By Alonzo Weston As a child of the ‘70s who just turned 70 years old, I see what a long, strange trip it’s been so far. Working as a greeter at a large store for the past few months, I see our voting or non-voting public up close. My job is to check purchase receipts
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By NewsPress Now It’s a raceway I was wondering when the police are going to be out there on Woodbine Rd. It is a raceway there. There’s people going to faster than 35 miles an hour and there’s no police officers to pull them over. Debate was interesting The VP debate was rather interesting. Walz
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By NewsPress Now Wrong state You know, this is on payment disability. I called the Missouri Disability Association the other day about getting my disability. I get a phone call back from New Jersey. New Jersey. Now I called the state of Missouri not New Jersey. See how screwed up this Midwest is, man. Really
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By NewsPress Now Don’t get the switch Before Donald Trump decided to run for president and before Elon Musk decided that he was a conservative, the media and everyone else in the world praised them or what they had done. All of a sudden now they’re terrible monsters. I don’t get the switch. Just can’t
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By NewsPress Now Just once would be nice Hey MoDOT, just once but I like to go from St. Joseph to Springfield or St. Louis or Hannibal or even Kansas City without having my teeth knocked out. Congrats, LaVell I’m really glad that LaVell Rucker won “Social Worker of the Year” in Missouri. She really
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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. “The Saloon” … you’ve seen the movie a thousand times, a gunslinger
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By Brian Kingston Submitted to Brian Kingston is manager of the Purina manufacturing facility in St. Joseph. The way our pets enjoy nature is inspiring — bounding along the lakefront or stalking through backyard grass. As I think about making a difference in my local community and caring for the planet for my own pets
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By NewsPress Now Do your homework So far, every single political ad that I’ve heard for Kamala Harris has been lies about Trump. People, you need to do your homework before you vote. It’s very important. Needs some fact checking To that person who thinks Trump could bring the deficit down and negotiate with foreign
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Sept. 27, 2024 Inquiries to Harris Harris in normal times advocated the most left-wing policies imaginable, often to prove her liberal purity before adoring audiences (Harris had the hardest left voting record in the U.S. Senate.) In a debate or interview, I would pose a number of questions to
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By NewsPress Now This is the time of year when people enjoy a good scare. In the horror genre, the best movies contain a false ending. The characters may believe the crisis is over, but the audience knows better. Sure enough, here comes Jason or Michael with a chainsaw or an ax. Northwest Missouri farmers
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist The Mid-Missouri River Valley is rarely impacted by tropical systems, which can occasionally spread moisture into this part of the country depending on their track inland. Even so, major hurricanes making landfall in the United States often capture national attention for the sheer magnitude of their fury. Hurricane Helene
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By Alonzo Weston As the St. Joseph School district searches for a superintendent yet again, I see deja vu. Current superintendent Gabe Edgar has announced his intent to retire after the end of the current school year. I’ve lost count of how many superintendents we’ve been through since the 2015 Fred Czerwonka-Dan Colgan disaster that
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By NewsPress Now Just wondering Missouri executed Marcellus Williams. And I’ve always wanted an answer to the question, why do we kill people to prove killing is wrong? Just wondering. When it comes down to it… Once again, when it comes down to what’s the difference between Trump and Harris: Trump can negotiate with foreign
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By NewsPress Now Idea regarding traffic law violations No longer going to arrest people who flaunt the laws of our traffic rules or the courts and are in contempt of court by failing to show. I have an idea, why don’t we just impound their car, give them 30 days to pay their fine, keeps
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By NewsPress Now Explain it to me Can someone please explain to me what is so wrong with MAGA? The Democrats seem to think the term MAGA is such a poisonous term, when MAGA defined means “Make America Great Again.” That’s all I think anyone in this country of America should want, is our country
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By NewsPress Now Focus on priorities first Yeah, money for a skate park, but the city can’t trim trees or take care of drainage issues. Outstanding airshow This last Sunday, September 15, my wife and I went to the St. Joseph Sound of Speed Airshow at Rosecrans Memorial Airport and were treated with the most
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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. It would be the most difficult and life changing decision one would
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By NewsPress Now Ain’t seen nothing I would like to know how come they don’t do anything with Lake Ave. down there. It’s been like that for about 10 years. All they got is potholes up and down and everything else. They said they was going to do something with it this year. I ain’t
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Sept. 20, 2024 Sports betting and school funding Haven’t we heard this before, if we pass a bill, i.e. lottery, it would be a windfall for schools, and now here we go again, pass the sports betting bill and see all the money going to schools. Well, fool me
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now Every so often, a presidential or vice presidential debate produces a zinger that transcends the current race and goes down in history. Ronald Reagan was a master of the one-liner. In 1984, he stood on the debate stage and answered questions about his age with the memorable response, “I am not going
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Astronomical fall arrives this weekend with the autumnal equinox on Sunday. Just in time, temperatures are forecast to feel a bit more seasonable by then, after a stretch of hot and muggy September days has lingered across the Central Plains, and much of the United States for the past
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By Alonzo Weston Imagine my surprise when I picked up the newspaper last week and saw in the obits that Dennis Marcinko had died. Dennis was one of those people who you felt would always be around. Most of us knew him as the guy who walked all over town. I even once wrote about
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By NewsPress Now Does it make sense? The City of St. Joseph wants to spend $400,000 on a skate park when students are walking on the edge of the road at Pickett and Spring Garden schools. Does that make sense? Blame themselves This one’s to “Giving and taking.” After COVID, what were businesses and people
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By NewsPress Now I’ve got an idea So, I hear the city just doesn’t know what to do with all that marijuana tax money. Well, here, I’ve got an idea: Fix the boat dock down in front of the city. Put it towards sewer bills I have a great idea for the marijuana tax that
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By NewsPress Now Why can’t they open it up? I’d like to again call about the S. 36th St. They’re not doing anything there on that street, but they’ve got it closed off. If they’re not going to do anything to it, why can’t they open it up? It’s a problem, a lot of us
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By NewsPress Now You can tell You can tell school’s back on simply by looking at the litter on Southwest Blvd. It’s always trashier when school’s on. Trump’s scared Harris won the debate big time. Trump lost, so now he says he’s not going to have another debate. Trump’s scared to. Nice saying “Those who
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By Joe Guzzardi Cagle Syndicate Viewers who tuned in to the highly anticipated debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris left disappointed. Harris’ supporters wished she had taken the opportunity to clear up why she has U-turned on so many issues like fracking, the border wall, universal health care, and her mandatory gun buy-back program.
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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. The walls were closing in on the North as 1862 came to
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By NewsPress Now What will she give? I listened to Vice President Harris talking about how she’s going to give away $50,000 to start a new business. $25,000 for first time home buyers, $6000 if you’ve got a child. But what I didn’t hear her talk about is what she’s going to give to old
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now Those who live or work near the Missouri River will never forget the years of 1993, 2011 and 2019. That’s when the surging river overtopped levees, causing massive flooding that destroyed crops and property and left major highways impassable for months. Those years are memorialized in government data on the Missouri River
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