Opinion

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,

By NewsPress Now Pray they come around I spent some time tonight talking with my Lord. I really have been down the last few days. The election when the way I hoped and prayed it would. I hope that they can turn things around. My fear is that this country is so divided, and I

By NewsPress Now It’s going to get worse I see where the trash service is going to go up. If you look around, St. Joe’s got so much trash on the streets, everywhere in the yards, you think it’s not going to get worse. People going to start throwing their bags of trash out in

By NewsPress Now Just a question Seeing Monday morning’s paper where Buchanan County is moving forward with spraying the weeds at Lake Contrary, why are we spraying the weeds at Lake Contrary in November when they’ll be frosted over and frozen and die? Just a question. Agree with objection I just heard about how they’re

By NewsPress Now All they’ve gotta do I’m just sitting here listening to some of the Democrats talk about what it’s going to cost to deport all these illegals in this country. Who cares what it costs? It doesn’t have to cost anything. They can walk in, they can just as easily walk out, take

By NewsPress Now They have class There’s one thing Republicans can’t take away from Democrats. They have class and are trustworthy and care about our democracy unlike convicted felon Trump and all his loyalists who will now run our government. He’s eminently qualified Whoopi Goldberg and “The View” complained because Pete Hegseth was a commentator

By NewsPress Now How will that work? I see in the paper where the city’s wanting to raise the landfill fees because we’re running out of ground to dump our waste in. Well, that’s a real smart move because this is what we get with these people running our city. We don’t have enough room

By NewsPress Now Disappointed I was disappointed after I read the article. St. Smarts by Alonzo Weston in Friday’s edition of the St. Joseph News-Press. We should be optimistic about what America has spoken for, its division like that that we don’t need in this country. And I think it would be better served to

By NewsPress Now Believe it or not I believe the city streets department of the City of St. Joseph deserves to be on “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” It is taking them longer to patch North 36th St. and Robin Lane between Karnes Road and Chris Hessler than it took MoDOT to rebuild a complete