City Warming Up to Urban Chickens?: Iowa City Daily News Links, July 27

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We're wrapping our RAGBRAI coverage. We have a slideshow with photos from riders updating . Justin Torner has added more photos to his . RAGBRAI vet Brian Morelli also has his from the ride.

Iowa City police are asking for help in

on some University of Iowa Hawkeyes competing in the London Olympic games.

Beth Dalbey of West Des Moines Patch wrote a nice story catching up with the woman in Iowa.

Here from the Prime Time League championship game.

We've launched our Readers' Choice reboot. for a variety of different categories.

In today's , the city may be Iowa

From Other Sites

Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette writes that a multi-use parking facility project has been delayed.

Adam Sullivan with the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes that a mock election has-- surprise surprise -- President Obama winning Johnson County.

Sullivan also writes that it is unclear when the decision on federal funding for University of Iowa flood recovery will be determined.

Here are some events to check out this weekend from Jim Musser. (Press-Citizen)

An Iowa City man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture meth. (Press-Citizen)

The city's decision to providing Marc Moen TIF funding for his high-rise building project hasn't been very popular in some quarters, but here's one person who thinks it was a good idea. (Press-Citizen)

Bobby Jindal told voters in Iowa not to be distracted by Obama's "distortions" about Romney. Meanwhile, Tom Harkin says Obama can win the election by focusing on the middle class. (Des Moines Register)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

City staffers, in a memorandum released Thursday, said they want to delay the project for one year, in part because of uncertainty over whether there is enough demand for the parking spots.

The structure is to be at the corner of Linn and Court streets south of downtown. That’s an area known as Riverfront Crossings, which city officials hope to see redeveloped in the coming decades. City officials have pointed to the parking facility as a big part of those plans.

The preliminary concept called for a $48 million structure with 575 parking spaces, nearly 100 housing units aimed at young professionals and small amounts of office and retail space. The city would own the parking ramp portion, which it estimated earlier this year would cost $15.65 million to build. The rest would be privately developed.

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