Iowa City Daily Links: June 25

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

New Patch contributor Yale Cohn will be regularly sharing his television shows on this site. Check out this interview that features, among others, very well known indie rock personalities .

A great week for music performance galleries this week. Here's another gallery from visit to the Englert Theatre.

Party in the Park officially kicked off Thursday night and Patch was to write about it.

Not a Patch generated piece, but I think you should check out this schedule for the Iowa City Music Festival happening this weekend.

From Other Sites

An interesting story by Emily Schettler for the Iowa City Press-Citizen on a new supercomputer at the University of Iowa.

There appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel for the budget discussion in Des Moines, according to Rod Boshart for the Gazette.

After initially facing a much worse fate, former University of Iowa football player Cedric Everson was sentenced to serve seven days in jail for a 2007 dorm room assault, writes Erin Jordan for the Gazette.

State budget cuts have and will hit the University of Northern Iowa the hardest of the three regents universities, writes Diane Heldt for the Gazette.

The Minnesotan pair of presidential candidates former Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Rep. Michelle Bachmann improved their standings in the polls, but nobody is really pulling way from the pack, writes Jennifer Agiesta for the Associated Press.

Thaddeus McCotter was the Third Man, or should I say, the secret sixth bidder in the Iowa Straw Poll lot bidding process, writes Jason Clayworth for the Des Moines Register. Cue the zither!

Links Quote of the Day: “We think it’s very unwise at a time when you have over 100,000 Iowans trying to seek work to shut points of access to employers and unemployment counseling down to these workers who need these services,” said Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, co-leader of a House-Senate conference committee that forged compromise language this week.