Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Feb 16

CSi Weather..

WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM MONDAY EVENING TO 1 PM CST TUESDAY…
.TONIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. COLDER. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW.
NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 25 BELOW
AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.
NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 25 BELOW.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW. NORTHWEST
WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 35 BELOW.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS NEAR ZERO. NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND
15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 20 BELOW. NORTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS NEAR ZERO. HIGHS
5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW.
HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS NEAR ZERO.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 20.

 MONDAY AFTERNOON SNOW ACCUMULATIONS GENERALLY A DUSTING TO A HALF.

WIND CHILLS IN THE 30S BELOW ZERO WILL BE LIKELY EARLY
 TUESDAY…WEDNESDAY…AND THURSDAY MORNINGS.

 DRY CONDITIONS AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE THEN FORECAST FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown community is invited to a forum on the Two Rivers Activity Center (TRAC) on Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7 p.m. at the North Dakota Farmers Union state office at 1415 12th Avenue Southeast. Community members are encouraged to attend to learn more about the facility and its operations.

Valley City (CSi)  First Amendment advocate Mary Beth Tinker will visit Valley City State on February 18, 2015.

Tinker will appear at a meet-and-greet event February 18 from 8 am to 8:50 a.m. in the Student Center Skoal Room; audience members are invited to purchase breakfast at the VCSU cafeteria or Viking I and bring their meals with them to the Skoal Room.

She is visiting North Dakota to testify on behalf of the John Wall New Voices Act (HB 1471), which would address how the Hazelwood decision is applied in our state.

Mary Beth Tinker is a national speaker on First Amendment issues related to students and education. She’s best known for the U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.

In 1965, when she was 13 years old, Tinker wore a black armband to school protesting the conflict in Vietnam. The school said she couldn’t wear it, but she did anyway and that led her all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court decision was in her favor—that students should be free to express themselves up to the point of substantial disruption. That standard has been in place in our public high schools since 1969.

However, in 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court heard another case that negated part of the Tinker Standard: Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. The decision went in favor of the Hazelwood School District, which said that school districts could censor student journalism that was built into the curriculum. This left a paradoxical distinction that still exists today—students walking down the hallway can express themselves under the Tinker Standard, yet student journalists, who rely on the First Amendment as a foundation of their education, can be censored.

Update…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man whom authorities say was assaulted by North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler was accused of assaulting her in a Florida hotel room last summer.
 
     Court documents indicate Baesler didn’t cooperate with authorities in the Florida case against Todd Tschosik, and prosecutors dropped the case.
 
     Baesler was arrested Sunday on a preliminary assault charge after an incident at Tschosik’s Bismarck home. She said in a statement that an argument with her fiance escalated to the point where she was concerned about her safety, and it wasn’t the first time she had felt at risk.
 
     A spokesman for Baesler said she wouldn’t comment on the Florida incident.
 
     Tschosik didn’t respond to a request for comment. Court documents indicate he told Florida police he was set up by Baesler.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate has rejected a measure aimed at exempting clothing from sales tax.  
 
     The Senate voted 27-20 Monday to kill the bill.
 
     The measure would exempt clothing from the state’s 5 percent sales tax. Local sales taxes also would be exempted.  
 
     Tax analysts say the measure would have reduced state tax revenue by about $40 million over the next two years. 
 
     Similar measures have failed in the Senate in the past two sessions.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The average retail price of a gallon of gasoline in the Dakotas has continued to rise in the past week, after falling below the $2-per-gallon mark last month.
 
     GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan says rebounding crude prices are the reason.
 
     The average price in North Dakota has risen nearly 9 cents per gallon in the past week, to $2.16. In South Dakota, the average price has risen about 7 cents, to $2.09.
 
     The national average increased 7.6 cents per gallon over the week, to $2.25. But that’s still more than $1.10 cheaper than last year at this time.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The recent slide in oil prices is leading to fewer jobs in the western North Dakota oil patch, but officials there and in northwestern South Dakota say the regional industry is resilient.
 
     Openings posted at the Job Service North Dakota office in Williston have fallen from about 4,500 before the price slump to about 1,900 now. But office Manager Cindy Sanford tells the Williston Herald there are still jobs out there. And she estimates her office’s postings represent fewer than half of the actual jobs available.
 
     North Dakota’s oil boom has tricked into northwestern South Dakota, with some companies locating there and some workers living there and commuting.
 
     The Rapid City Journal reports that executives at a recent Belle Fourche (foosh) conference said they expect that impact to continue

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate is backing off on a plan to use oil revenue to build a new home for North Dakota’s first family.
 
     Beulah Republican Sen. Jessica Unruh is the primary sponsor of the bill that would appropriate $5 million to build a new governor’s residence on the state Capitol grounds.
 
     Unruh says the Senate has decided there are too many unknowns about oil prices at this time to spend money on a new governor’s residence. She says it’s better just to study the idea for now.
 
     The current home was completed in 1960. Officials say the current home has security issues, is not handicap-accessible and likely contains lead paint and asbestos.
 
     Lawmakers have defeated measures in the past two sessions for a new governor’s home.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Fargo man is facing at least one felony charge related to child pornography following an incident at a public library.
 
     James Sean Fay was arrested last week and charged with attempted possession of prohibited materials. KFGO-AM reports he’s accused of searching for child pornography, collecting images of children toilet training and collecting medical photos of children on the Internet.
 
     Police say Fay knocked over a computer and tried to hide the evidence when officers approached him at the Fargo Public Library in November.
 
     Authorities say Internet search history indicted Fay had looked for child porn before. Police say they also found more than 200 images of children on a flash drive belonging to Fay.
 
     Online court records don’t list an attorney for Fay.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot is finalizing its application for part of nearly $1 billion in federal grant money to boost flood recovery efforts.
 
     Minot is competing against nearly 70 other applicants in the Housing and Urban Development’s National Disaster Resiliency Competition, which aims to help communities continue recovery and enhance resilience for future disasters.
 
     Minot is recovering from the 2011 Souris River flood that damaged or destroyed more than 4,000 homes and other structures.
 
     City officials on Tuesday are holding their final public meeting to gather input on what should go into the application. The first phase of the competition requires communities to develop an outline of what they want to achieve.
 
     The application is due March 16. Applicants who make it into the second phase are eligible for up to $30 million.

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The end of Target’s Canadian operations has had a financial impact on small and medium businesses in Minnesota that supplied the retailer.
 
     Target’s Canadian division filed for bankruptcy protection last month and owes nearly $5 million to suppliers and service providers in Minnesota.
 
     Retail Merchandizing Services is among the suppliers. The Maple Grove company has stocked and maintained jewelry and sunglass displays at Target stores for decades. It followed Target into Canada where it hired 200 employees. The company’s president, Phil Lamers, says that was an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 
Target Canada says it’s committed to a fair and orderly process as it winds down operations.

In world and national news…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Although two suspected accomplices are now behind bars, Denmark’s prime minister says there are no signs that the man who shot and killed two people in Copenhagen over the weekend is part of a larger terror cell. Denmark’s security service has already confirmed that it knew about the suspect before the weekend attacks. A source says the man had been released from jail just two weeks ago. He’s identified by two sources as Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein.
 
     ROME (AP) – Italian officials say they’d consider taking part in any military intervention to keep Islamic State forces from advancing in Libya. But they first want to give diplomatic efforts a chance. There’s concern in Italy after the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians by Islamic State militants in Libya — which is just across the Mediterranean from Italy.
 
     DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted a man on three counts of murder in the shootings of three young Muslims in what authorities have said was a dispute over parking spaces. A  grand jury in Durham County handed up the indictments today for Craig Hicks. He and the victims were neighbors in a Chapel Hill condominium complex. Local police haven’t uncovered any evidence Hicks acted out of hatred for his neighbor’s faith. The FBI is also investigating.
 
     FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – A winter storm that is moving through parts of the South is headed for the Carolinas — and it’s then expected to make its way up the East Coast toward the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. The storm is leaving a foot or more of snow in parts of Kentucky, and it’s left tens of thousands without power in Arkansas. 
 
     LOS ANGELES (AP) – A mistaken announcement on the P-A system  caused some panic Monday at Los Angeles International Airport. Passengers fled onto the tarmac after an announcement that a man with a gun was on the loose. It turned out that police had pursued an unarmed man to the airport’s departures level after responding to a report that he may have been trying to kill himself, but not at the airport. Somehow that led to the false announcement. Police say order was restored within 15 minutes.