Three people have filed to run for city office or school board seats in Cass County. Deputy Auditor Sheri Karns reports: Kevin McCunn has filed papers to run for re-election to the Massena City Council: Richard L. Clark has filed nomination papers to run for a seat on the Lewis City Council; and, Ryan Askeland has filed papers to run for an At Large position on the Griswold School Board. The deadline to file nomination papers for the Nov. 5th City/School elections, is 5-p.m. Thursday, Sept.. 19th.

Cass County Auditor Dale Sunderman reminds persons interested in running for City and/or School Elections:

• You must file Nomination papers with the correct office during the filing period.
• You cannot file papers after the filing period ends.
• Candidates may run for both a city office and a school office at the November 5, 2019 City/School Election

The following elections will be held on November 5, 2019:

2019 School Board Elections – File with the School Board Secretary or Community College Board Secretary

2019 City Elections – File with the County Auditor

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports two arrests and one prisoner transfer-in. A Sheriff’s Deputy responding to a complaint. theft and disturbance that took place in Shelby late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, arrested 54-year old Amy Lou Payne. Payne was taken into custody for Harassment in the 3rd Degree by Communication/Personal Contact. She was transported to the Pott. County Jail.

Friday, afternoon, a traffic stop in Council Bluffs, resulted in the arrest of the driver, 42-year old Tammy Michelle Ortiz, on a Driving While Barred/Habitual Offender, charge. She was also wanted on a warrant for Failure to Appear. Ortiz was transported to the Pott. County Jail and turned over to Corrections staff.

And, a man being held at the Polk County Jail, in Des Moines, was transported to the Pott. County Jail, Friday afternoon. 43-year old Chase Andrew King, of Omaha, was wanted on a Pott. County warrant for Violation of Probation.

Four people were arrested over the weekend, in Creston, one of them was arrested twice. The Creston Police Department reports 46-year old Walter Hall, Jr., of Creston, was arrested at his residence at around 1:30-a.m. Sunday, on a charge of Domestic Abuse Assault/2nd offense. He was later released on a $600 bond. Hall was arrested again at around 12:10-p.m. Sunday, for Violating a Court Order. He was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting a bond hearing.

26-year old Brett Brammer, of Murray, and 25-year old Shawn Shimer, of Greenfield, were arrested during the course of a traffic stop at around 7-a.m., Sunday at Highway 25 and Russell Streets, in Creston. Both men were charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. The Creston Police K9 “Jax” assisted in the investigation.

And, 24-year old Kevin Harden, of Creston, was arrested Saturday afternoon, for Theft in the 5th Degree. He was later released on a $300 bond.

GRETNA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man from southwest Iowa died after his car collided with another in eastern Nebraska’s Sarpy County. The collision occurred a little before 5:30 p.m. Friday on U.S. Highway 6 on the south side of Gretna. The Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office says an eastbound car driven by 46-year-old Brian Bullington, of Red Oak, crossed the center line and struck an oncoming car being driven by 28-year-old Elizabeth Beckenhauer, of Ashland.

Beckenhauer was taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The sheriff’s office says Bullington was flown to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he later died.

(Radio Iowa) — Montana Governor Steve Bullock says it’s time to end the perpetual campaign. Bullock, one of the Democrats who’s running for president, is proposing new limits on when candidates for federal office may raise money for their campaigns. “President Trump essentially right after taking the oath of office reopened his campaign. U.S. Senators, everybody makes it almost that you’re campaigning full-time for these jobs,” Bullock says. “While it might sell cable television ads, I don’t think that’s what most folks want.”

Bullock was not among the 10 Democratic presidential candidates who debated last Thursday night, in Houston. He’s been in Iowa the past two days, arguing the race won’t be decided by the debates. “I think it’ll actually be decided by Iowans,” Bullock said. “The early states has always been what takes a big field and narrows it down.” Bullock points to the experience of 2004 Iowa Caucus winner John Kerry, who went on to win the Democratic nominee that year. “I think it was 30-some days out from the Iowa Caucuses  John Kerry was 4 points. Al Sharpton was beating him,” Bullock says. “Once folks really start paying attention along the way — and I think that usually comes fairly late along the way, that’s how we take a big field and make it much smaller.”

Bullock, who supported Joe Biden’s 1988 bid for the White House, says voters in 2020 “want to look forward, not backwards.” Bullock made his comments during taping Friday, of the “Iowa Press” program that aired over the weekend, on Iowa Public Television.

(Radio Iowa) — Colorado Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bennet spent the weekend campaigning in Iowa, illustrating that Bennet is among the candidates banking on a break-out finish in February’s Iowa Caucuses. No other candidate has spent as much time in the state in September. “We’re going to continue to stay until we begin to make progress,” Bennet said. “…It seems to me that post-Labor Day is when people start to really pay attention here.”

The Fifty-four-year-old Michael Bennet participated in the first two rounds of televised debates, but did not meet the fundraising and polling criteria to be among the 10 candidates who debated last Thursday night. “I don’t have limitless resources and the decision I had to make was whether I was going to pay Facebook so that I could generate $1 contributions that I had to buy in $60 or $70 increments,” Bennet says, “or whether I was going to use the money to communicate directly with the voters in Iowa.”

Bennet argues the televised debates have done little to alter the race. “People ask sometimes: ‘Well, what’s your break-out moment going to be?’ Historically, I think candidates that have put one foot in front of the other and met with people in their living rooms and in their storefronts have done well in these early states,” Bennet says, “and that’s what I’m going to continue to try to do.” Bennet was in a private home Sunday morning, talking about foreign policy. On Saturday, Bennet touted his focus on universal preschool as well as a proposed 50 percent increase in the child tax credit parents may claim on their income taxes. “We can actually make a difference,” Bennet said. “…Washington doesn’t have to just be about a partisan fight that never leads anywhere. We can pull some levers that really change America.”

Bennet is a Yale educated attorney, but he emphasizes a different part of his resume on the campaign trail. “I’m the only school superintendent that’s ever run for president as far as I can tell,” Bennet says. Bennet served as superintendent of Denver Public Schools for four and a half years before being appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2009. He has won two statewide elections in Colorado since then, in 2010 and 2016. He has been arguing against the “Medicare for All” plan some of his competitors have embraced as well as proposals to erase student loan debt and make public colleges tuition-free. “We’ve got to set some priorities here,” Bennet says. “We can’t give free stuff to everybody.”

Bennet touts his work across the partisan divide in the U.S. Senate, including a bipartisan immigration reform plan that won Senate approval, but was not considered in the House. “We’re at a moment in our political history when we need to treat each as Americans, not as enemies,” Bennet says. “We need to treat each other as friends.” Bennet says the Democratic Party’s nominee must be more than just anti-Trump, but must offer an agenda that unites the country.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The City Council in Sioux City is expected to consider a proposal Monday for removal of a World War II chapel and airmen’s housing project on Sioux City airport land. The Sioux City Journal reports that the chapel anchors the entrance to Sioux Gateway Airport and is one of the last standing remnants of the wartime air base built for B-17 bomber training.

City documents say the two parcels containing the chapel and housing were developed with uses not compatible with operations of the airport. The chapel would be moved off airport property, and a nonprofit group would take ownership and maintain it at a new location as a memorial and make it available for event rentals. However, the nonprofit group has not been fully formed and would need to raise funds to take over ownership of the chapel.

The group interested in the chapel is not financially able to accept the housing project, which could face demolition.