Quad-City Times: Woodbury County’s drug court has succeeded in its goal of getting some drug offenders through the rehabilitation program, thus keeping them out of jail. It would be “devastating” if the program suffered any cuts because of insufficient state funding, a program official said. But budget cuts are an unfortunate reality facing agencies and programs in Iowa’s judicial system, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady said. The judicial branch’s status-quo, $182 million budget appropriation pledged by state lawmakers is more than $5 million less than is needed, Cady said recently in an interview with the Quad-City Times. And because of that funding gap, state judicial system staff and programs may be on the chopping block, Cady said.