Morning Report: Wine, Picket Lines and Sponge Bob

The Des Moines Register interviews Urbandale superintendent Doug Stilwell about Urbandale high school students' average ACT score, which is slightly above the state average.

Register reporter Tiffany DeMasters blogs about employees picketing Monday at Urbandale child care center Imagination and Education Station over problems getting paid.

Urbandale's first wine and food tasting event is coming up Sept. 29. Read about it on the Urbandale Chamber of Commerce website.

File this WHO-TV report under the cautionary tale category: Never get in car with people you don't know, even if you think they are just women.

Radio Iowa found a moving clip of Paul Simon singing at a 9/11 memorial in New York. You'll think about the lyrics of "Sounds of Silence" differently in this context.

Just for fun, take KCCI-TV's  "SpongeBob" poll based on an article about the cartoon's effect on kids in a very small study.

KCCI-TV also has a cute photo of Taylor Hale, the 14-year-old Waukee girl injured Friday night when she was thrown from the hood of a car.