By Elwood Watson Cagle Syndicate Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself, who were born between 1965 and 1980. We were a generation that has been perennially pegged as cynical, self-indulgent, aimless, contrarian, and often peripheral when it comes
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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, Mastio and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join them in supporting, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. For “empire building” countries, the name of the game in the 1700s and early 1800s was exploration and
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By NewsPress Now Arbitrary decision Who benefits? Since the school district is considering arbitrarily lowering the school week from five days to four days, can we, as taxpayers, lower our real estate school tax arbitrarily by 20% also? How can that be? I see there’s several more truckloads of litter around the Boulevard. How can
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By NewsPress Now Heading into this year’s legislative session, it might be worth examining one of the Missouri General Assembly’s accomplishments in 2023. A law prohibiting texting while driving took effect on Aug. 28. This measure replaced the previous law that was limited to drivers under the age of 21, a piece of legislative nonsense
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist The 2023-24 cold season has been a stale one for winter lovers across the Midwest. Aside from a few brief spells of polar air, temperatures here in the Central Plains generally trended above average through the final three months of last year, while precipitation remained below average. Given the
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By Alonzo Weston We’re fresh into a new year now and some are looking back, tallying up what we’ve lost and what we’ve gained so far. Last year was my first holiday season without my mother. It still hurts. I lost a mother but gained a new granddaughter. God gives back. We as a community
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By NewsPress Now They don’t know anything I never thought I’d find somebody more ignorant than Donald Trump is about the U.S. Constitution and the legal system until I read about his lawyers. They don’t know anything about the Constitution or the legal system. Just get along I love the Chiefs. I’ve been a fan
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By NewsPress Now No right to run Nikki Haley has no right to run for president. She’s always been a big part of the military industrial complex, right along with Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney and the rest of them. Not a bad economy I am glad the Wall Street Journal pointed out to several
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By NewsPress Now Do we need it? Do we really need another publicity-seeking individual on St. Joseph’s School Board? Aggressive dogs Why do people bring aggressive dogs to the dog park? My 15-year-old beagle was just attacked by two big, aggressive dogs. The owner had no control over his dogs. She made it without a
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