Construction Underway (in some respects)
The Iowa City Press-Citizen has a new article on how things are going with the PorkForest, and Random Mentality is right on top of it. The short version:

Shopping for plants, turning the blueprints upside down and sucking up to potential donors constitutes construction? This could be cheaper than I thought. Why don't we just keep shopping for a few more months and then decide that construction has, in some respects, finished? We could then spend a few more months rearranging the building's mock-ups and decide that visitors, in some respects, have already been flocking to the rainforest in droves. We could declare the entire project a success without ever actually breaking ground.

Read it all here.