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It’s Your Call for July 3

Why would they do that? Why would the Republicans rather give tax breaks to the very rich rather than ensure that our children in this country have the necessities of life?  About the scanner… I’m calling in regards to the scanner. Supposedly, they’re going to block it to where there’s no scanner traffic. For somebody that’s

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It’s Your Call for July 2

Makes no sense Trump keeps saying we’re bringing in billions from the tariffs that he has imposed. So why is it that they need to raise the debt ceiling?  Only beautiful for the wealthy Anytime someone tells you they want to make things better, ask for who. There are always winners and losers, and in

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It’s Your Call for July 1

Same old, same old I’d like to know when Republicans quit being Republicans. This deficit busting bill that they have, all these tax cuts for the rich, which is a Republican thing. But it’s the same old crap, trickledown economics. Where’s we’re always for balancing the budget, reducing the deficit? This bill doesn’t do anything

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It’s Your Call for June 30

How they voted I request that the News-Press publish how our Missouri representatives voted on Trump’s great bill.  Editor’s note: In the Senate, Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt both voted “Yea.” In the House, Rep. Graves voted “Yea.”   About rental inspections This is on the rental inspections. How are they supposed to come in

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Your Letters for June 27, 2025

Behind the riots From the 18 U.S. Code § 2101 –Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent — To incite a riot; To organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; To

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It’s Your Call for June 27

You have a problem If you can’t figure it out by now that the Democrats are the party of communism, socialism, illegal immigration, higher taxes and everything else that’s wrong with the country, you have a problem.  God Bless America I watched the news briefing this morning on the bombing over the weekend of the

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It’s Your Call for June 26

Only responsibilities The only two responsibilities of our city government is our safety and our infrastructure, which is supposed to be financed and paid for out of our general fund. Yet when they need more money for our police, which is safety, they want more tax dollars from us taxpayers. When they need more money

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It’s Your Call for June 25

Running off the townfolk Congratulations, St. Joe. I see just voted on an increase on your landfill, and your sewer rate increases. You just outpaced me. I will now move out of this area. I can’t afford to live in this one-horse town that can’t seem to get anything right. You’ve done it again. You’ve

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It’s Your Call for June 24

Wonderful  What a wonderful weekend it was to be an American to see our president take positive steps to keep a nation from producing another nuclear weapon. The last thing this world needs is another nuclear war.  What’s next? Even President Donald Trump’s most fanatic followers have learned he can’t be trusted. Trump promised them

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Its Your Call for June 23

They just keep coming back In addition to last week’s article about the young men walking around, the latest is they are going around saying they’re working for a company called KIN and they’d like to spray your house for spiders. They just keep coming back. So funny I find it so funny when I

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It’s Your Call for June 20

Something’s going on Something’s going on in St. Joseph. A young man walking around neighborhoods saying they represent Evergy talking about high light bills or selling solar panels or selling security systems. One young man walked in a neighborhood east of the Belt, between Pacific and Mitchell for three hours, up and down the street.

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Your Letters for June 20, 2025

Call it what it is Iran has been financing Hamas terrorists for decades, in addition to supplying them with materials and training their forces. It’s no secret that Iran wants to see Israel wiped off the map. Their missile strikes today confirm that. In addition, this Iranian regime has clearly been preparing to make nuclear

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It also becomes necessary to avoid self-inflicted injuries. To its detriment, Western has failed to do that.

Lack of transparency compounds Western’s problems

These are difficult days for higher education. The Trump administration wages war on elite universities and takes the economically reckless stance of restricting international students. When budgets get tight, state governments fail to support public colleges and universities. As costs rise, families re-evaluate the value of a college degree. Facing a “demographic cliff,” institutions compete

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It’s Your Call for June 18

Get it passed So, the Democrats are worried that the new Big Beautiful Bill would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years. During the last four years, the national debt went up 7.7%. If you put that into terms of 10 years, that would be over $19 trillion. So, the Democrats

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It’s Your Call for June 17

A closer vote The school board’s been criticized the last few years, and rightfully so, for trying to shove a two-school idea down the peoples’ throats that nobody wants. But I would bet that vote would be closer than if the city council/mayor would have a vote on spending $7 million and then a quarter

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Edgar goes out with a bang

Just days before his retirement, Superintendent Gabe Edgar is scheduled to present a long-range plan to the St. Joseph Board of Education. If approved, this plan would eventually leave the St. Joseph School District with just two high schools. Benton becomes a middle school, while Central and Lafayette remain the city’s two public high schools

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It’s Your Call for June 16

Concentrate on academics I saw the new superintendent’s interview on the local news, and I can’t believe how disappointing it is. No one is going to move here if you build three new schools, as terrible as our academics are. Why don’t they concentrate on that and in five to 10 years come back. Maybe

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It’s Your Call for June 13

What’s next? The Missouri Department of Conservation decision to close Pigeon Hill Shooting Range stops public access to a free public use area with safety as a convenient excuse. What’s next? You can’t fish in the Missouri River because it’s too deep. You might drown. You can’t duck hunt. If it’s too cold, you might

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Your Letters for June 13, 2025

It’s just odd I agree with several letter writers in the St Joseph News-Press who are concerned about Joe Biden’s cognitive impairments while president. Its obvious Joe Biden wasn’t cut out for president. His babble isn’t just garbled talk; it is messed up thinking. When Biden and his wife Jill flew away to California on

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Its Your Call for June 9

Hypocrite Sam Graves touts his support of rural hospitals when he votes for Trump’s bill, that is going to destroy Medicaid, Medicare and our rural hospitals. Some difference President Trump sent U.S. troops to back up LA police against protesters, just like he didn’t send troops to protect capital police against the mob he himself

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It’s Your Call for June 6

It needs to stop It’s been reported that Trump is giving billionaire and mega donor Peter Thiel and his company Palantir millions of dollars to collect personal information on Americans. Authoritarians attack, prosecute and punish citizens they perceive as enemies. This collection and use of everyone’s private data to attack us is a huge danger

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It’s Your Call for June 5

A very bad decision Regarding the article in the paper about the new shopping center, senior apartments and restaurant in north St. Joseph, I think that’s a very bad decision. I think we continue sprawling out St. Joseph when we have large areas of St. Joseph that need redevelopment. We don’t need to keep sprawling

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It’s Your Call for June 3

St. Joe proud Well, it’s not official, but it looks like St. Joseph has set a new record for the most litter accumulated over just the weekend. Way to go. St. Joe proud.  Remain as they are President Trump is trying to fix things, but the Democrats and their leftist judges don’t want things fixed.

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