Iowa City Daily Links: Mayor Q&A, An Audit Request Gently Rebuked, and Guys in Stiletto Heels

From This Site

I have a question and answer profile of another Iowa City council candidate up. Today, it's .

Meet , a cute cat that's our Patch.com adopt this pet of the week.

We have a fine Julie Staub photo gallery up from .

Our Parent Talk question this week is on how to .

From Other Sites

Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette writes that the Iowa City School District's request for a state audit of its budget has been denied.

Madison Bennett of the Daily Iowan has a nice article on a surgeon/novelist from Iowa who visited Iowa City to greet old friends and promote a book.

The Iowa City Press-Citizen has a nice gallery up of some dudes walking in high heels -- for a good cause. Chastity Dillard of the Daily Iowan has a story about it.

A University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics therapist has pleaded guilty to an assault charge from his private life.

Finally I can feel semi-comfortable driving on Interstate 80 again, just in time for me to avoid it again all winter.

The Press-Citizen editorial board has a nice editorial on the potential SSMID levy.

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day: State Auditor David Vaudt recently sent a letter to the district saying the review that was requested by a public petition and by the district does not fall within the scope of the type of work his office does.

The district announced this summer it had discovered $2 million in bookkeeping errors and that it was fined $25,000 by the Internal Revenue Service for making a late payment on payroll taxes last spring.

Vaudt said that while those are “significant” mistakes, the district has acknowledged them and said they were caused by human error. Trying to find out how the errors happened would be within the scope of an operational or internal control review, he said.