The Mills County Sheriff’s Office today (Tuesday), released a report on arrests that took place over the past week, including three people who were taken into custody on drug charges. On March 10th, 18-year old Amberdawn Skye Tarr, of Council Bluffs, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance. On March 11th, 21-year old Jonathan James Hahn, of Glenwood, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance, Possession of Contraband and Selling/giving/supplying alcohol to a person under the legal age. And, on Monday,19-year old Juan Diego Guillen, of Council Bluffs, was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Others arrested include: 18-year old Montana Thomas Garbez, of Council Bluffs, on a warrant for Domestic Abuse Assault; 38-year old Wendy Lynn Meadows, of Glenwood, on a warrant out of Pottawattamie County, for Probation Violation; 32-year old Nicholas John Horgdal, of Henderson, for Driving While Barred.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he puts little faith in a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that bodes ill for the Republican replacement for Obamacare. The report says 14-million fewer Americans will have health care by next year under the replacement plan, with 24-million fewer covered in a decade versus staying with the current law. “It shouldn’t surprise anybody that when the Congressional Budget Office makes forecasts looking ten years into the future, they’re going to be wrong,” Grassley says.

The C-B-O doesn’t have a sterling record when trying to look a decade ahead, he says, especially with regards to health care. Grassley notes, 29-million people are still uninsured under Obamacare and the C-B-O predicted far more would be covered by this point in time. “In 2009 and ’10, when the Congressional Budget Office estimated what Obamacare would cost, it came in at about, for a ten-year figure, of $980-billion I believe,” Grassley says. “It’s come out hundreds of billions of dollars more.”

Under the Affordable Care Act, people who don’t have health insurance face stiff fines on their taxes, but Grassley says the Republican replacement wouldn’t contain that feature, so it’s natural the number of uninsured people would go up. Grassley says the A-C-A is deeply flawed and must be rewritten, though he says it’s still uncertain exactly how that will be accomplished. “The insurance companies are saying that it’s on a death spiral and even if Hillary Clinton had been elected president, there’d have to be big changes made in this program,” Grassley says. “That’s what we’ve been promising the people and I think we have to deliver on it.”

When a report comes out from the C-B-O, Grassley says it’s typically treated like it came from God, so this report may force House leaders to go back to the drawing board with their replacement plan. Tom Price, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, says the C-B-O report is “just not believable.”

(Radio Iowa)

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – The Sioux City school board is urging Congress to support immigrant students. The Sioux City Journal reports that the board voted Monday for a resolution that urged members of the U.S. House and Senate to adopt the Bridge Act. The measure would continue protections granted to young people under the program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which is aimed at helping young people who arrived in this country as children.

The Bridge Act would grant provisional protected-presence status and impose restrictions on the sharing of information for immigration enforcement. Last month the Des Moines school board decided the district will act as a sanctuary for students who entered the country without legal permission and will require that immigration inquiries go through the superintendent’s office and the district’s attorney.