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By NewsPress Now Your letters for May 10, 2024 Gaming the election Biden — will his continual mental and physical decline, which is accelerating exponentially? His work week is now more off than on. He seems to speak a language that is mostly indecipherable. Steps pose an existential threat, given that the president is one

By NewsPress Now Your letters for May 3, 2024 Not our war Historically, the British, French and Germans have been fighting each other for centuries. They came to America, and we all got along together. In Ireland, the Catholics and Protestants have been killing each other, dividing along religious lines. That entrenched hatred disappeared like

By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 26, 2024 Public education Once again, public education is showing off its finest product. All across our great country, pro-Hamas demonstrators are closing down universities and chanting “Death to America.” How entitled do these idiots really think they are? Death to the very taxpayers they believe should pay

By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 19, 2024 Celebrating laboratory professionals The week of April 15th is celebrated as national laboratory professionals week. Working in clinical and research labs throughout the world, these individuals perform tests on blood and tissue to help medical professionals treat patients. Over 75% of treatment decisions are made based

By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 12, 2024 Harrison County Community Hospital I was born in Ridgeway, and other than a 10 or so year period when my parents rented a farm in Albany, Missouri, I have lived in Harrison County all of my life. In 1989, the residents of Harrison County were asked

By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 5, 2024 Trump is sole owner of his troubles John Schroeder’s lengthy rant is nothing but a Donald Trump “I’m being picked on” cry. Trump has no respect for our form of government, our country, or the people that serve it. He brags about sexually touching women and

By NewsPress Now Lanning urges passage of $20 million bond St. Joseph, This $20 million bond brings stable and consistent heating and cooling to our students. This bond improves safety for our students. This bond gets Hosea students out of trailers and into actual classrooms. This bond improves athletic facilities, improves fine arts facilities, and

By NewsPress Now Letter from David Foster Being a School Board Member is a Privilege that Whitney Lanning Has Lost By: David P. Foster It has been an honor to serve on the St. Joseph School Board for the last three years. This responsibility holds significant weight as it directly impacts our community’s most precious

By NewsPress Now Letter from Kim Miller Whitney Lanning Should Resign from our School Board By: Kim Miller The recent harassment charge against Whitney Lanning is disturbing to me, and what’s more disturbing is that this is a pattern of volatile behavior, condoned by our board president, aimed toward those who hold opposing opinions. Her

By NewsPress Now St. Joseph, This $20 million bond brings stable and consistent heating and cooling to our students. This bond improves safety for our students. This bond gets Hosea students out of trailers and into actual classrooms. This bond improves athletic facilities, improves fine arts facilities, and provides access to the latest science technology…

By NewsPress Now Your letters for March 22, 2024 Unreliable mail service What is happening to our mail service? On Feb. 12, I mailed three valentines to St. Joseph addresses. Two of the valentines contained three small gifts and one valentine contained one small gift. The envelope with the one gift was finally received two

By NewsPress Now Your letters for March 15, 2024 Time for the adults to step forward The primary obligation of government is to provide for the protection of its citizens. Failure to do so constitutes dereliction of duty. Millions of illegals have crossed our southern border in the past three years. Many come from nations

By NewsPress Now No need for new buildings Why is this school board and superintendent, Dr. Gabe Edgar, so determined to waste our tax money? Our three public high school buildings are in excellent condition! There have been great improvements to our facilities in recent years. Most, if not all, are newer than the more

By NewsPress Now Your letters for March 1, 2024 Beat them at their own game Buckle up, buttercup, and hang on: In the 60’s, I understand that the cell phones back then had enough power to send the lunar spacecraft to the moon. I must admit that is way over my understanding! Have you noticed

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,

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”

By NewsPress Now Your letters for Feb. 9, 2024 All-hands-on-deck I don’t know if you heard about another free item that Biden has proposed. If not, here’s a quick overview of his latest all-hands-on-deck! President Biden announces new actions to strengthen America’s supply chains, lower costs for families, and secure key sectors — a White

By NewsPress Now Your letters for Feb. 2, 2024 Whom to vote for? With “our” border czar never having been to the actual borders (crossings sites) where millions have been crossing the in the last 3 years unvetted (est. 8 million), and a climate czar flying all over the world in his “private” jet letting

By NewsPress Now Your letters for Jan. 26, 2024 Why not show the world? I have a question. Considering the court case against Mr. Trump in Georgia is televised, why wouldn’t he want to go live and show the world how the 2020 election was stolen? Why doesn’t he want to go to trial? Roger