Coralville City Manager Questioned in Court on Von Maur Process: Iowa City Daily Links, March 22

It's almost April already? Yikes!

On to the Links!

From this Site

It was redistricting forum number two last night at Northwest Junior High. Read .

Tell us what you think of these new plans for the University of Iowa's rebuilt .

The first Hunger Games movie opens tonight. Here's what people in Iowa City in anticipation.

Sad news as a University of Iowa freshman over the weekend.

We're running a contest the next two weeks: Like Iowa City Patch on Facebook and you will a $100 gift card useable anywhere in Johnson County that accepts MasterCard.

How do you mothers out there balance career and family? We want to know in our Parent Talk this week.

It's March Madness time. We're asking what sports bar in Iowa City do you like to go to catch the ?

Meet Miss Lilly, a that is our adopt this pet of the week.

From Other Sites

Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette writes that the Coralville City Manager faced some tough questions in court Wednesday regarding Coralville enticing Von Maur to leave with TIF dollars, and the process that led up to it.

Diane Heldt of the Gazette wrote that the Board of Regents approved the budgets and proposed schematics for the University of Iowa's plans to replace the flood damaged Hancher, School of Music and School of Arts buildings.

Tara Bannow of the Press-Citizen writes about a new restaurant coming to Iowa City based on making your own salads.

The Daily Iowan has a preview up of the Iowa City Community Theatre's latest production.

Daily Iowan reporter Julia Jessen has profile up of bad boy essayist and UI professor John D'Agata.

Kristen East of the Daily Iowan reports about a concerted effort by safety advocates to reduce public intoxication arrests.

Higher education leaders looking for additional funding won't be pleased with this proposal.

Here's a Press-Citizen list of events not to miss this weekend. And the PC's Jim Musser has some shows you should see.

Garner Elementary's walking school bus was a success.

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

The New York Times describes John D'Agata as, "a wolf in journalist's clothing".

This is just one comment from a plethora of observations about the University of Iowa nonfiction writing professor's latest book, The Lifespan of a Fact.

"I haven't actually read the reviews directly," D'Agata said. "Partly because I'm teaching and I don't want to be distracted, and partly because I have a cheesy little ritual I go through a year after a book comes out where I read all of the reviews and make a goofy art project out of them."