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By NewsPress Now Some free advice to the city Here’s some free advice for the City of St. Joe. Those downtown multi-level parking lots are nothing but bathrooms for the homeless. Knock them down and put in regular open parking lots. There would still be plenty of parking spaces for any event that’s held downtown.

By NewsPress Now New faces needed After watching all this football, I feel there should be a lot of new, shiny faces on some of them teams. The coaches and offensive coordinators, and my God, some of them are a mess. There ain’t no excuse for that, especially like Chicago and some of them. New

By NewsPress Now When will it stop? Evergy this summer wanted everybody to pick on what savings they wanted to do on electrical bills. Now I see in the paper they want it increased. So, they want increase that we’re saving money, and they want an increase now? When is this going to stop? A

By NewsPress Now The city’s dropping the ball on streets I called in about 3 months ago about part of the street that is missing in front the driveway on Oakland Ave. Nothing’s ever been done. The city’s dropping the dropping the ball on getting the street and the curbs fixed like it’s supposed to

By NewsPress Now Come together for the holidays In a time of such division in the United States, I hope we can all come together and enjoy the holidays. Merry Christmas to all. Can someone explain? Could someone please explain to us on N 36th St. and Karnes Rd. why the city has been screwing

By NewsPress Now Shouldn’t be allowed I called about an e-bike that was going about 25, I would guess, miles an hour. The guy had a ski mask on, right on this narrow Parkway path. I actually had to go out to the grass because I didn’t want him to hit me. Today, we had

By NewsPress Now Keep them coming The Bob Ford articles are great. Keep them coming. What’s going on? I understand that many employers didn’t want to opt into the Social Security system, but rather went with a pension. Now, all the sudden, they want to give 3 million people Social Security who don’t deserve it

By NewsPress Now Reuse the land we have I just wanted to comment about the 10 acres acquired for future development. When is this city and the world, some cities have recognized the inability of us to keep eating up undeveloped land. We’re going to end up with a world that is not worth living

By NewsPress Now Going without clean drinking water I just want to say that representatives, the Department of Natural Resources and the Governor’s Office, they have all failed Maysville, Missouri, citizens. These people have been without clean drinking water for months and months and months. I have called all these offices. Would be nice to

By NewsPress Now Increase in security St. Joe School District needs to figure out a way immediately to put a safety officer in every school. It will be too late after something like happened yesterday in Wisconsin happens. Lying to the people Concerning the issue of the drone being seen in several states here in

By NewsPress Now Shouldn’t be subsidizing trash Buchanan County taxpayers should not be subsidizing trash coming in from Kansas City, surrounding areas and Kansas. Either raise the fee significantly for out-of-county trash haulers or tell them they can’t dump at the local landfill. On another note, the landfill needs to be a better neighbor to

By NewsPress Now What they should do I should say that they should raise the price at the dump for anybody that doesn’t reside in the Buchanan County area. Those people get the discount price, but anybody outside of St. Joseph should have to pay double. That’s what they should do. One of the solutions

By NewsPress Now How much longer? I was wondering how much longer it take the city to fix 36th St. That thing’s been closed almost a year. Why don’t they hire Herzog? They’ll do it right the first time. The city’s dragging their feet, putting an inconvenience for everybody who needs to get down that

By NewsPress Now Why we can’t have nice things I just heard report on the news about somebody stealing from the Holiday Park Joseph and baby Jesus. This is why St. Joe can’t have anything. I mean, what do we have to do? Put security around every display that makes sure somebody doesn’t steal it?

By NewsPress Now Hate on the government I just realized why people hate the government. I went to a St. Joseph’s City Council meeting and witnessed incompetence on an extreme level. They need to figure it out Concerning the drones that are flying over the state of New Jersey and have been for about three

By NewsPress Now Alarming to see It’s alarming to see how many pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are on the Fortune 500 list. They continue to increase our premiums and reduce the coverage, and they continue to pay high salaries and bonuses to their top executives. Very alarming. Could have been spent somewhere else The

By NewsPress Now Why is the road shut down? I was wondering if anybody knows why they shut that road down that goes off of Faraon St. and Jules over towards East Hills, Dollar Tree and Office Depot. I mean, does anybody know why they shut it down or they going to reopen it or

By NewsPress Now What crimes have they committed? I heard on the news this morning that the White House is considering pardons for people like Cheney, Schiff and Fauci. What? Someone tell me what crimes they’ve committed. If you’re going to pardon, they must have committed a crime. I’d like to know what crimes these

By NewsPress Now Good luck I just got one thing to say to the city. Good luck on getting any more of your tax sales tax, school tax, any type of a tax pass, because people won’t be able to afford it. They got to pay it all to the trash man to get their

By NewsPress Now Filling in from out of state It’s too bad St. Joe has to go out of the city, out of the state to get a new city manager. I’m sure there’s someone here in St. Joe that would take it if they just let him do his job. That we have to

By NewsPress Now Pretty rich I think we always knew that when it came down to it that President Biden would pardon his son. However, it’s pretty rich in the statement he makes that he was singled out by his political opponents and that no other reasonable person would have ever looked at this and

By NewsPress Now Makes no sense According to the newspaper, you cannot be on the St. Joseph School Board if you’re a convicted felon, but apparently you can be President of the United States. Not Super Bowl contenders I watched the Chiefs game, the later part of it again. They’re not a Super Bowl qualified

By NewsPress Now Shouldn’t be happening I see that second Chiefs kicker has pulled a hamstring. Do these guys ever do any exercising and physical training at camp? This shouldn’t be happening if you’re in shape. Let us burn our trash About the landfill problem. Why don’t they start letting us burn our trash? Maybe

By NewsPress Now Just wait To all you people that voted for Trump, you think the economy is bad? Wait till he imposes the tariffs. Now see how high your prices are. Send them to Hollywood We live in the nuclear age. Everyone’s talking about nuclear war. You don’t have to nuke an enemy. If

By NewsPress Now $1,000,000 Tahoes I see where the city purchased 20 new Tahoes over $1,000,000. Why in the world does the city of Saint Joe Police Department need Tahoes for cars. No more patrolling that they do and vehicles sitting around. They should have bought Ford Pintos. Drive by the Police Department at any

By NewsPress Now Giving safe drivers a bad name I understand that we need to be mindful and watch for motorcycles going down the road. But when you’re sitting in a stoplight and you’re seeing somebody running 60, 70 miles an hour down the Belt Highway, popping wheelies on their bikes and running in and

By NewsPress Now Nothing but a scam St. Joe need to crack down on some of this stuff. The pan handlers on the corners and stuff have slowed down, but now there’s cars driving around, people saying they need gas money and they’re trying to sell gold jewelry, which I’m sure isn’t real gold jewelry.

By NewsPress Now They’re everywhere This is on abandoned properties. When I was a kid, you’d always see one empty house or something on the block, the scary house on the block. You go through St. Joe now and they’re everywhere. Abandoned properties are everywhere, houses boarded up, some that need to be boarded up,