By Dean Johnson Quality Schools Coalition Special to In his final year in office, Governor Mike Parson has proposed significant investments in Missouri’s families, teachers, and students. Senate Bill 727, a bipartisan education package, now awaits Parson’s signature, promising higher teacher salaries and increased pre-K enrollment in public schools. Missouri has long neglected these areas,
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles and Podcasts are complementary from those helping to preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Eagle Communication, Rupp Funeral Home, Stevenson Family Pharmacy and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join them as sponsors, email robertmford@aol.com. The Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing was the first massive clash of the Civil War. On
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By NewsPress Now A sudden power outage gave nearly 30,000 St. Joseph-area electric customers plenty to contemplate one day last month. Businesses and individuals with critical power needs were left wondering how long it would take to restore service. Conspiracy theorists speculated on the possibility of a cyberattack, a scenario that isn’t far-fetched based on
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist The first half of April was relatively quiet when it came to severe weather across the mid-Missouri River Valley. The first two weeks of the month featured no reports of damaging winds or tornadoes, and only one isolated report of sizable hail throughout all of Northwest Missouri. The second
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for May 3, 2024 Not our war Historically, the British, French and Germans have been fighting each other for centuries. They came to America, and we all got along together. In Ireland, the Catholics and Protestants have been killing each other, dividing along religious lines. That entrenched hatred disappeared like
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By Alonzo Weston May is the month for things to bloom, including our awareness of mental health. May has been recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month since 1949. It aims to address the challenges faced by millions of Americans living with mental health issues. It’s also important to address the stigma associated with mental illness.
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By NewsPress Now Unethical behavior Unethical behavior has won again in the Missouri Legislature. Dean Plocher, Speaker of the House, was accused of using his political influence to block an ethics investigation into his misuse of state tax money and using the office to help his employer win a high dollar contract from the state
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By NewsPress Now What they don’t realize I see a lot of these college campuses are protesting the financing of the Israel and Gaza war. Well, what they haven’t realized — we financed every war for the past 20 years in some way or another. Also, there was a big stink about these immigrants coming
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By NewsPress Now Spend some money here I’m over here at Wyeth lookout park and the fascia boards are really rough. The roof is slowly losing its tiles. I believe I read something where the city was going to spend some money on parks. So, I’m hoping this is on it because they already spent
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By NewsPress Now Platte County Chiefs I am all for the Kansas City Chiefs getting a new football stadium. I say move it to Platte County and call them the Platte County Chiefs. There’s plenty of land in Platte County. It’s in the center of everywhere so there would be plenty of parking, and it
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By NewsPress Now Platte County Chiefs I am all for the Kansas City Chiefs getting a new football stadium. I say move it to Platte County and call them the Platte County Chiefs. There’s plenty of land in Platte County. It’s in the center of everywhere so there would be plenty of parking, and it
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By Danny Tyree Cagle Syndicate The venerable comic strip “Gasoline Alley” is wrapping up a storyline in which the dastardly assistant mayor schemed to change the town’s name from Gasoline Alley to the ostensibly more modern Electric Acres (without even offering a compromise such as Hybrid Hollow). Sentimentality saved the day in the funnies, just
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles and Podcasts are complementary from those helping to preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Eagle Communication, Rupp Funeral Home, Stevenson Family Pharmacy and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join them as sponsors, email robertmford@aol.com. My father and I butted heads throughout my youth, but once he finally matured a
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By NewsPress Now Since when? Since when has it been illegal for politicians to pay people to keep things quiet? They all do it. Good actors, but not politicians I’d just like to say to Michael Douglas and Mark Hamill, I used to like guys as actors. But you are not good politicians. When you
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now The deadline for filing income taxes came and went this month with hardly a visible wisp of activity at the U.S. post office in Downtown St. Joseph. Not so long ago, vehicles lined the streets outside the building as procrastinators dropped off income tax returns before the midnight deadline. The big change
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 26, 2024 Public education Once again, public education is showing off its finest product. All across our great country, pro-Hamas demonstrators are closing down universities and chanting “Death to America.” How entitled do these idiots really think they are? Death to the very taxpayers they believe should pay
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Sporadic rainfall deficits have spurred ongoing periods of drought across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas for the past several years. According to the U.S. drought monitor, most of the Show Me state north of the Missouri River was under abnormally dry to moderate drought conditions to start the year.
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By Alonzo Weston In the span of a month, I lost a cousin and a childhood friend. My friend John died a month ago after a long battle with cancer. They found my cousin Curtis McGaughy dead in his apartment a week ago. It seems that when you reach a certain age you get to
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By NewsPress Now Glad to see it I am glad to see Senator McConnell and some other Republican leadership stand up to Trump and Putin’s favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene. Absolutely the opposite I was just looking at a couple of old notes, and the News-Press said, four years ago, we had the lowest inflation and
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By NewsPress Now Suggestions for using the money I heard on the news that the city council and the city manager will be considering how to spend COVID money over the next year. I would suggest very strongly that some of that money be spent to actually relieve the burden of the citizens of St.
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By NewsPress Now I’m proud of him I’m not a Speaker Johnson fan, but I’m sure proud of him standing up for his country, our country. It took a lot of courage. But he is the speaker of the house. A Speaker of the House not only represents his party, but all of America. And,
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By NewsPress Now Just so you know I was a little shocked to see, going through the tunnels up at Krug Park, that the cars behind me were obviously not making any wishes and honking twice like you’re supposed to like we did. But nobody else did. Just so everybody knows, that’s what you’re supposed
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By NewsPress Now So goes our state politics The immediate past president of the United States stands trial on felony charges. Meanwhile, Missouri’s two senators support his bid to be our next president. Meanwhile, the Missouri Speaker of the House uses the power of his office to head off investigation into his alleged misconduct. So
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles and Podcasts are complementary from those helping to preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Eagle Communication, Rupp Funeral Home, Stevenson Family Pharmacy and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join them as sponsors, email robertmford@aol.com. Callaway is a county in Mid-Missouri that has a history like no other … it’s
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 19, 2024 Celebrating laboratory professionals The week of April 15th is celebrated as national laboratory professionals week. Working in clinical and research labs throughout the world, these individuals perform tests on blood and tissue to help medical professionals treat patients. Over 75% of treatment decisions are made based
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By Alonzo Weston I had coffee with a couple of retired newspaper friends the other day at Hazel’s Downtown. After we got caught up on what our former News-Press colleagues were up to now, our conversation turned to our fair city. St. Joseph still has its charm as well as its problems but we found
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By NewsPress Now What’s going on now? I’m wondering why I’m getting phone calls from out of town from people I know kind of laughing about the school board issue and some gal going around throwing the F bomb at everybody. Just what’s going on with the St. Joe School Board now? Just wow Heard
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By NewsPress Now Step away from the TV How about you left wingers get off CNN and MSNBC and see what’s really going on in this country? Oh my goodness, you’ve got to get away from those TV stations. Arrest them All of these pro-Palestinian demonstrations that they’re having, they should arrest anyone that is
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By NewsPress Now Totally unacceptable Why are the bathrooms at Bartlett Park not working? I took my grandson over there and there were about 40 kids there playing and there was nowhere for nobody to go to bathroom. For the money we pay in parks tax, this is totally unacceptable and I’m tired of it.
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By NewsPress Now They have the same leadership style When Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, he met with Viktor Orban, the pro-Putin, anti-Democratic leader of Hungary, at Mar-a-Lago. Trump and Orban made it public that they both have the same style of leadership. After many scandals, it looks like after 10 years of autocratic
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