Can't Block City Development, Past and Present
An Iowa City Patch read submits an imaginative way to block development in Iowa City, inspired by the location of the Newport Road swine lot controversy.

Reader Jim Calkins explains his photo further:
So here is  "Cliffs Swine Confinement Lot" in from of the Cliffs Apartments. Now, Jim Glasgow was involved in city controversy 30 years ago about his Cliffs Apartment, the Cliffs are back in the news about mud slides, and now Glasgow is point man on the Newport Road Swine Confinement Lot as a tactic to block development, so I liked my cartoon a lot... a swine lot.
Editor's Note. The above is a letter submitted to the editor. If you would like to submit a letter to the editor, e-mail it to me at stephen.schmidt@patch.com, or post it directly to the site by clicking this link.
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