Remembering Dear Abby: Iowa City Daily News Links, Jan. 18

Friday. Three day weekend. Impromptu dance in celebration!

On to the Links!

Adam Sullivan of the Iowa City Press-Citizen reports on parents of the Iowa City community school district's transition services program requesting that the district not move the program from Eastdale to the Roosevelt Elementary building.

The Iowa City Downtown District will give their opinion on the city's proposed downtown parking changes, reports Lee Hermiston with the Iowa City Press-Citizen.

Dr. Terry Wahls spoke at a Iowa City Chamber of Commerce Blue Zones event about how a change in diet changed her life. (Iowa City Press-Citizen)

Democratic Party Chair Sue Dvorsky will be among those marching at President Obama's inauguration. (Press-Citizen via Associated Press)

Iowa has received a federal grant to help implement the health insurance exchange mandated under Obamacare. (Press-Citizen via Associated Press)

Remembering Dear Abby columnist and Iowa native Pauline Phillips after her death this week. (Waterloo Courier)

The Iowa Athletic Department budget has finished in the negative for the first time in six years. (Press-Citizen)

Gov. Branstad in his initial budget proposal said that there would be know allowable growth changes until his education reforms pass. Iowa Senate Democrats said, yeah, we want 4 percent. (Des Moines Register)

The Iowa Legislature called it a wrap on week one. (Des Moines Register)

Sad to see, Amana Bakery closing down. (Press-Citizen)

A Coralville resident was sentenced for trying to defraud her way into receiving flood-recovery funding. (Press-Citizen)

Daily Links Featured Excerpt of the Day:

Even though Dear Abby signed off on her advice column years ago, it never felt like we got to say goodbye. Her daughter Jeanne slipped in and continued dispensing advice.

Mom, meanwhile, was silent -- struggling with Alzheimer's. When family members announced Thursday that she had died, it felt final, oddly enough.

The era of Ann and Abby -- the advice sisters from Sioux City -- had ended. Never mind that their words of wisdom continue to be quoted even today, a decade after Ann died and Abby passed the torch.

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