Iowa City Daily News Links: Occupy Iowa City Resumes Building Structure and Mayor Hayek Stumps for Railroad

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Occupy Iowa City continued building its structure at College Green Park after meeting with city officials, writes Matt Starns of the Daily Iowan.

Iowa City Mayor Matt Hayek was among those in Des Moines pushing for the renewal of plans for a passenger train from Chicago to Iowa City.

Mary Kate Knorr of the Daily Iowan writes that Newt Gingrich may be opening an Iowa City office soon.

There will be some Interstate 80 lane closures at the Dodge Street interchange due to road work.

Daily Links Excerpt (of the Day) He ordered construction "must cease immediately" until protesters submit a permit application for the use of College Green Park. Moran said in the memo he would consider the appropriateness of a temporary structure if the protesters submitted the application.

"We want to give it a fair shake," Moran told The Daily Iowan Monday. "We'll react based on what they say their intentions are."

Members of the group met Monday morning with city officials and formally applied for a permit to occupy the park, a decision that was ratified in the group's general assembly with little resistance — despite initial reservations previously expressed to The Daily Iowan by some protesters.

"They're being cooperative with us; we should be cooperative with them," said Stephany Hoffelt, an Occupy protester who was present at the assembly. "They're not really the enemy."