By Alonzo Weston Friend and former News-Press editorial page editor Mark Sheehan used to allow himself two columns a year about the Kansas City Chiefs. I’ll allow myself only one maybe ever. Here it goes. The Kansas City Chiefs this year give everyone near heart attacks with their last-minute wins over opponents. You can call
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles, podcasts and YouTube videos are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Eagle Communications, Nodaway Valley Bank, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. If you love history, we are seeking sponsors to run this column. To comment or join in supporting this non-profit, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com.
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Dec. 6, 2024 Wind mills more good news? Oil and hydraulic fluid deterioration leads to critical failures. Other areas that cause oil leakages include deteriorating seal rings, blocked oil filters, and if oil pressure is too high, pipe ruptures can occur. Another problem that occurs inevitably is the contamination
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By NewsPress Now Imagine if Mayor John Josendale had a hotline on his desk that allowed him to make one emergency call to a former municipal leader. Josendale might choose David Jones, the mayor who took his share of lumps after proposing a franchised trash service in St. Joseph. The advice from Jones might be,
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By Alonzo Weston The shingle on our nation’s door partly reads “Give me your tired, your poor …” Today, flip the sign over and it reads “Sorry, we’re closed.” Where once we ostensibly welcomed immigrants to our shores, we now work hard to close our borders. President-elect Donald Trump has said one of his first
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist The first snowflakes of the season fell over parts of Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas last weekend, amounting to only a trace of accumulation in St. Joseph, where a light dusting of white coated parts of the landscape for just a few short hours. Meanwhile, enough snow came down
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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
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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
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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
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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
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Nov. 29, 2024 Why, America? Women’s Suffrage Amendment; Securities and Exchange Act; Social Security Act; Unemployment Compensation Act; Rural Electrification Act; Federal Home Loan Act; 40-hour work week; minimum wage; over time; G.I. Bill; school lunch; Marshall Plan; NATO; Peace Corps; first manned moon mission; Civil Rights Act; Head
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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
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now One of St. Joseph’s endearing quirks involves the frenzied response to any new restaurant or fast-food opening. On one occasion, police established traffic control for the crowds at a highly anticipated Belt Highway eatery. St. Joseph loves its fast food. Many in our community also love Donald Trump, so much so that
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Thanksgiving 2024 felt more like winter than late fall across the Mid-Missouri River Valley, as polar air kept the temperature in the 30s for most of the holiday. While several degrees below average, this was far from the coldest turkey day in St. Joseph, with a range of temperatures
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By Alonzo Weston Most of you know this post-holiday weekend for all the Christmas shopping bargains to be had. It’s ironic to me because all the consumerism comes just after we give thanks for all we have. Yes, Thanksgiving is mostly celebrated with gluttony and football instead of truly giving thanks, but we’re grateful to
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles, podcasts and YouTube videos are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Eagle Communications, Nodaway Valley Bank, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join in supporting this non-profit, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. If you love history, we are seeking sponsors to run this column,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles, podcasts and YouTube videos are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Eagle Communications, Nodaway Valley Bank, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join in supporting this non-profit, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. President Abraham Lincoln liked to make proclamations, everything from emancipation, freeing the
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now We’ve all heard the promises to “bring manufacturing back.” This kind of talk produces an extra sting in St. Joseph, a city that lost its share of manufacturing jobs two decades ago. After the factory doors closed for good, it didn’t take long for the politicians to insert industrial renewal into the
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Nov. 22, 2024 Liberal bias A liberal journalist may retire, but they never go away! Alonzo, the difference between liberals and conservatives was mentioned in your assessment of MAGA. Some people don’t feel that way. Conservatives think that way. As Americans, we have to take the feel out of
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By Alonzo Weston When Nov. 22 rolls around on the calendar I can’t say it affects me the same way it does when Sept. 11 comes up. It is in no way a matter of importance but rather due to how I experienced both events. When John Kennedy, our 35th president, was assassinated on Nov.
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