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By NewsPress Now It’s no Garden of Eden You know, if this town’s so fantastic to live in, this is the Garden of Eden in the Midwest, then where’s all the fantastic up-living civilians trying to get in this town and live here? You don’t see any lined up, do you? You want to know

By NewsPress Now Laugh, laugh, laugh Laugh, laugh, laugh about the sewer tax rate going up. That is horrible, terrible for this city. I am a widow on Social Security. My water bill is $20, $21 and my sewer tax bill is $53. Something is wrong there. Dangerous situation Could someone from the Parks Department

By NewsPress Now Jump off that train wreck If all American publicly traded companies were like Trump media, no one would buy stocks. In the greatest capitalistic country that ever existed, Trump’s company lost $300 million in the first quarter of 2024 on declining revenues, while paying its executives millions. If you are a stockholder,

By NewsPress Now It shouldn’t burden taxpayers For the person who informed us that sewer surcharge is a fee, not a tax, I want to inform them that that should fall under infrastructure, which should come under the general fund, not an extra expense to burden taxpayers. A detriment to the city You can call

By NewsPress Now It’s a fee, not a tax I wish people would realize that the sewer fee is not a tax. It is a user fee based on usage. Our sewer system is a utility that is owned and operated by the city. If you want to reduce your sewer fee, then reduce the

By NewsPress Now Stop raising taxes St. Joe’s wondering where all the population of the city’s going. Well, they’re raising the taxes: school taxes, sewer taxes, this tax, that tax. People can’t afford to live in this town. St. Joe, quit trying to be like Kansas City. We’re not. Quit raising all these taxes. Maybe

By NewsPress Now Going up and up Here we go again. The taxes go up and up and up. The school district wants to raise their taxes, the sewer bill’s going up 4%. With all the rate increases the last couple of years under the current administration, nobody can afford to live. It is horrible

By NewsPress Now Can’t believe it I can’t believe the City of St. Joseph is going to raise a sewer tax once again. Does the City Council or the city of St. Joseph not listen to its people? The people are tired of the sewer taxes going up and up. I, for one, am ready

By NewsPress Now Wouldn’t it be great? I’ve been doing some research on the recent one school versus two schools for the St. Joseph School District. I did some calculations, and if we go with one giant school for the city of St. Joseph, it will be the largest school in the state of Missouri

By NewsPress Now Simply ridiculous The Missouri Highway Patrol is 130 officers short. They cannot respond to accidents on U.S. highways, but our governor sends them to Texas. Ridiculous. America’s not stupid I believe all this theft with Trump happened a long time ago, before he was president the first time. The American voters can

By NewsPress Now An absolute disgrace Donald Trump is an absolute disgrace to this country. Trump has indictments against him, sexually assaulted a woman, tried to overturn election and much more. For Republicans to support this kind of behavior is even worse for our country. It’s not the Boy Scouts Now a lot of us

By NewsPress Now Strange use of the money This is the last season for Krug Park Pool because we don’t have enough money to repair it or keep a swimming pool open for the kids. However, we have $7 million to give to a private organization, the YMCA, to build their swimming pool. But we

By NewsPress Now The real news You have to watch MSNBC and CNN to get the truth about Donald Trump. FOX and Newsmax just cherry pick the items, and they cover for Trump. Working long and hard I have watched the slow degradation of this nation since the days of Vietnam. These professors have been

By NewsPress Now What’s wrong with America? What is wrong with this country? What’s going on in New York is literally ridiculous. Don’t we have the First Amendment to our Constitution anymore? They have just walked all over it, stomped on it and tried to bury it into the ground. I’m sick of what’s going

By NewsPress Now Kudos to Alonzo Kudos to Alonzo Weston for his article on mental illness in the Weekender. It definitely helps us be aware of what many go through, and that mental health is not a determinant of someone’s value. Thank you for the article. How will it survive? How can our democracy survive

By NewsPress Now It starts at home I believe in free speech. I believe in the right to protest. But I don’t believe anyone has a right to commit violence. But sadly, even though they got the Columbia incident stopped, the parents of those little anarchists will sue the NYPD because this starts at home.

By NewsPress Now Unethical behavior Unethical behavior has won again in the Missouri Legislature. Dean Plocher, Speaker of the House, was accused of using his political influence to block an ethics investigation into his misuse of state tax money and using the office to help his employer win a high dollar contract from the state

By NewsPress Now What they don’t realize I see a lot of these college campuses are protesting the financing of the Israel and Gaza war. Well, what they haven’t realized — we financed every war for the past 20 years in some way or another. Also, there was a big stink about these immigrants coming

By NewsPress Now Spend some money here I’m over here at Wyeth lookout park and the fascia boards are really rough. The roof is slowly losing its tiles. I believe I read something where the city was going to spend some money on parks. So, I’m hoping this is on it because they already spent

By NewsPress Now Platte County Chiefs I am all for the Kansas City Chiefs getting a new football stadium. I say move it to Platte County and call them the Platte County Chiefs. There’s plenty of land in Platte County. It’s in the center of everywhere so there would be plenty of parking, and it

By NewsPress Now Platte County Chiefs I am all for the Kansas City Chiefs getting a new football stadium. I say move it to Platte County and call them the Platte County Chiefs. There’s plenty of land in Platte County. It’s in the center of everywhere so there would be plenty of parking, and it

By NewsPress Now Since when? Since when has it been illegal for politicians to pay people to keep things quiet? They all do it. Good actors, but not politicians I’d just like to say to Michael Douglas and Mark Hamill, I used to like guys as actors. But you are not good politicians. When you

By NewsPress Now Glad to see it I am glad to see Senator McConnell and some other Republican leadership stand up to Trump and Putin’s favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene. Absolutely the opposite I was just looking at a couple of old notes, and the News-Press said, four years ago, we had the lowest inflation and

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.