The Pink Slime Posse Strikes Back: Iowa City Daily News Links, March 29

I could stare at this realtime wind map all day.

On to the Links!

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There is an important RAGBRAI deadline coming up that you should .

We have launched our very own Eastern Iowa Patch book club. Join in and with us.

Patch blogger Dave Schwartz wrote about what we can teach our kids from what Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin .

The Mission Creek Music Festival is in full swing, we want to know who you are .

Don't know what the hype about the Hunger Games is all about? Well some local junior high and elementary school students with Iowa City Patch.

How the death of a pet to your children? That's what we're asking on this week's Parent Talk.

Meet Swisher the , our Iowa City Adopt this Pet of the Week.

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Proponents of pink slime are striking back, including Iowa's governor, arguing that the processed meat product isn't unhealthy, and banning it would increase the price of meat.

Mitchell Schmidt of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes that one food vendor who was turned down for an application has criticized the process for favoring incumbent vendors too much.

After much ado about nothing, U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack now has a Democratic primary challenger for his second congressional seat.

Here's a preview of the Universit of Iowa's Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival, happening this weekend.

Vice President Joe Biden was in Davenport yesterday, and ripped Republican presumptive presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his views on manufacturing.

This strangely warm weather is also good for our bee friends.

Here are two Daily Iowan articles on the Mission Creek Festival: one on its history, the other on its lesser known literary crawl.

Some well known artists will be performing at the Iowa City Arts Festival, writes Diana Nollen of the Gazette.

Legal action against Apartments Downtown continues, but has yet to bear fruit.

The Republican Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives says nobody wants higher gas prices at the moment, as the battle over the gas tax continues.

Lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer deaths in Iowa.

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

Attorney Christopher Warnock said Joseph and James Clark, who own a large property management company in Iowa City that goes by several names including Apartments Downtown and Apartments Near Campus, have a “systematized way of extracting money from tenants.”

Warnock said he wants a judge to force the Clark family, which he says owns hundreds of millions in assessed property and manages rentals for thousands of students, to clean up their leases and start treating renters fairly.

“This is a scandal for the city,” he said. “It’s an embarrassment to Iowa City that we are allowing this to go on.”

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