It’s Your Call

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

Paying for their mistakes So, let me see if I get this right. The city has decided that after years and years of neglect, I am now supposed to pay for what they have decided they have to repair on the city sewer. I’ve just now come to age to where I get to pay

Make it fair Instead of the city raising our sewer bills and having our local people who live here and who are taxed enough, why not have an earnings tax for all the people who come to St. Joseph, use our streets, use our sewer, and then take their paycheck back to their home cities

Just a suggestion This continued increase in the city sewer tax fee is not a good idea. The city administration is going to have to come up with a different way to cover the cost of this. Might I suggest the city start issuing tickets to people that do not have the appropriate licensing on

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

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

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

Won’t be doing that I received a letter in the mail yesterday about how both of my dogs’ city licenses are expired and that I need to renew them. So, today I was trying to find out if I can renew them at the shelter or at City Hall. I’ve been informed no, you can

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.

Lean to build a town I don’t know how that mayor could sit there and say everything’s looking up. If you look at the last 20 years, St. Joe, this town is in worse shape now than it ever has been. For me, as far as I can remember, it’s three steps backwards and one

Useless spending I see the city is coming up and spending more money for an aquatic center indoors. I don’t know how they spend our money. I wish Donald Trump would come here and fire everyone on the school board and everyone in the city hall. And if the Police Department doesn’t step up, they

Completely different The person who called in and said FOX News is really FOX Entertainment, there is FOX News where they report and let you decide, unlike CNN, MSNBC, ABC and CBS, who report liberal bias and try to convince you they are right. Then there is FOX Entertainment. Completely different from FOX News.  Laughingstock Donald

News entertainment To the person who said that everybody should watch FOX News to get their real news, well, if you’ve watched anything but FOX News, you would realize that several years ago, FOX was took to court and they lost their right to call themselves a news agency. The only thing they can call

Put it to a vote I read the editorial about dredging Lake Contrary and agree with it 100%. As a matter of fact, I think it would be fair to the Buchanan County residents to put something like that to a vote and let the whole county decide how they want to spend their tax

Nobody voted to rob the middle class Trump wants a $45 million military parade on his birthday. We’re also paying $3.3 million for everyone at his weekend trip to play golf at Mar-a-Lago. And he wants to hide a huge, expensive tax break for the wealthiest few in the country. At the same time, he’s

Take care of the locals Our city leaders keep handing out our tax dollars like candy on Halloween and or giving tax breaks to millionaires who don’t even live in the state of Missouri. We should not be giving tax dollars to nonprofits, and we shouldn’t be giving tax breaks to people who don’t live

Organization that covers stories about veterans In response to the thank you veterans that was in May 19th. There is an organization called patriotfeatures.org, that you can see stories about all different veterans, and Larry is one of the veterans that has his story on patriotfeatures.org. People need to shift focus People need to quit

Want to know why? I know two landlords on the east side of town that owns major properties out there, apartment buildings and houses and anything else they rent them out. They don’t have to do the rental inspection. I want to know why. What makes them so special that they don’t have to do

Thank you veterans Respect on the front page of the paper for the 100-year-old veteran of World War 2. I used to know several of those guys. There’s very, very, very few of them left. I truly hope society, education or someone finds a way to pass their stories. What they did, what they sacrificed

What is the hold up? I’ve called several times about the mess they have at S. 36th St. They’ve been over there almost two years now working on that one corner. Is this the city’s laziness trying to draw more money out of the people here in Saint Joe? They can’t seem to get the

Who to actually address I see in the Wednesday, May 14, 2025, Midweek the article talking about Motorcycle Safety Month, and they’re advising people to be extra alert and to share the road responsibly, to make sure that the drivers slow down. I think you need to talk to the people that ride motorcycles, especially

Do what’s right for the citizens I can’t understand our city leaders. They have the money to carry up a nice-looking wall around Civic Center Park. They have the money to give a nonprofit organization $7 million for a pool, but they don’t have the money to put in streetlights, sidewalks or fix our streets.

Do something about it When is the mayor and the Police Department of the City of St. Joseph going to get off their backsides and do something about these people that are driving around on temporary tags that have been expired for a year, six months, two years, whatever? If these people can’t afford to

Just ask them The next time you vote for a state representative in Buchanan County, ask them if they voted to give $50,000,000 to private and church schools and not fund our public schools.  A lot better Now that they’re going to fix Lake Contrary, they need the residents around there to be put on

Answer this for me It’s amazing. Our current administration keeps finding more ways that past administrations seemed to want to waste millions and trillions of dollars. Maybe one of these days, we can cut out enough of those wasted dollars that our tax dollars will actually go down. But in the meantime, we still have

We have one Somebody wrote in It’s Your Call called a “spineless Congress.” We have one of them right here in Missouri. He’s called Sam Graves.  Nobody left Just think. If Trump was in office during the Vietnam War protests, there wouldn’t have been anybody left in the United States.  It’s a distraction Donald Trump

Start paving some streets I would like to know what happened to all the money we sent in for the Street department. I haven’t seen any crews out fixing potholes. I have not seen any crews coming down the 1300 block on S 24th St. It’s rough, and I think that this street should be paved.

Who will be left? Now, once St. Joe chases out all their reliable residents, who are they going to have left? Who’s going to work these factories? Who’s going to pay them sewer bills? Who’s going to mow grass? Who’s going to take care of the streets? Once they chase out everybody that’s decent here,

Makes no sense They said they couldn’t possibly keep the pool in operation when the YMCA was Downtown. But now that it’s on the east side, they can install new a new pool and keep it going.  Look on the bright side I’ve lived in a lot of towns. I’m here for one reason, because

Why us? Someone discussed what was noted in It’s Your Call about the city not taking care of the alleys or the drainage tubes at the end of the alley. You call in, they say they’re going to call you back. There were four times last year I called, never received a call back. And then