Opinion

By NewsPress Now Shout out to the street crew I just want to give a shout out to the street maintenance crew. I’ve had an alley culvert, two, that’s been clogged up for a long time, and rain, super bad rains and rivers on the side of the house there clogged it up pretty good.

By NewsPress Now Don’t have all the facts I love it when people don’t have all the facts. President Trump agreed to debate President Biden on ABC, not Kamala Harris. He also has a lawsuit against George Stephanopoulos and ABC and does not want to be on their network. He has offered to debate her

By NewsPress Now Broken pools I see where the Parks Department is going to shut down the Aquatic Center because they can’t seem to get it fixed right. They spend all this money on the engineers, and nobody knows what to do with it. So now they’re going to tear it out and put a

By NewsPress Now Don’t complain If you didn’t get out and vote and you don’t like the results, don’t complain. Next time, vote. Total chaos I just went to vote in the Missouri primary and there was a gentleman voting that had a Trump button on and the election worker asked him to remove it.

By NewsPress Now He doesn’t have my vote I see that Andrew Bailey tried to intervene in the Supreme Court gag order on Trump. I wouldn’t vote for that guy if he was the only guy running. What about Sugar Lake? Well, I was just wondering, there’s all this talk about Lake Contrary dredging and

By NewsPress Now Give it up Well, I just don’t know what I’m missing on this Lake Contrary revitalization effort and all the time and resources and money some people want to spend on it. Is anyone answering the question, is this going to be great for the future of St. Joe? Is this going

By NewsPress Now Reduce the bills instead If ARPA funds can be used for sewer infrastructure, why not use it to reduce our sky high sewer bills? Has to stop I’m right in line with everyone else calling in about Evergy wanting a rate increase. That is so, so terrible for the folks of St.

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

By NewsPress Now Raising the rates I was wondering, Evergy wants to raise the energy bills over 13%. St. Joe, what about the people that’s on a fixed income? And then Evergy is telling us when we can and cannot use energy between 4 and 8 at night. Now they want to hike the price

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

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

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

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

By NewsPress Now Clean up the town Why is St. Joe wasting their money on Krug Park? That’s a dying dog. They need to get around and pick up some of the trash in this town. Where are you going? This is on this new bus system. Has anybody been Downtown to catch the city