Opinion

Take the loss Could someone please explain to me, after a fair and balanced election, why the Democrats are still preaching hate and why they still cannot accept the result that Donald Trump is our president today? Years ago, I thought the first woman of the White House, Michelle Obama, said, “When they go low,

He’s completely spineless Trump is spineless. At the very least, he should be demanding that Russia return the children that they’ve kidnapped, and Russia should pay damages that they have inflicted after invading Ukraine. Putin won’t stop Putin will not stop with what he’s talked to Trump into giving him. Everything that they’re demanding from

What’s that saying? Trump said to a woman reporter, “Quiet, piggy.” I thought that was crass and disrespectful. His press secretary, who is a woman, said he was being open and frank. What is they say? You can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.  What’s the point of taxes? My question is, if

Make up your minds This is on the St. Joseph School District. My opinion is they are a bunch of unprofessionals who cannot make executive decisions. Our school district has been a mess now for I don’t know how many years. It was a mess when I was a kid going to school here, but it’s

Win-win solution A win-win solution to our school situation might be for the South End to withdraw from the city and form its own school board and keep Benton High School. The rest of the city could then build a modern, state-of-the-art high school that would be attractive to young families who are considering locating

Veer off the usual pattern This is about the consideration of putting in new housing on 36th Street. I would just encourage the city to consider veering a little from their usual pattern of flash and burn and leaving the old parts of the city to fend for themselves. There are so many areas, particularly

Can’t decide on what they want This is about the school board thing. What happened? I thought they were going to have all three high schools, and next thing you know, they decided they didn’t like that idea. They can’t decide what they want to do now. Is it time to get rid of the

Watching closely I’ll be watching closely to see how Sam Graves votes this week to release all of the Epstein files.   Empty promises I’m calling in reference to the comment “It’s time to make changes.” Sir or ma’am, I do have the same car I had 15 years ago. I have the same auto

A plan from outer space I read in the paper where the St. Joe School District has like a plan one, a plan two, plan seven, and a plan E. What makes me think we’re going to end up with something like plan nine from Mars or outer space?  Shame on the SJSD Shame on the

Leave it alone I was calling about our illustrious school board. What happened to Plan E? They want to go back to review about the two high schools. This thing was voted down twice by the St. Joe people here, and they’re still going to try to get two high schools. Leave it alone, school

Limit the food The St. Joseph School District could save a lot of money if they would monitor how much food is wasted in these schools. People are in need of food, and all this food gets wasted by kids taking more than necessary than throwing it away. There should be a limit on how

This is what happens Everybody talks about the direction this country’s going. Well, this is what happens when you put a bunch of adolescent, immature children in office. They pout, they argue, they’re right, everybody’s wrong, instead of focusing on what needs to be done. There’s a lot of people lost their benefits, man. A

Special privilege I was just calling about these e-bikes and the regular bicycles. I was downtown having lunch last weekend. I noticed a lot of them. They just go right through the stop signs. They don’t stop. I guess they got a privilege; they don’t have to stop. Traffic’s there and they just seem to

Do something before there’s an accident I’m calling about the extreme danger that e-bikes pose, especially to pedestrians. Many, many people have been killed in Europe and in the United States who are walking or riding traditional bikes and were hit by e-bikes. And, of course, they’re a danger to the people who are riding

Get rid of the board I’m calling about the school system wanting to cut back on custodians and teachers. What about getting rid of the school board? All they’re doing is spending money for useless things.  Shame on the Democrats The big, beautiful bill passed, and the Democrats didn’t like it. Now they’re holding the

They won’t negotiate It really gets me all these people calling in and saying it’s the Democrats’ fault the government shut down. The Republicans hold the White House and Congress. They’re in charge of that. They won’t talk. They aren’t even in Washington. They haven’t been there for a month. How are they going to

How to tighten the budget For the St. Joe School District to tighten its budget, they need to fire half of the administration. They’re not doing their job anyway. Would like to know So, the school district is cutting $2.7 million. Is that taking away from the children, or is that knocking out a couple

Makes no sense Donald Trump has caused the doubling or tripling of healthcare premiums, the canceling of food assistance, the closing of hospitals, the increased cost of electricity, and it doesn’t make sense. We supposedly can’t afford these vital services for Americans, but we can give $40 billion to Argentina and we can build a

Get it done right I was calling about the streets of St. Joe. Why can’t the city do one street at a time instead of several more, and they don’t finish anything? On the end of our street, there’s a metal cover that’s been there for over a month. Can’t they fill this in? Quit

Is anyone else dealing with this? Has anyone else out there paid their bills to Mosaic and because of their poor bookkeeping, we’re getting letters saying that they turn it over to a collection agency even though the checks have already passed the bank. We are subsidizing billionaires Approximately 44% of Americans are paid less

Getting ridiculous When are these politicians in Washington finally going to quit playing their childish games and playing politics, like Chuck Schumer, and get this country back on track? They’re really starting to hurt people. This is getting ridiculous. Very obvious It’s pretty obvious before the Democratic Party can declare war on the Republicans, they’re