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Iowa City Daily Links. August 3.

Every day Iowa City Patch will post links to some of the stories in the area you may have missed, and a few more that will be important to know as you start your day.

As always, I'll start with links to stories on this site, but then I'll venture out into the world of other publications. Feel free to suggest links to stories that I might have missed and I can add them during the day.

From Iowa City Patch

Ron Paul was in Iowa City yesterday at the Sheraton, and he was .

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Read  and of our story on the influx of Chinese students to Iowa City. The story focuses on why these students are coming here, what they think of Iowa City and the challenges they have faced adapting to a new culture.

A new blogger is debuting today on Iowa City Patch. Meet Dave Schwartz, from the perspective of being a father in Iowa City.

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Paul Deaton has a blog entry up today about the that are far, far off the New York Times bestseller's list.

Meet our Adopt this Pet of the Week -- Jorie, the .

We have a about the city council deciding whether to put cameras on traffic lights in Iowa City. With nearly 100 votes, the vote is pretty close to 50/50 approve versus disapprove at the moment.

From Other Sites

An interesting article from Rob Daniel of the Iowa City Press-Citizen about a Coralville family who may or may not face deportation after they thought they had received asylum.

Lee Hermiston of the Press-Citizen was at one of Iowa City's National Night Out events last night.

B.A. Morelli of the Press-Citizen writes that the Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted to risk their mental health funding against recommendations by staff in a bid to get a correct bill from the state.

KCRG writes that Coralville parents were upset about the Coralville PD shutting down their children's lemonade stands during RAGBRAI. I imagine the kids will get over it faster than the parents will.

Longtime musician and radio personality Leo Greco of 600 WMT passed away Tuesday. He was 89.

The meat from the champion cow at the Johnson County Fair's Auction is going to be donated to the Johnson County Crisis Center, writes Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette.

Uncompensated healthcare in Iowa's hospitals was up 6 percent in Iowa in fiscal 2010, writes Rod Boshart of the Gazette.

The State Board of Regents will consider the realities of the tightened budget for universities at their Regents meetings in Cedar Falls today and tomorrow, writes Laura Millsaps of the Ames Tribune.

Daily Links Quote of the Day: (1) Dozens of people from the neighborhood turned out for the party, including 20-year-old Brandy Evans and her 10-month-old daughter C'niyah.

"It's an opportunity for me to meet people," Evans said, noting she was new to the neighborhood. "This is nice. This is really nice."

(2) She said she’d had Madison since the calf was three days old. She cried when she took it to auction, as she always does with her animals, because she considers them pets. Then, as she exited the auction ring, her dad told her about the donation.

“I was so sad, but I was very happy because it’s going to people who need it,” she said. “When I heard, the tears stopped.”


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