Iowa City News Links: Johnson County Officials Plead for New Jail, Chinese Students are Aplenty in Iowa, and TIF tsking Continues

As usual, I will provide a list of links from this site before venturing into the media world beyond. If you have any links you think would be good to add during the day, feel free to let me know.

From this Site

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From Other Sites

Tara Bannow of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes that Johnson County officials are still making their pitch for a new Johnson County Justice Center, to rescue the aging courthouse and tiny jail. Look for more of that to come as they gear up for a potential vote on the issue in November, 2012.

Coincedentally enough, Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette also wrote an article on this same issue.

Rod Boshart, of the Gazette, who doesn't believe in paragraphs, writes that a study showed that same sex marriage has been a financial boon to the state of Iowa so far.

Julia Jessen of the Daily Iowan previews the Afro-Cuban Jazz summit, happening this week.

Asmaa Elkeurti of the Daily Iowan writes that the city of Iowa City will have rising pension costs as another budget hurdle to deal with.

Diane Heldt of the Gazette writes that there are an increased number of Chinese students at all three Regents Universities.

Emily Schettler of the Press-Citizen reports that the developer of the Iowa River Landing defended Coralville's aggressive techniques to attract business -- one -- to get the venture off the ground.

Radio Iowa reports that TIF concerns are going to continue to be debated, even at the state level.

The first snow also brought the first spate of auto accidents, reports the Daily Iowan.

Daily Links Excerpt (of the Day)

It’s one of a handful of similar findings officials are using to fuel support for a new $39 million justice center that would house the county jail and courthouse, buildings they argue are inefficient, costly and unsafe.

“We’re lucky that an incident hasn’t taken place that is so catastrophic that it would knock our socks off into the litigation and the costs associated with that, versus the cost of building a new jail,” Johnson County Supervisor Terrence Neuzil said. “We’re very lucky we haven’t had a catastrophic situation which would involve being sued to a point where $39 million would look very small.”