Opinion

By NewsPress Now Why isn’t it happening here? Are Buchanan County seniors ever going to get a break on property taxes? It’s happening everywhere else. Why not here? Looking for a solution We didn’t know what to do. Today, like many days, between 9:18 and 10:20, we received 23 calls from all different areas that

By NewsPress Now When will this stop? I just opened my energy bill and there was the notice in there that they are asking again for another rate hike. They said it could be up to $17 and some odd cents per month, almost $18 more per month. When will this stop? People on fixed

By NewsPress Now That’s just life This is a comment on the It’s Your Call column in Monday’s paper, “It could be worse.” Interest rates on mortgages, yes, back in 1981, when Jimmy Carter was president, the market interest rate on mortgages was over 18% because I had one. Couldn’t get any one close to

By NewsPress Now Be considerate I live in North End around the park area and people in the neighborhood celebrate the 4th before and well past the curfew hour of 10 p.m. Some of us have to work and I really would like to get some sleep. Please be considerate. Why raise the rates? If

By NewsPress Now Might get something good out of it That sports center they’re wanting to build, why not just knock down East Hills because you can’t go out there and shop anyway? So, you might as well tear it down and put a sports center there. May get some good out of it. Can’t

By NewsPress Now We were better off then I was disgusted watching the debates, so I simply switched channels to watch the Royals baseball game. Now Optimum has seen fit to eliminate that channel from our choices so we can no longer watch the Royals games. I think we were better off in the ‘60s

By NewsPress Now Where’s the ball game? The Royals and the Cardinals are not on TV no more in St. Joe. That’s very, very sad. I hope and pray the Royals and the Cardinals get on a channel somewhere in Saint Joe. About to lose it The socialist communists that are trying to destroy this

By NewsPress Now A true delight Thank you, thank you, thank you to the five sponsors of Bob Ford’s History. It is the highlight of my weekend to read Bob Ford’s article on Saturday morning. What a delight. I hope it continues. What’s next? Well, I see now where the Republicans want to do away

By NewsPress Now Not doing their jobs I feel that the Supreme Court, to some degree, is not doing their job, and the fact that they don’t want to release any decisions on cases before the court because it may tend to affect the debate, I disagree with that because the people need to know

By NewsPress Now Anyone else notice this? Has anyone else noticed the spontaneous appearance of speed bumps on some of our asphalt streets? Does the Police Department have a new tool to control speed or are our asphalt streets buckling from the heat? He should call Putin up If Trump is such good friends with

By NewsPress Now Backyard burglars Well, summer is officially here. The dandelions are growing in the yard and the backyard burglars are out picking up stuff. Keep an eye on your alleyway, people. Not everybody wants to be stolen from. Quality of life is No. 1 This is regarding the paper’s editorial essentially saying that

By NewsPress Now Just a question I have a question. If inflation is up, everybody says it’s a different percentage, 19%, let’s say, therefore the sales tax is going up a certain amount. That sales tax money goes to the state, the city. What are they spending it on? Who’s controlling it and what are

By NewsPress Now They’re losing money CNN’s Van Jones is shouting to the rooftop that anyone with a cognitive brain needs to watch the debate. Well, the reason is CNN is hemorrhaging money. Does it remind you of anyone? Anyone who watched the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” doesn’t that remind you of

By NewsPress Now The new Trump world Unfortunately, Trump’s core base of voters rule this land. Paul Ryan’s ex Majority Leader said Trump is unfit for office. So Trump told his followers not to watch FOX News. Ryan is a board of director at FOX. If Republican leaders oppose Trump, he calls them a RINO.