Touche, Big Brother. Iowa City Red-Light Traffic Camera Petition Declared Invalid...For Now: Iowa City Patch, April 17

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Nobody expects the City Clerk! Iowa City Clerk Marian Karr said Monday that the red-light traffic camera petition was 400 valid signatures short of being valid. Organizers of the petition say they are confident they can make up the difference in the alotted time, however. (The Gazette)

Keep your hands off our snail sex research funds! Tara Bannow of the Iowa City Press-Citizen reports on a conservative blogger fueled controversy over a University of Iowa study.

Adam Sullivan of the Press-Citizen writes that two local schools have been rated among the most challenging by an education publication.

Iowa Senate approves its multimillion Iowa mental health reform package. (Des Moines Register)

A nice video feature and story on an Iowa doctor who jumped in to help during the Boston Marathon bombing aftermath. (Des Moines Register)

Iowa is a top five state for Localvores. Somehow defeated by North Dakota and their flat flat land and oil rush. This must not stand! (Des Moines Register)

Things got a bit heated in the Iowa State House on the topic of state money for food banks. (Des Moines Register)

Steve King cautions against immigration reform after the Boston Marathon bombing. Sort of a stretch until it's determined it was an American citizen who did the bombing, but alright.

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Petitioners have two days after receiving a mailed certificate of insufficiency from the city to declare their intent to get more signatures, and then they would have 15 more days to try to get enough people to sign the petition.

One of the petition organizers said that notice would be given this afternoon.

“We think we can make up the difference easily,” said Aleksey Gurtovoy of Iowa City.

He and Martha Hampel of Iowa City led the petition drive over the past six months. Gurtovoy said getting signatures from 2,500 registered voters, as opposed to eligible voters, was a tough task during the winter.

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