Iowa City School District Admits Open Records Faux Pas, Remembering a UI Student who Died in Afghanistan: Iowa City Daily Links, March 5

0 to 55. I'm not talking about a car accelerating, I'm talking about how quickly Iowa's high temperature is going to change today. Bye bye snow.

On to the links!

From this Site

We have our summary of the last week up this morning in our weekly pick o' the Patches.

Our reader's choice Iowa City yoga contest . Be sure to vote if you haven't already.

, our adopt this pet of the week. He's got a sad look on his face all the time, but loves to hang around people.

An Iowa City woman was for allegedly punching another woman and stealing her phone over the weekend.

From other Sites

The big story over the weekend by the Iowa City Press-Citizen's Josh O'Leary was the Iowa City School District admitting wrongdoing in withholding open records. The admission was part of a settlement with two citizens who filed a lawsuit against the district, and is of course another in a long line of bad news items to come out about the district in the last year.

Speaking of the Iowa City School District, Superintendent Steve Murley is probably loving the timing of this, but in an effort to increase transparency with the public the school board has instituted an online poll of Murley's performance so far. The poll is happening this month, writes Alesha Crews of the Press-Citizen.

The Daily Iowan has some good coverage here and here on a former University of Iowa student who died in combat in Afghanistan.

Oakdale Boulevard is eventually going to wind its way down to N. Dubuque Street, growing into a busy arterial for business and traffic, writes Mitch Schmidt of the Press-Citizen.

In other road news, Washington Street is going to become a two-way street soon.

Occupy Iowa City will not have to pay for damages to College Green Park that happened as a result of the occupation.

Coralville is joining in to help pay for the new Iowa City Animal Shelter.

Congrats to the Iowa City West High girls basketball team for winning the state basketball championship this weeking. Apparently there's even a music video about it.

Congrats to West High School's math team for finishing first in a math league competition.

Iowa City Daily Links (Excerpt of the Day)

Online court records show Stone and Gurwell’s lawyer, Wallace Taylor, filed a motion to dismiss the case Monday. Stone said that under the agreement, the district admits to not following open records laws and will pay the plaintiffs’ court expenses of $4,770.

“The district acknowledges the documents Dr. Stone and Mr. Gurwell requested between August 2009 and April 2011 were subject to the Iowa Open Records Act and should have been provided to them without the need for litigation,” the district said in a statement to the plaintiffs, which Stone provided to the Press-Citizen. “The district has recently taken substantive steps to improve its handling of open records requests from the public, which should dramatically reduce the likelihood of similar litigation in the future.”