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By NewsPress Now Suggestions for using the money I heard on the news that the city council and the city manager will be considering how to spend COVID money over the next year. I would suggest very strongly that some of that money be spent to actually relieve the burden of the citizens of St.

By NewsPress Now I’m proud of him I’m not a Speaker Johnson fan, but I’m sure proud of him standing up for his country, our country. It took a lot of courage. But he is the speaker of the house. A Speaker of the House not only represents his party, but all of America. And,

By NewsPress Now Just so you know I was a little shocked to see, going through the tunnels up at Krug Park, that the cars behind me were obviously not making any wishes and honking twice like you’re supposed to like we did. But nobody else did. Just so everybody knows, that’s what you’re supposed

By NewsPress Now So goes our state politics The immediate past president of the United States stands trial on felony charges. Meanwhile, Missouri’s two senators support his bid to be our next president. Meanwhile, the Missouri Speaker of the House uses the power of his office to head off investigation into his alleged misconduct. So

By NewsPress Now What’s going on now? I’m wondering why I’m getting phone calls from out of town from people I know kind of laughing about the school board issue and some gal going around throwing the F bomb at everybody. Just what’s going on with the St. Joe School Board now? Just wow Heard

By NewsPress Now Step away from the TV How about you left wingers get off CNN and MSNBC and see what’s really going on in this country? Oh my goodness, you’ve got to get away from those TV stations. Arrest them All of these pro-Palestinian demonstrations that they’re having, they should arrest anyone that is

By NewsPress Now Totally unacceptable Why are the bathrooms at Bartlett Park not working? I took my grandson over there and there were about 40 kids there playing and there was nowhere for nobody to go to bathroom. For the money we pay in parks tax, this is totally unacceptable and I’m tired of it.

By NewsPress Now They have the same leadership style When Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, he met with Viktor Orban, the pro-Putin, anti-Democratic leader of Hungary, at Mar-a-Lago. Trump and Orban made it public that they both have the same style of leadership. After many scandals, it looks like after 10 years of autocratic

By NewsPress Now Don’t ignore the old parts of town This is about the new pool proposal at the new Y. I would just suggest that if the city or anybody is going to spend any more of taxpayer money, please put it in the old parts of St. Joe. It was wonderful. We had

By NewsPress Now What gives you the right? Joe, you and the far-left Democrats, the biggest laughingstock in the world that there is, what gives you the right to talk about other people interfering in our elections when you’re trying to interfere in Israel and what’s going on in that nation? Just one question With

By NewsPress Now There are two choices We have two choices in this election. Biden, who works for the American people, or Trump, who only cares about himself and wants everyone else to pay his legal fees. Trump has indictments and felony charges against him. He paid a woman millions of dollars for sexual assault.

By NewsPress Now Avoiding more chaos This is in response to “Two Choices.” I totally agree with the caller and that’s why I will be casting my vote for Donald J. Trump to avoid four more years of utter chaos and destruction of America. Acting pretty bizarre I get it that the solar eclipse is

By NewsPress Now Thank you, Parks and Rec Just like to give a shout out to the Parks and Recreation department for cleaning up King Hill. My wife and I were up there. The view is fantastic. Now all we need to do is redo that road up on the hill. Curb appeal is important

By NewsPress Now Grateful but sad We can be grateful I suppose that 22.5% of registered voters took part in Tuesday’s election, but the sad thing is 77.5% of voters cared so little about local government that they simply stayed at home. Denied the opportunity Four more states are allowed to vote in a primary

By NewsPress Now Hip hip hooray Hip hip hooray for the Kansas City people that voted down the increased tax for the Chiefs and Royals. Have the owners open up their pocketbooks and buy it themselves. They don’t need help from the public. Article was right on I work in a business where we mail

By NewsPress Now Figure it out This is concerning the St. Joseph School Board business. Instead of worrying about building new high schools and stuff, why don’t they figure out a way to solve the parking and picking and dropping off kids around Mark Twain, Truman and Central, because the traffic there is congested. How

By NewsPress Now Using their instincts Polls suggest that church attendance is down across the board, but I would contend that people are praying harder than ever. I think instinctively people know the world’s in trouble. Not proper justice I’ve been watching with interest the story of Alex Murdaugh, who has just been sentenced to

By NewsPress Now More interested in test scores A school district administrator here said we need to put turf on the football fields so we can compete better with Kansas City-area schools. I’m more interested in test scores and what to do about that. Getting outrageous My dog and I were just about run over

By NewsPress Now Modern Three Stooges Yeah, I see where Clinton and Obama’s going to campaign for Biden. I would call this the modern day Three Stooges: Moe, Curly and Larry. No improvement For those of you that voted yes in the Ping Poll on the economy improving, what country do you live in? I

By NewsPress Now Something to show for it I see that Trump is selling stock for his Truth Social media platform and could pull in billions. I would rather own his gold-colored tennis shoes. At least you’d have something to show for your money. Blowing their horn When Biden took office, gasoline was around $2.00

By NewsPress Now Shift the priorities I noticed the other day in the News-Press that Chief Luster says we can’t arrest our way out of this issue, referring to the homeless issue in St. Joseph. He’s probably right, but maybe we should devote less money to trail bike riding in St. Joseph, maybe a little

By NewsPress Now Would be nice if something’s done This is about the road conditions on Karnes Ave. I don’t know if you’ve driven it lately, but it’s nothing but holes. It would be nice if the city or the county or whoever is responsible would fix it or at least patch the holes until

By NewsPress Now Looks good so far I pass the monument for the stockyards every day. The chemical company has left the livestock exchange entrance, and I think it’s very nice, and I’m just kind of wondering when it’ll be finished and just what all else they’re gonna add to it or just exactly what

By NewsPress Now Pay taxes somewhere Two Republican governor candidates want to eliminate income tax. But in states who don’t have income tax, in Wyoming, it costs hundreds of dollars a year to register your vehicle. So, they’re going to pay a tax somewhere. Great except for the price This is about Lake Contrary dredging.

By NewsPress Now Sell, sell, sell This is in regard to the schools. I have grandchildren in a couple of different schools here in the city. A couple of weeks ago, some of them were selling major saver cards. Now they’ve got them selling Red Wheel, the food items that are pretty costly for an

By NewsPress Now Other options Thank you for the article about Lake Contrary. I know they said there were just a few options, having the county own it or the city or privately. I think they forgot the Missouri Department of Conservation. That lake is really important for wildlife during the migrations, the pelicans come,

By NewsPress Now Need consistent laws If a pregnant woman is kicked in the stomach by her boyfriend and it causes a miscarriage, the boyfriend will likely be charged with both assault and second-degree murder. Most women agree that the murder charge should be included, even if the pregnancy is just a month or two

By NewsPress Now Big thank you I just wanted to thank so much the people that put together the St. Patrick’s Day parade. I’m sure it’s a lot of work and the people that participated, that is a perfect example of bringing people together post-pandemic. I think that we have so many fewer opportunities post-pandemic

By NewsPress Now Can’t make up their minds Observing and reading all about all that is going on with the St. Joseph’s school board, I have to ask how the school board can feel confident that the $20 million bond has a chance of passing. A month ago, they were going to stay with the

By NewsPress Now Got to do something I just wonder how many people have to leave St. Joseph before people understand that we’ve got to do something different here. I mean, we just never support our schools like we should. The state doesn’t even do it. There are so many things wrong and we just