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Iowa Citians Seek Signatures to Challenge TIF Funding for Moen Project: Iowa City Daily News Links, June 2

A quick rundown of today's local news.

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Police are looking for info near Broadway Street.

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What would an 800 student third high school look like? How would it affect the district? .

Three semi crashes in one week was enough for the Iowa DOT .

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We have a preview up about Iowa Arts Festival, which  continues today.

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The City of Iowa City released more info on the landfill fire Thursday and says it expects .

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In a impactful state supreme court decision, a Central Iowa man will be allowed to a woman for the return of child support money after he accused her of fraudently claiming he was the father of her child.

Nick Bergus, a local multimedia producer, got a mention in the New York Times along with a humorous anecdote about Facebook.

Josh O'Leary of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes about the city's attempts to develop the downtown by in a way returning to its old glory.

Mitchell Schmidt of the Press-Citizen profiled Dan Dolan, Republican candidate vying to be the challenger to U.S. Rep Dave Loebsack (assuming he wins his primary) this fall.

Schmidt also writes some Iowa City residents are gathering signatures for a petition that would ask that TIF funding for a new Moen high-rise building project be put to a public vote.

Alesha Crews of the Press-Citizen also wrote about the 800 student high school report, speaking with assistant superintendent Ann Feldmann about the plan.

Iowa City West's boys soccer team dispatched Ames in the state semifinal.

This May marked the most state taxes ever collected in Iowa's history.

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Net state tax receipts collected in May were the most of any month in Iowa history.

The $794.5 million deposited in the state treasury after refunds broke a previous record of $791.1 million in net receipts that were reported in May 2007, according to the Legislative Services Agency. The monthly growth was just 1.6 percent because it came on the heels of May 2011’s $782 million, which was the second-largest tax collection month ever until last month’s total was tallied and reported by LSA officials on Friday.

“It’s good news. I can’t spin it in a bad way,” said Jeff Robinson, a tax analyst in the LSA’s fiscal division. “All these numbers look good.”

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