The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on an assault charge, Thursday night. Authorities say Dennis L. Vanderhoof, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 8:55-p.m. for Domestic Abuse Assault. His arrest was the result of an investigation that followed a medical call in the 1700 block of 206th Street earlier in the evening, Thursday. Vanderhoof was found at the residence and taken into custody without incident.

He was being held without bond in the Montgomery County Jail, pending an initial appearance before the magistrate.

(Radio Iowa) – The two Republicans from Iowa who serve in the U.S. Senate say President Biden hasn’t followed up on his campaign pledge to pursue bipartisan solutions. Senator Chuck Grassley says the Biden presidency is only 100 days old, so there’s plenty of time for Biden to be more like the bipartisan dealmaker Grassley worked with when Biden was in the U.S. Senate. “I liked Senator Biden,” Grassley says. “I don’t quite see the President Biden operating like the Senator Biden did.”

Grassley says he’d like to collaborate with Biden on criminal justice reform and on lowering prescription drug prices. “I agree with him on some of his policy,” Grassley says, “but he wants to spend too much money.” Senator Joni Ernst is also criticizing Biden’s spending plans. “President Biden is blowing up a traditionally bipartisan issue, infrastructure, and is looking to pass a partisan, over $2 trillion package,” Ernst said.

Ashley Hinson, the Republican from Marion who is Iowa’s first district congresswoman, was among the small audience in the House for President Biden’s speech Wednesday night. Hinson says the speech was filled with free stuff and a lot of fluff. “I think it’s unfortunate that he chose instead of trying to bring our party together and bring our country together, he chose to continue with more of the same,” Hinson says, “which is reckless spending, ignoring rural America and ignoring the crisis at our border.” Hinson says she opposes the big government solutions Biden is proposing.

“I keep hearing ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching,” Hinson says. “These plans sound really expensive and we haven’t been brought to the table to have many discussions on these issues.” While Hinson watched the speech from the House balcony, second district Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican from Ottumwa, was on the House floor and talked briefly with Biden after the speech. Miller-Meeks says the president’s remarks were well-toned, but Miller-Meeks says she is discouraged by some of Biden’s proposals and hasn’t seen much of the bipartisanship Biden promised in his inaugural address.

Fourth district Congressman Randy Feenstra of Hull, the other Republican in Iowa’s delegation, says the Biden Administration has been highly-partisan and its policies will send the country into a debt-spiral.

Third district Congresswoman Cindy Axne of West Des Moines, the only Democrat in Iowa’s D-C delegation, says Biden has delivered vital relief funds and over 200 million vaccinations in his first 100 days in office and she says the president’s infrastructure package will bring new jobs and revitalize the economy.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds has declined 95 million dollars in federal pandemic aid for schools. During a town hall last night (Thursday night) on Fox News, Reynolds said the 95 million was for surveillance testing of students in Iowa schools. Reynolds said President Biden must think Covid just started and the state doesn’t need money to get kids back in the classroom since most Iowa schools have had in-person classes since August.

After the program, the governor’s spokesman provided Radio Iowa with an April 23rd letter the Iowa Department of Public Health sent the Centers for Disease Control. It said Iowa has ample funding and Covid testing capacity for Iowa school districts. The letter asked for state officials to be notified if the money could be spent in a different way, particularly if the 95 million could be used for vaccine distribution.