Opinion

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