Newsflash [email protected]308-345-5400 www.highplainsradio.net SUNDAY DEC. 24 @ 11:00 AM VS THE REDSKINS JUST A REMINDER SANTA BUCKS EXPIRE DECEMBER 24TH. IF YOU RECEIVED A CALL YOU HAVE 48 HOURS TO PICK THEM UP AT THE STATION. FRIDAY DECEMBER 22, 2017 WALK-IN HOURS 7 AM - 5 PM MONDAY - FRIDAY 8 AM-10 AM SATURDAY NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY 1401 EAST H STREET 344-4110 Today Mostly Sunny High 38 Sat Sunny High 30 Fri Chance Snow High 26 WEATHER MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL OF US All of us at High Plains Radio wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas. The High Plains Radio offices will be closed on Mon- day and Tuesday. There will be no Newsflash on Monday or Tuesday but the Openline program will air on Tuesday morning at 9 am. FIRST DAY OF WINTER AND WINTER WEATHER Winter made its presence known on its first day with snow in the Panhandle and freezing rain through the rest of the state. The winter storm has moved on, leaving below normal cold in its wake. The National Weather Service forecasts abnormally cold temperatures through Christmas Day and into next week with highs throughout Nebraska only in the 20s and lows in the single digits. Wind chills will hover around zero. There could be a white Christmas in Nebraska. This weekend, another front will enter the state which could produce snow Saturday evening into Sunday morning. Otherwise, the forecast calls for dry conditions. NO INDICATION Gov. Pete Ricketts doesn’t believe Republican Roy Moore’s loss in an Alabama special Senate election gives any indication of how elections will go in Nebraska next year. Ricketts sees the charac- ter flaws of Moore as making the difference in his loss to Democ- rat Doug Jones in the special United States Senate election. “Both parties need to elect people of good character and the people of Alabama made their choice with regard to who they wanted to represent them, and I certainly respect their ability to make that decision,” Ricketts tells reporters when asked about the re- sults of the election. No Republican had lost in Alabama in dec- ades. Moore, a controversial candidate to begin with, won the Republican primary to seek to replace Jeff Sessions, who left the Senate to become Attorney General. MODERATE ECONOMIC GROWTH Economists with the University of Nebraska expect moderate economic growth next year. Bureau of Business Research Director Eric Thompson says a weak farm economy seems to be rebound- ing, at least somewhat. “While our agricultural industry continues to be stressed by weak commodity prices, we do think that farm income in Nebraska has stabilized and will actually have modest growth over the next few years,” Thompson tells Nebraska Radio Network. Businesses report in the bureau’s latest survey they re- main optimistic about sales and employment over the next six months. Building permits for single-family homes rose in Novem- ber. Thompson remains concerned about the strong dollar, which increases the price of Nebraska goods being sold abroad, driv- ing down demand. Thompson says job growth in construction, health care, and agricultural processing offsets an overall weak- ness in agricultural production. STOCKS DOW 19.75 TO 24,762.54 NASDAQ 9.47 TO 6,956.03 MERRY CHRISTMAS
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL OF US All of us at High Plains Radio wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas. The High Plains Radio offices will be closed on Mon-day and Tuesday. There will be no Newsflash on Monday or Tuesday but the Openline program will air on Tuesday morning at 9 am.
FIRST DAY OF WINTER AND WINTER WEATHER Winter made its presence known on its first day with snow in the Panhandle and freezing rain through the rest of the state. The winter storm has moved on, leaving below normal cold in its wake. The National Weather Service forecasts abnormally cold temperatures through Christmas Day and into next week with highs throughout Nebraska only in the 20s and lows in the single digits. Wind chills will hover around zero. There could be a white Christmas in Nebraska. This weekend, another front will enter the state which could produce snow Saturday evening into Sunday morning. Otherwise, the forecast calls for dry conditions.
NO INDICATION
Gov. Pete Ricketts doesn’t believe Republican Roy Moore’s loss in an Alabama special Senate election gives any indication of how elections will go in Nebraska next year. Ricketts sees the charac-ter flaws of Moore as making the difference in his loss to Democ-rat Doug Jones in the special United States Senate election. “Both parties need to elect people of good character and the people of Alabama made their choice with regard to who they wanted to represent them, and I certainly respect their ability to make that decision,” Ricketts tells reporters when asked about the re-sults of the election. No Republican had lost in Alabama in dec-ades. Moore, a controversial candidate to begin with, won the Republican primary to seek to replace Jeff Sessions, who left the Senate to become Attorney General.
MODERATE ECONOMIC GROWTH Economists with the University of Nebraska expect moderate economic growth next year. Bureau of Business Research Director Eric Thompson says a weak farm economy seems to be rebound-ing, at least somewhat. “While our agricultural industry continues to be stressed by weak commodity prices, we do think that farm income in Nebraska has stabilized and will actually have modest growth over the next few years,” Thompson tells Nebraska Radio Network. Businesses report in the bureau’s latest survey they re-main optimistic about sales and employment over the next six months. Building permits for single-family homes rose in Novem-ber. Thompson remains concerned about the strong dollar, which increases the price of Nebraska goods being sold abroad, driv-ing down demand. Thompson says job growth in construction, health care, and agricultural processing offsets an overall weak-ness in agricultural production.