A Rare Failure to Report Offense, Car Sharing Coming Here?, and Local Reactions to Planned Parenthood Controversy: Iowa City Daily Links, Feb. 3

Good luck to University of Iowa Dance Marathon tonight!

On to the links!

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We have a list of things for you to this weekend.

One of those things to do is a being held in Iowa City this weekend. Our own B.A. Morelli shared some of his experiences with home births. Feel free to share yours with us as well.

An Iowa City tackled the future planning for the city.

The Super Bowl is coming up this weekend. We want your take on , along with your best Super Bowl .

Meet , our adopt this pet of the week -- a loving tabby cat in need of a good home.

In our Parents Talk this week, we ask what parents do to handle a child who is .

The house and senate have set their budget targets for the 2013 budget, writes Rod Boshart of the Gazette.

In the good news department, traffic deaths fell 6.6 percent last year in Iowa.

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Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette writes that University of Iowa and Iowa City are interested in implementing a car sharing service for people who need a vehicle to run errands.

Julia Jessen of the Daily Iowan writes about the Second City comedy troupe visiting Iowa City this weekend.

Elise Dilger of the Daily Iowan reports on the Iowa City reaction to the Komen Foundation's decision to pull Planned Parenthood funding. That decision was actually reversed it was reported today.

Luke Voelz of the Daily Iowan writes that a charge against a the Broadway Neighborhood Center director for failing to report a report of sexual abuse against a minor to authorities is likely the first such reported charge in Johnson County. In fact, they're so rare, they're unheard of. The sexual abuse offense allegedly occurred at a Head Start program at the center.

Late arrive test assessment results are affecting school district planning, reports Alesha Crews of the Iowa City Press-Citizen.

Crews writes that the school board is still going to set their committee goals this coming Tuesday.

Tara Bannow of the Press Citizen reports that a bridge project to replace a bridge on Mahaffey Bridge Road is getting nearer to becoming a reality.

Speed limit signs are coming to Sand Road as a response to resident complaints about speeding vehicles.

Jennifer Jacobs of the Des Moines register has an account of the First Lady trying to whip up support of Iowa women via a conference call.

I have a feeling they wrote this article just so they write the headline for it.

A red-light traffic camera ban has made its way onto the House Floor.

Iowa City Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

Yet Johnson County Department of Human Services spokesman Roger Munns said the county has never had an individual facing these charges until now.

"The fact that nobody [at the Department of Human Services] can remember a similar charge makes it pretty unusual," he said. "It is a simple misdemeanor, meaning that might be one of the reasons prosecutors haven't pursued it in the past — some may have felt it was a low priority."

There may now be a heightened interest in child-abuse report cases following former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno's alleged failure to alert authorities of such abuse, he noted.