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Your letters for Aug. 2, 2024

By NewsPress Now Your letters for Aug. 2, 2024 A big thank you to all who helped I am writing this letter to thank numerous individuals and businesses who helped make the 2024 St. Joseph Madam President Camp a success. Madam President Camp was founded in 2012 in Kansas City Missouri by Dr. Lee Smithson

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Hot days make for hotter cars

By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist After a blistering end to July, heat is continuing to make headlines across the heartland with the start of August, perhaps unsurprisingly, as late summer is prime time for slow-motion heat waves to roll across the central United States. This season has certainly delivered thus far, especially over the

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Memories of a vibrant Lake Contrary

By Alonzo Weston When I drive down by Lake Contrary, or what once was a lake, I remember what it used to be and what it could be again. Signs there heralding what once was historic Lake Contrary now welcome visitors to a lake bed of two-foot-high weeds and debris. I remember on hot days

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It’s Your Call for Aug. 1

By NewsPress Now They have to be stopped I’m calling about this light company. You know, people can’t afford the light bill now the way they’ve got it. I can’t have my air on between 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. because I can’t afford the extra money. And they want another raise? There has got to

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It’s Your Call for July 30

By NewsPress Now Odd requirements Apparently to run for office in Missouri on the Republican ticket, you must own an AR15 or a flame thrower. What’s going on in America? Focus on Congress first I just heard over the radio this morning that the politicians want to put term limits on the Supreme Court. Maybe

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It’s Your Call for July 29

By NewsPress Now Follow the money The Chiefs and Royals do need to move, but not to Kansas. Jackson County is a large county but there is too much poverty. Platte County is the wealthiest county in Northwest Missouri. The perfect spot to build new stadiums is southeast of the airport along I-435. Go where

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MU vs KU: Where the problems all began!

By Bob Ford Special to Articles and podcasts are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Eagle Communications, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join in supporting this 503©(3) organization, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. In 1860, Osceola, Missouri, was the third largest city in the state, right

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MU vs KU: Where the problems all began!

By Bob Ford Special to Articles and podcasts are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Eagle Communications, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join in supporting this 503©(3) organization, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. In 1860, Osceola, Missouri, was the third largest city in the state, right

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It’s Your Call for July 26

By NewsPress Now Better off If Donald Trump was more like Joe Biden with honesty and integrity and putting country over power, our country would be so much better off. Believing their lies They say a pathological liar actually begins to believe his own lies after he’s told him often enough. I think Joe Biden

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The ‘dog days of summer’ are here to stay

By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist The air has been heavy, afternoons long and temperatures high across the Mid-Missouri River Valley for what seems like an eternity. It’s official, the “dog days of summer” have arrived with the end of July, but what does this age-old phrase actually mean? According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac,

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Your letters for July 26, 2024

By NewsPress Now Your letters for July 26, 2024 Show teachers they are valued Among several norms that I committed to when joining the Saint Joseph School District Board of Education this past April was to “serve as an advocate for K-12 public education with student achievement/outcomes as the focus.” Advocating for public education comes

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Prop S deserves a ‘yes’ vote

By NewsPress Now A proposed 60% pay increase should send morale through the roof, but some observers noticed a surprisingly tepid response to a significant development in starting salaries for Missouri teachers. It isn’t that school officials lacked appreciation for legislation that seeks to raise starting pay from $25,000 to $40,000 in Missouri, where teaching

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Bring local back to our business community

By Alonzo Weston I read the other day in the St. Joseph News-Press Midweek edition that business is expanding in the southeast part of the city. The article touted the grand opening of the new Reed Chevrolet facilities along Commonwealth Court near Menards. Forgive me for waxing nostalgic, but I remember when the area was

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It’s Your Call for July 25

By NewsPress Now Have you heard this one? Did you hear the one about the felon and the prosecutor that walked into a bar in Milwaukee? They were late for the presidential debate. Something needs to be done Something needs to be done about the unwanted phone calls and text messages from politicians. I called

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It’s Your Call for July 23

By NewsPress Now Terrible mistake, in my opinion I’m calling about the Missouri Western State University Athletic Department. They just made a decision, I understand, to take their ball games off of KFEQ radio. For me, that’s a terrible mistake on their part. Lots of lies I just heard Hakeem Jefferies praise Biden as the

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It’s Your Call for July 22

By NewsPress Now Business as usual Well, good news, St. Joseph. I see we have a new police chief, but that’s not the good news. The good news is it’s business as usual. No checking for outdated drivers license plates and no chasing the bad guys. In other words, it’s business as usual. Before they

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I’m so tired of deleting spam, don’t do that, fry it!

By Bob Ford Special to Articles and podcasts are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Eagle Communications, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join in supporting this 503©(3) organization, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. If you got spammed in Austin, Minnesota, you weren’t thinking about annoying emails.

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Make America great for all of us

By Alonzo Weston Everybody knows by now that a lone gunman made an assassination attempt on former president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump last Saturday while addressing a campaign rally near Buller, Pennsylvania. We also know the shooter was a 20-year-old man described as a loner and bullied oddball who was a registered

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It’s Your Call for July 12

By NewsPress Now Get on the ball, St. Joe I was calling about the senior citizens. You know, there’s other states that’s passed and towns that have passed for the senior citizens to not to pay property tax so they can have money to buy their food and their medication and other things they desperately

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