CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs around 80. South winds 10 to 20 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy.  Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds

around 5 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain showers

and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Chance of rain showers and

slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of

precipitation 30 percent.

.LABOR DAY…Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

Thursday night and Friday brings the next chance for thunderstorms.

 

The Labor Day Holiday weekend looks dry and mild through Saturday, then chances for thunderstorms Sunday  into Labor Day Monday.

Temperatures through the weekend will be mild. Looking at highs in

the 80s Thursday, then generally highs in the 70s Friday through

Tuesday.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Jamestown author, Nancy Kuykendall has published another book, “Our Daily Moments,” she says is a personal collection of thoughts and experiences she says many of us share with her.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Nancy said the ‘daily reader,’ is nearly 500 pages, as she worked on the book for two and half years, and published on February 28 this year by WestBow Press.

She said the book is available to purchase locally at The Dakota Store on First Avenue South in Jamestown, and on line, including Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, available in hard cover, soft cover, along with kindle and other services.

Also, visit her website  nancykuykendall.com

Her previously published books, “Mornings on the Porch,” and “Ordinary Wonders,” are still available for purchase at The Dakota Store, and on line.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  National Buffalo Museum Director, Ilana Xinos reports the year old white bison heifer, a part of the herd in Jamestown, has died.

She says bison was found dead on Tuesday night, of natural causes.

She says the bison, a descendant of White Cloud was brought to Jamestown three months ago and became a part of the herd, but was not readily accepted by the other animals.

The heifer was born at Shirek (Shree’-ock) Buffalo  Ranch in Michigan, North Dakota, where white cloud was born, and was given to the Jamestown herd.

 

 

Bismarck —  Congressman Kevin Cramer says, President Donald Trump will be back in North Dakota next week to campaign for Cramer, the Republican Challenger for the senate seat currently held by Democrat, Heidi Heitkamp.

Cramer says, Trump will be in Fargo September 7. The visit was first reported by Valley News Live’s Chris Berg.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)   –  North Dakota Farmers Union, President Mark Watne says, the Trump administration’s announcement this week to distribute more than $6 billion in aid to farmers hurt by trade tariffs is welcome but will not make producers whole.

Half of the $12 billion in funds allocated will be distributed through the Farm Service Agency’s Market Facilitation Program (MFP) with a second payment later “if warranted,” according to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in a USDA press release explaining program details.

Watne adds, “It’s frustrating that we’re using a Band-Aid approach to economic devastation. said Farmers are having to pay for a trade war they didn’t ask for and instead of the Administration’s promise to hold farmers harmless, they’re being asked to hang on indefinitely.”

The bulk of funding will go to soybean producers at $1.65 per bushel, which Watne said is misleading because the actual compensation rate is 82.5¢ per bushel given the 50 percent payment rate. The compensation isn’t enough to offset losses, making the ongoing drop in farm income even worse, he said.

Watne questions,  “Has the Administration accounted for the damage we’re doing to trade relationships that ag and commodity groups have forged over decades? What about other crops, such as canola, that is similarly impacted? Nearly every crop is being harmed as commodity prices move together.  Let’s not forget, too, that farmers facing weather conditions out of their control will be limited to payments that are based on lower production.  Even if trade tariffs were lifted and trade resumed today, it will take at least 60 days to get ships to the Pacific Northwest to move North Dakota commodities and that’s if we still have trading partners. This isn’t a short-run game for agriculture.”

A better solution, he says would be to raise crop reference prices dramatically in the farm bill. “This would provide a long-term solution to an issue that could drag on for years. Raising reference prices would offset the cost to farmers that are being impacted by the trade war. If the war is short lived and we actually have a win with higher market prices, then the higher reference prices would not have any additional cost to the government.”

Starting Sept. 4, farmers can apply for 50 percent compensation on their 2018 actual production of soybeans, corn, wheat, sorghum and cotton. Compensation for dairy producers will be based on per hundredweight of milk production, and per hog for pork producers. For more information, go to farmers.gov/mfp.

 

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) — The Devils Lake Police Department has identified the officer who shot and killed a man earlier this summer.Detective Brandon Potts shot and killed 26-year-old Daniel Fuller on July 5 after officers responded to a call about a suspicious person. Police say Fuller died after a struggle ended with Potts’ gun being fired.The state Bureau of Criminal Investigation is handling the case.Potts was placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard policy. He’s a 10-year veteran of the force. 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling rejecting a convicted murderer’s argument that some evidence should have been suppressed at his trial.

Morris Brickle-Hicks appealed his conviction for killing Misty Coffelt in Bismarck in 2016. The 40-year-old woman was found fatally beaten behind a farm goods store. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Brickle-Hicks’ attorney, James Loraas, argued incriminating statements and clothing evidence should have been suppressed because his client didn’t voluntarily waive his Miranda rights in a police interview.

KXMB-TV says the Supreme Court upheld the district court ruling Tuesday.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A practicing Rastafarian is suing a North Dakota county social services agency to get her name off a child abuse registry.

The Minot Daily News reports that a judge heard arguments Tuesday in Shanika Lister’s civil suit against Ward County Social Services.

North Central Human Services had placed Lister’s name on the registry after the agency deemed services were required because her baby daughter had traces of marijuana in her system. Lister argues putting her name on the registry is illegal after a judge later ruled the woman’s use of marijuana is a protected religious practice.

Rastafari is an Abrahamic religious sect that developed among disenfranchised Afro-Jamaican communities in the 1930s largely as a reaction against Jamaica’s then-dominant British colonial culture. The religion promotes marijuana use in rituals and medicine.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The first people to be sent to jail for protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota have lost their appeals to the state’s Supreme Court.Mary Redway, of Providence, Rhode Island, and Alexander Simon, of Lamy, New Mexico, were convicted last October of disorderly conduct. Simon also was convicted of physical obstruction of a government function. Redway served four days in jail. Simon served 12 days.Both appealed their convictions, citing a lack of evidence and arguing their participation in protests was constitutionally protected activity. Supreme Court justices rejected those arguments.The Water Protector Legal Collective says the decision is “an ominous ruling for anyone who wishes to gather and express frustration with government or corporate action.”Pipeline protests resulted in 761 arrests in 2016 and 2017.

 

NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — Five people are opposing Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Mark Fox in the upcoming tribal primary.

The Minot Daily News reports that former tribal chairman and former National Congress of American Indians President Tex Hall is one of them.

The others are Jasper Young Bear, Marcus Wells, Scott Satermo and Kermit Heart.

The primary election is Sept. 18. The top two vote-getters advance to the general election Nov. 6. If any candidate gets more than half of the votes in the primary, he will be declared the winner.

 

 

In Sports..

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Babe Ruth World Series for 13- to 15-year-olds is set to come to Bismarck.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that the event became official Tuesday when the Babe Ruth Baseball Inc. national commissioner Robert Faherty came to town to sign a contract for next year’s tournament, which will be held Aug. 8-15.

The tourney will begin with pool play and will be narrowed down to a single-elimination bracket to determine a champion. Bismarck will have a team in the field as the host city.

Faherty calls Bismarck’s newly-remodeled Municipal Ballpark a “first-class baseball field” and says it was an important factor in deciding the site.

It will be the first time Bismarck has hosted a Babe Ruth World Series.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is tweeting that his White House counsel, Don McGahn, will be departing in the fall after the Senate confirmation vote for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court. Trump says on Twitter that he has “worked with Don for a long time and truly appreciate his service!” McGahn has had a tumultuous tenure, marked by his threat to resign last year if Trump continued to press for the removal of Robert Mueller as the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation.

 

 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis is coming under fire from Democrats after saying the last thing Floridians need to do is “monkey this up” by electing Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum as governor. Gillum would be the state’s first black governor.

 

 

PHOENIX (AP) — Cindy McCain pressed her face against the flag-draped casket of her husband, U.S. Sen. John McCain, and several of his children sobbed during the first of two services before he is taken for the last time from the state he has represented since the 1980s. During the service Wednesday at the Arizona Capitol rotunda, Gov. Doug Ducey remembered McCain as a senator and internationally known figure as well as a key figure in the history of the Arizona.

 

DETROIT (AP) — People are continuing to stream in for a second day to pay their respects to Aretha Franklin as she lies in repose in the rotunda of Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Franklin has undergone a wardrobe change from a day earlier, when she was dressed from head to heel in red, shifting to a sheer baby blue dress and matching shoes. Fans are queuing festively outside, then walking solemnly and single file into the museum.

 

 

MOSCOW (AP) — Facing protests and a noticeable dip in his approval ratings, President Vladimir Putin has made rare concessions to a deeply unpopular pension reform package that increased the retirement age for Russians. While Putin said the general idea of the policy was justified, due to Russia’s economic and demographic trends, he said the retirement age for women would increase only from 55 to 60, rather than 63. A plan to raise the retirement age for men from 60 to 65 remains unchanged.