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It’s Your Call for March 6

By NewsPress Now It was unanimous It seems funny that the person in the call ins thinks that the Supreme Court is trying to keep Trump in the race, and they’re only concerned about helping Trump. That was a unanimous decision, and they go by the Constitution, not by political parties. Do they know? Trump

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It’s Your Call for March 5

By NewsPress Now Why cut them down? Several people were wondering, including myself, while they cut perfectly healthy trees down at Fairview Golf Course. Does somebody need firewood that bad? Tired of it I’m just so tired of the Democrats trying to make out that the Supreme Court is so biased now just because it’s

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TWA: Excuse me mister, that’s our Airplane!

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, robertmford@aol.com. You’re in Kansas City, standing in line to board a TWA flight heading to Chicago with

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It’s Your Call for March 1

By NewsPress Now Russian roulette The Russian informant, Smirnov, admitted Russian intelligence was involved in the false accusation that President Biden was influenced influence peddling in Ukraine. Like Trump’s former attorney General Barr said, these MAGA Republicans are playing Russian roulette. It’s inexcusable Chicago’s Judge Tracie ruled to keep Trump off the primary ballot because

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A case of the blahs

By NewsPress Now As far as Downtown St. Joseph goes, the area around Eighth and Faraon streets could be much worse. A couple of new houses appear forlorn as the wind whistles through the well-tended grass on an otherwise lonely city block. To the north, a roundabout intersection doesn’t exist to control local traffic as

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It’s Your Call for Feb. 26

By NewsPress Now Increase their salary I wonder if teachers would favor the four-day school week if the salaries were increased. Those four-day school weeks mean 35 minutes later every day. If we could increase their salary, it may be the best for students and teachers. Fix up the schools I’m calling in about the

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The world’s greatest inventions

By Cagle Syndicate A couple of days ago, I retrieved one (of about a hundred) of our family doglets’ chew bones from the seemingly unreachable chasm under my youngest and quietest daughter’s bed using an ingenious invention of my own making – namely a straightened-out wire clothes hanger. This same apparatus also comes in handy

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Your letters for Feb. 23 2024

By NewsPress Now Your letters for Feb. 23 2024 Shorter school weeks Why would anyone consider a shorter school week when we are behind most of the developed nations in math and science education? For instance, in Japan, students go to school six days a week and do not have summer vacations. Douglas Stickley Maryville,

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An ‘early spring’ is upon us

By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist On the second day of this month, a famous Pennsylvania Groundhog predicted an early start to the spring season. Despite a few exceptions over the past several weeks, it seems this was right on the money for many across the country, especially here in the Central Plains. Long stretches

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It’s Your Call for Feb. 21

By NewsPress Now Don’t understand it I don’t understand why our country isn’t supporting Ukraine. I’ve heard all the excuses from the Republicans I can possibly stomach. And I’ve been a Republican. But this isn’t what Republicans do. Wake up call Historians have ranked Donald Trump at No. 45, being the worst president out of

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It’s Your Call for Feb. 20

By NewsPress Now Alternative proposal Here’s an alternative proposal for the school district to consider. Given the loss of learning with the so-called virtual learning during the pandemic, coupled with the overall poor performance of students nationally, I support doing away with a five-day school week and replacing it with a six-day week to help

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Who stepped on my blue suede shoes?

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, robertmford@aol.com. I like birthplace museums. If you’ve done something memorable in your life, you get a museum.

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Elvis: Thank you, thank you very much!

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, robertmford@aol.com. They say the greatest compliment given is imitation. Elvis had numerous entertainers paying him that tribute.

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Your letters for Feb. 16, 2024

By NewsPress Now Your letters for Feb. 16, 2024 E.V.—Whoops? Has the push to get EV vehicle into the market overlooked something? Cold weather might be one nightmare, as this causes slow charging and reduced range on these EV’s. A problem that seems to have been overlooked was that the batteries are also the “source”

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El Niño continues to dull Midwest winter

By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Blasts of bitter cold and several hits of accumulating snow made for a wintry January across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas. As the second half of winter rolls on, it’s becoming more evident that last month’s weather was an outlier among a cold season that’s otherwise featured above-average temperatures

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The real crisis in education

By NewsPress Now Four years ago, the University of Missouri’s Institute of Public Policy produced a study that showed families paid an average of $9,880 a year for center-based infant care. To put it in perspective, the cost of child care for newborns exceeded the average annual tuition at a state university. The economic burden

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