By NewsPress Now Your letters for May 10, 2024 Gaming the election Biden — will his continual mental and physical decline, which is accelerating exponentially? His work week is now more off than on. He seems to speak a language that is mostly indecipherable. Steps pose an existential threat, given that the president is one
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By Alonzo Weston There was a time when having a speech impediment was considered a mental illness. If that was so, I’ve been mentally ill most of my life because I stutter. My stutter began sometime in the fifth grade. I never knew what triggered it but I had just finished third and fourth grade
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist After years of widespread drought and low water levels across large swaths of the Missouri River basin, the longest waterway in the U.S. is once again flowing in abundance. This is especially true for the lower Missouri River Basin, where recent rains have pushed some water to flood stage.
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By NewsPress Now Strange use of the money This is the last season for Krug Park Pool because we don’t have enough money to repair it or keep a swimming pool open for the kids. However, we have $7 million to give to a private organization, the YMCA, to build their swimming pool. But we
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By NewsPress Now The real news You have to watch MSNBC and CNN to get the truth about Donald Trump. FOX and Newsmax just cherry pick the items, and they cover for Trump. Working long and hard I have watched the slow degradation of this nation since the days of Vietnam. These professors have been
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By NewsPress Now What’s wrong with America? What is wrong with this country? What’s going on in New York is literally ridiculous. Don’t we have the First Amendment to our Constitution anymore? They have just walked all over it, stomped on it and tried to bury it into the ground. I’m sick of what’s going
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By NewsPress Now Kudos to Alonzo Kudos to Alonzo Weston for his article on mental illness in the Weekender. It definitely helps us be aware of what many go through, and that mental health is not a determinant of someone’s value. Thank you for the article. How will it survive? How can our democracy survive
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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 NewsPress Now It starts at home I believe in free speech. I believe in the right to protest. But I don’t believe anyone has a right to commit violence. But sadly, even though they got the Columbia incident stopped, the parents of those little anarchists will sue the NYPD because this starts at home.
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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 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 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 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
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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
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 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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