Opinion

By NewsPress Now Come together for the holidays In a time of such division in the United States, I hope we can all come together and enjoy the holidays. Merry Christmas to all. Can someone explain? Could someone please explain to us on N 36th St. and Karnes Rd. why the city has been screwing

By NewsPress Now Shouldn’t be allowed I called about an e-bike that was going about 25, I would guess, miles an hour. The guy had a ski mask on, right on this narrow Parkway path. I actually had to go out to the grass because I didn’t want him to hit me. Today, we had

By NewsPress Now Keep them coming The Bob Ford articles are great. Keep them coming. What’s going on? I understand that many employers didn’t want to opt into the Social Security system, but rather went with a pension. Now, all the sudden, they want to give 3 million people Social Security who don’t deserve it

By NewsPress Now Reuse the land we have I just wanted to comment about the 10 acres acquired for future development. When is this city and the world, some cities have recognized the inability of us to keep eating up undeveloped land. We’re going to end up with a world that is not worth living

By NewsPress Now Going without clean drinking water I just want to say that representatives, the Department of Natural Resources and the Governor’s Office, they have all failed Maysville, Missouri, citizens. These people have been without clean drinking water for months and months and months. I have called all these offices. Would be nice to

By NewsPress Now Increase in security St. Joe School District needs to figure out a way immediately to put a safety officer in every school. It will be too late after something like happened yesterday in Wisconsin happens. Lying to the people Concerning the issue of the drone being seen in several states here in

By NewsPress Now Shouldn’t be subsidizing trash Buchanan County taxpayers should not be subsidizing trash coming in from Kansas City, surrounding areas and Kansas. Either raise the fee significantly for out-of-county trash haulers or tell them they can’t dump at the local landfill. On another note, the landfill needs to be a better neighbor to

By NewsPress Now What they should do I should say that they should raise the price at the dump for anybody that doesn’t reside in the Buchanan County area. Those people get the discount price, but anybody outside of St. Joseph should have to pay double. That’s what they should do. One of the solutions

By NewsPress Now How much longer? I was wondering how much longer it take the city to fix 36th St. That thing’s been closed almost a year. Why don’t they hire Herzog? They’ll do it right the first time. The city’s dragging their feet, putting an inconvenience for everybody who needs to get down that

By NewsPress Now Why we can’t have nice things I just heard report on the news about somebody stealing from the Holiday Park Joseph and baby Jesus. This is why St. Joe can’t have anything. I mean, what do we have to do? Put security around every display that makes sure somebody doesn’t steal it?

By NewsPress Now Hate on the government I just realized why people hate the government. I went to a St. Joseph’s City Council meeting and witnessed incompetence on an extreme level. They need to figure it out Concerning the drones that are flying over the state of New Jersey and have been for about three

By NewsPress Now Alarming to see It’s alarming to see how many pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are on the Fortune 500 list. They continue to increase our premiums and reduce the coverage, and they continue to pay high salaries and bonuses to their top executives. Very alarming. Could have been spent somewhere else The

By NewsPress Now Why is the road shut down? I was wondering if anybody knows why they shut that road down that goes off of Faraon St. and Jules over towards East Hills, Dollar Tree and Office Depot. I mean, does anybody know why they shut it down or they going to reopen it or

By NewsPress Now What crimes have they committed? I heard on the news this morning that the White House is considering pardons for people like Cheney, Schiff and Fauci. What? Someone tell me what crimes they’ve committed. If you’re going to pardon, they must have committed a crime. I’d like to know what crimes these

By NewsPress Now Good luck I just got one thing to say to the city. Good luck on getting any more of your tax sales tax, school tax, any type of a tax pass, because people won’t be able to afford it. They got to pay it all to the trash man to get their

By NewsPress Now Filling in from out of state It’s too bad St. Joe has to go out of the city, out of the state to get a new city manager. I’m sure there’s someone here in St. Joe that would take it if they just let him do his job. That we have to