Opinion

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

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

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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.

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

By NewsPress Now Don’t ignore the old parts of town This is about the new pool proposal at the new Y. I would just suggest that if the city or anybody is going to spend any more of taxpayer money, please put it in the old parts of St. Joe. It was wonderful. We had

By NewsPress Now What gives you the right? Joe, you and the far-left Democrats, the biggest laughingstock in the world that there is, what gives you the right to talk about other people interfering in our elections when you’re trying to interfere in Israel and what’s going on in that nation? Just one question With

By NewsPress Now There are two choices We have two choices in this election. Biden, who works for the American people, or Trump, who only cares about himself and wants everyone else to pay his legal fees. Trump has indictments and felony charges against him. He paid a woman millions of dollars for sexual assault.

By NewsPress Now Avoiding more chaos This is in response to “Two Choices.” I totally agree with the caller and that’s why I will be casting my vote for Donald J. Trump to avoid four more years of utter chaos and destruction of America. Acting pretty bizarre I get it that the solar eclipse is

By NewsPress Now Thank you, Parks and Rec Just like to give a shout out to the Parks and Recreation department for cleaning up King Hill. My wife and I were up there. The view is fantastic. Now all we need to do is redo that road up on the hill. Curb appeal is important

By NewsPress Now Grateful but sad We can be grateful I suppose that 22.5% of registered voters took part in Tuesday’s election, but the sad thing is 77.5% of voters cared so little about local government that they simply stayed at home. Denied the opportunity Four more states are allowed to vote in a primary