(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak say a man was arrested at around 8:45-p.m. Tuesday, following a traffic stop in the 100 block of W. Market Street. 23-year-old Jonah Lee Kirsch, of Red Oak, was arrested for Driving While Barred, and OWI/2nd offense. He was also charged with Carrying a weapon while intoxicated, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Kirsch was being held in the Montgomery Countyt Jail on a $2,000 bond.

Red Oak Police were assisted by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in conducting the arrest and investigation.

(Radio Iowa) – Former Vice President Mike Pence plans to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties before the Iowa Caucuses early next year and he’s making stops in western Iowa over the next couple of days.

Pence will make stops in Sioux Center, Le Mars, Sioux City, Holstein and Neola this week and he’ll be back in Iowa next week to appear along with several other candidates at an event hosted by The Family Leader. Pence’s next opportunity to reach a nationwide audience is likely the first televised debate for G-O-P candidates in August. Pence’s campaign has not yet indicated he’s met the fundraising threshold to qualify for the debate, but during an interview with Radio Iowa yesterday (Tuesday), Pence indicated he will be on the debate stage.

Pence visited Ukraine late last week and he told Ukraine’s president the U-S will support his country until victory over Russia is achieved.

Pence says he understands the concern of many Americans that the war has stretched into its 16th month, but Pence says the Biden Administration has been slow in providing the military hardware Ukraine needs for its fight.

Before he was vice president, Pence served one term as Indiana’s governor. He appointed one of the Indiana Supreme Court justices who ruled last week that Indiana’s 2022 abortion ban doesn’t violate the state’s constitution.

Pence says that means presidential candidates who are elected by the American people should support a federal law on abortion. He’s called for a nationwide ban on abortion after the 15th week of pregnancy.

Pence has also called for entitlement reform. As an Indiana congressman in 2005, Pence supported President George W. Bush’s plan to let younger workers invest payroll taxes for Social Security in private savings accounts instead, but the Republican-led congress never took a vote on the idea. Pence says 15 years later, Americans understand the trajectory of the national debt must be addressed.

Pence says polling data shows Gen Xers and Millenials “would be very open” to the kind of changes he’s discussing. A survey conducted for a financial services company two years ago found 83 percent of Americans born between 1965 and 1985 believe Social Security will run out of money in their lifetimes.

Pence says raising the retirement age for Social Security should be considered, but any changes should be phased in. He also says there should be no changes for those who are 25 years away from the current retirement age for Social Security and Medicare.

Per The American Legion, Harlan’s fireworks will be postponed until tomorrow July 5th due to the potential incoming weather threat. Fireworks will take place at the same time and location.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Atlantic Fire Chief Tom Cappel reports the City of Atlantic’s Fireworks Show for tonight has been postponed due to the expected wet and possibly stormy weather. The decision to postpone the event was made by Cappel, Mayor Grace Garrett, and a representative from Wild Willy’s Fireworks.

A date for show has not yet been rescheduled.

(Radio Iowa) – Even with all of the satellite mapping technology on our smartphones, some Iowans still enjoy having the old-school paper road maps in their vehicle’s glove box. The 2023-2024 edition of the Iowa Transportation Map is now available. Mark Hansen, a transportation planner with the Iowa DOT, says the new edition has a host of changes from last year. “This year, we got the 2020 Census changes in for the populations of the cities in Iowa,” Hansen says, “so that involved changing hundreds of hundreds of populations for the cities.”

The map shows all of Iowa’s highways, airports, railroad lines, lakes, rivers, and major county roads. Smaller detail maps are also included for the state’s 16 largest cities which identify highways, major streets, and city boundaries. “We have some new roadways across Iowa. We have the US 30 four-lane east of Tama. We have US 61 four-lane north of Burlington,” Hansen says. “We’ve got several interchanges that were built this last year, so we reflected those correctly on that new transportation map.”

The map includes a chart to find mileage between select Iowa cities along with an index listing all of the cities shown on the map, along with their populations and their map locations. “New transportation maps are available at the rest areas, the welcome centers, driver’s license stations across the state,” Hansen says. “It’s also available online at iowadot.gov/maps.”

There’s also a link to a mobile app version available at the same website. The maps are printed every two years and they’re free.

(Radio Iowa) – Former Vice President Mike Pence walked in Urbandale’s 4th of July parade today (Tuesday) and will campaign in western Iowa over the next three days. Pence plans to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties before the Iowa Republican Party’s Caucuses early next year. “One of the things I’ve learned traveling the nation over the last two years is that I’m well known, but I don’t think we’re known well,” Pence said. “Most Americans know me as a loyal lieutenant standing beside the president right up until my oath to the Constitution required me to do otherwise, but the story of our family, the story of our service, the story of a family that’s lived the American dream, that I’ve been a champion of the conservative movement all my life — that’s a story I’ll look forward to telling on the debate stage and in all 99 counties of Iowa before we get to that Caucus.”

Pence, who held his presidential campaign kick-off in Iowa last month, spoke with Radio Iowa this (Tuesday) morning and shared that his first parade appearance was in 1964. “My mother took a picture of us actually on a float for Barry Goldwater on his float for president when I was a toddler, but I have no memory of that,” Pence said, with a laugh. “…I would tell you the opportunity to be back on the street, shaking hands, greeting people, celebrating Independence Day, waving ‘Old Glory’ and cheering on the incredible progress our country has made through all these so many years is something that I cherish.”

Pence will make stops in Boone, Sioux Center, Le Mars, Sioux City, Holstein and Neola over the next few days and he’ll be back in Iowa next week to appear along with several other candidates at an event hosted by The Family Leader.