(updated) (Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a traffic stop at around 3:15-a.m. today (Friday), resulted in the arrest of a woman for Driving While Barred. The traffic stop took place at Highway 34 and A Avenue. 45-year-old Jill Alicia Palmer, of Bellevue, NE, was taken into custody following a records check. She was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $2,000 bond.

Deputies initiated a traffic stop at around 9:35-p.m., Thursday, in Villisca, and upon further investigation, arrested the driver of the vehicle, 29-year-old Tyler Steven Gibler, of Villisca, for Driving While Suspended. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on slightly more than $491 bond.

And, Police in Red Oak, Thursday afternoon, arrested 28-year-old Christian Lee Meek, of Red Oak. He was arrested on a valid Red Oak P-D warrant for Domestic Abuse Assault/2nd offense. Meek was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

(Shenandoah, Iowa) – Police in Shenandoah conducting a traffic stop on a vehicle for speeding a little after 10-p.m., Thursday, ended-up arrested the driver of the vehicle, for OWI/1st offense. Authorities say 51-year-old Timothy James Stuck, of Essex, was taken into custody in the 1500 block of Highway 48. He was being held on a $1,000 bond in the Page County Jail. Stuck was additionally cited for Speeding.

(Radio Iowa) – House Speaker Pat Grassley says Republicans are having productive conversations and he’s predicting the governor’s school choice bill has the votes to pass the Iowa House.  “I don’t think I’d be moving the bill along throughout the process if we didn’t have that expectation,” Grassley says. Governor Kim Reynolds has proposed less expansive plans in the past two years, but each failed to secure enough support among House Republicans to pass.

Her new plan would let low income parents get state funds to cover expenses if they enroll a child in a private school and starting in 2025 — any private school parent could apply. Grassley says the goal now is to take a vote on the governor’s bill next week.  “I think we’ve come up with a really good bill here,” Grassley said. “I think the governor has proposed a really strong bill that addressed a lot of any of concerns that may have existed over the last two years in the debate that we’ve had.”

Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee advanced the bill yesterday (Thursday), so it’s eligible for debate next week in the Senate, too. Democrats say legislators should at least wait for the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency to complete its analysis of the bill’s fiscal impact. Senator Claire Celsi, a Democrat from Des Moines, says she doubts the governor’s estimate the plan will cost about 900 million dollars over the next four years.

“We have no clue what it’s really going to cost,” Celsi says. “If you look at what it costs in other states that have gone this route, the estimates are way low.” Other Democrats say the bill doesn’t have enough oversight of the private company that will be hired to distribute the state money to private school parents.