Iowa City Daily Links: June 29

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:

The Iowa City School Board approved their elementary school redistricting plan last night, and, as always, weren't very happy about it.

This preview article has some background about the complaints about the decision.

The Daily Iowan was in Bettendorf because Bettendorf is awesome. Also, I imagine, because the President of the United States .

Julie Staub's Iowa City 365 project reached its .

, an adorable rabbit, is Iowa City Patch's adopt this pet of the week.

From Other Sites:

Lee Hermiston of The Press-Citizen writes about the academic exploits of a perfect ACT scoring City High student.

Ian Stewart of the Daily Iowan writes about a local summit on wind power.

Zachary Pound of the Daily Iowan scribes a ditty regarding the lifes and times of a UI professor and his flight software development.

Steve Woodhouse of the Pella Chronicle writes about Sarah Palin's visit to the tulip city to see her biopic.

William Petroski of the Des Moines Register writes about the Chairman of Amtrak lobbying in support of funding for a passenger train line from Iowa City to Chicago.

The battle over property tax reform (particularly commercial) remains the biggest hurdle to passing the state budget, writes Lynn Campbell for Iowapolitics.com.

Daily Links Quotes of the Day: For University of Iowa Provost P. Barry Butler, a board member of the association, the question driving the summit is, “How better can we engage universities [in wind energy]?”

“It’s a give-and-take type of relationship,” said Butler, who teaches courses about wind power. “Not just, ‘Give us your research money.’"