It’s Your Call

Thank you, Rep. Shields This call is in praise of Representative Brenda Shields. I just had a situation in my life, actually my wife and mine’s life, that we just had no solution for. And so, I emailed Brenda Shields. Unbelievably with the health that woman is facing and this time of year, she took

Can’t have both Is St. Joseph deteriorating, as a caller recently declared, or is it failing, as another proclaimed in the same day? Or are St. Joseph citizens failing their city? Only about 25% of registered voters bothered to vote on Election Day in nonpartisan elections. The majority of this 25% have come to favor

The city is deteriorating I’m calling about a couple of comments in It’s Your Call about the shape of St. Joseph. Yes, St. Joseph is in a sad shape. It’s deteriorating. It’s dirty. The white signs on the corners, the post saying what street it is, most of them you can’t even read. They used

Looked it up in the dictionary This is my first trip back to St. Joseph in 25 years. Once I got here, I grabbed the dictionary and looked under the term failing city, and there was St. Joseph, Missouri.  Makes no sense Why do we send our St. Joseph sewer bill payment to Kansas City? 

Have a Merry Christmas I sincerely hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. Shouldn’t they be the Navy fleet? Trump has ordered a bunch of brand-new battleships. He is going to call them Trump’s Golden Fleet. Shouldn’t they be the U.S. Navy fleet since the taxpayers are paying for it?

You need to read between the lines If people would just read between the lines, Trump and the other world order partners are trying to just take over Venezuela for their oil. Nothing more.  Shame on you all The Kansas City Chiefs leaving Kansas City, you can only blame three people for this. Frank White,

A couple of duds Well, I see where Kehoe dropped the ball, and Quinton Lucas dropped the ball, and the Chiefs are moving to Kansas. What a couple of duds. And that goes for Hawley and Graves and Schmitt. They’re not worried about the people that voted for them one iota.  What happened to America

Cost to the taxpayers I was just in the state office building downtown, and I see where Missouri State employees not only getting Christmas off, but Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas. I’m no Scrooge, but I’m wondering what this costs to Missouri State taxpayers and our budget. Just wondering How many of the

Never count these people out I did see something on the news that is exactly true. I mean, people have ruled out Crockett for senate, and they’ve said AOC doesn’t have a chance. No, don’t bet on it. I mean, for God’s sake, they put Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Now, if you can

An issue for the working class Affordability is not an issue for billionaires and those who got the giant tax breaks. Affordability is an issue for the rest of us working Americans.  Are you proud? President Trump’s rant last night had so many exaggerations, outright lies. It’s probably going to take until the new year

The greatest gift  I unfortunately spent the last few days in the local hospital. Last place anyone wants to be, especially this time of year. After finding my health issue and correcting it, I’ll be able to spend Christmas with the family I love. Greatest gift ever. Thank you ER staff, James, Callie, Marcus on

It’s supply and demand Fact check: Gas prices are lower because of supply and demand in the winter months, not anything that Trump has done. Would’ve been hypocritical Rob Reiner hated President Trump. He made no bones about it. He accused President Trump of despicable things. For President Trump to say something good about Rob

That’s what will happen For those who do not understand economics, when the price of fuel or gasoline comes down, the price of electricity comes down, so the price of production comes down. The cost of transportation comes down, so the cost of producing and moving goods is less, so goods cost less. That’s what’s

What about groceries? To that person who wanted to thank Trump for $2.37 gas, I wonder if they want to thank him for the price of groceries. Gas might be cheaper to go to the grocery store, but why go? Because you can’t afford the prices once you get there. So, I’ll take lower groceries

Curious about bridge status I’d like to know what the status is on the Gene Field Bridge. If we’re going to replace it, let’s get started and tear it down. Let’s do something. It’s wait, wait, wait, and it’s time to get something started. It’s an inconvenience for the entire city for that bridge to

Government by the government for the government President Reagan said it best when he states government is not the solution, it is the problem. Presently, the state of Missouri passed a law which offers a discount to senior citizens on their property tax. It allows the county to freeze the tax base. However, the value

Pack it up already I wish Chuck Schumer would take his ill-gotten gains and get out of politics. I’ll cut them down myself I read in It’s Your Call the other day about a caller complaining about utility poles not being pulled out of the ground after being replaced with new ones. I agree. In

He’s doing it You guys remember when Harris and Trump was running against each other? You remember what Harris kept telling America? If you guys put this person in office, he’s going to destroy America. And he’s doing it.  Selling out our country It’s costing about $20 to 30 million a day to keep that

Only reason he’s disappointed Trump is disappointed that President Zelenskyy won’t give Russia everything that it wants to end the war so Trump can claim that he stopped another war.  Suburban sprawl is horrible I was sad to read about the suburban sprawl that St. Joseph is planning but not surprised. I think it would

What happened to quality control? I have an issue with the telephone company and the TV services that are mounted on poles in Saint Joseph. I live at a property where they put new electric utility poles in and the phone company and cable vision is still attached to the old pole, they said they

Only in the government The front page in Tuesday’s paper said revenues for the school district are declining. Certainly, revenues from the government are declining as they are tied to the number of students, but overall spending has increased dramatically. Only in government speak can you say I wanted a 20% increase, but only got

The harsh reality I hope the people in St. Joseph that are so desperately clinging on to the idea of the continuation of three high schools in the area saw the front page of Tuesday’s paper. Revenues are declining and the population of St. Joseph is declining. The school board cannot afford to keep three

Makes no sense You know, President Trump tells Maduro to get out of his own country and Venezuela. Tells him just to get out, threatens him, or he’s going to blow him up. But he won’t tell Putin to get out of Ukraine. It’s not his country. But he tells Maduro to get out of

Light up the statue Everybody’s talking about how much money the city spends. How come they haven’t spent no money putting floodlights on the Pony Express horse? You’d think they’d be all proud of St. Joe. Then put some lights on so people can see it.  Didn’t give a hoot Well, I see now some

War crime I just watched the news, and they shot another alleged drug boat. There were survivors, so they attacked the boat a second time to kill the survivors. This is a war crime.   This is what happens The founding fathers wanted three equal branches of government. And we’re seeing right now what happens

Hates the truth Trump hates the truth so much that he’s willing to send the FBI to intimidate the six people who all they did was state the facts.  The exact same songs Has anybody ever listened to radio stations in this town? How they play the exact same music? They just switch the tracks

No common sense Who in their right mind tells the U.S. troops they can disobey orders? Do they not have any common sense? We do not need this kind of a breakdown in our troops today.  He’s an authoritarian When you get into the military, the first thing you do is swear allegiance to the

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