It’s Your Call

A depressing drive Stay off of Southwest Parkway. Dumped tires, bags of trash, litter everywhere. It’s a very depressing drive anymore. It used to be beautiful. Now it’s just the new landfill. Please get this street done I was just wondering, does anybody know what they’re doing on that S. 36th St. It’s been a

Bridges What’s wrong with this picture? It takes longer to fix the 6th St. viaduct in St. Joseph than it does to rebuild the Broadway Bridge in Kansas City. Not all taxes The senior real estate tax relief program does not freeze all real estate taxes. Assessed value of your home every two years and

A lack of responsible adults Jodi Flurry from United Way states, “The low supply of housing stock is a real challenge because there’s even people who have a housing voucher through the public Housing Authority, but they can’t find a rental unit, so they stay homeless.” St. Joseph doesn’t have a lack of housing —

Goodbye to two very different presidents As we say goodbye to 2024, we say goodbye to two presidents. No. 1, Jimmy Carter, who was brave enough to walk into Three Mile Island, which a lot of people don’t even remember. And No. 2, probably the worst president we ever saw who campaigning, wouldn’t get out

Absolutely gorgeous at night If you haven’t been up to Krug Park and seen the lights this year, they are absolutely beautiful. The city has a real gem in the castle. I sure hope they don’t let it go to pot, and they do something with it. Really, it is absolutely gorgeous up here at

Think about it Well, I see they’re going to put sidewalks down in the South End for kids to walk home from school. That is great. But here’s a newsflash to our so-called competent city leaders. How about sidewalks by Pickett School before another child gets killed there? Think about it, council, mayor. A tragic

Died happily I am so happy that President Jimmy Carter was able to die with a smile on his face, knowing that finally he will not go down in history as the worst American president. I’m sure he died happy. I can’t pay that I wanted to comment on the Evergy new rate plans. We’ve

Please be kind Today’s newspaper has a comment about Jimmy Carter dying with a smile on his face, knowing he won’t go down as the worst American president, other times we read slams that don’t make sense with no intellectual basis, just to sling mud. Please, could we be civil and show kindness and intelligence?

Fact checking To that person who said Fox News said Biden was going to stop gas water heaters. If they had done a little fact checking that was misrepresented. That’s not true. There are certain types of coils that won’t be used, and they’re mostly in effect already. So it’s no big deal. Just don’t

Thank you I just wanted to say that I really appreciate all those people that really make an effort at cleaning their sidewalks off for those who use the sidewalks. Something is wrong here Trump is talking about using the military to take Greenland. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture? Market on

Snow stops everything I’m in my 60s and I don’t ever remember a snowstorm where we got at least 15-16 inches where it stopped the mail. It stopped the trash pick-up. The snowplows are behind. I don’t ever remember a storm in my 60 years that ever had its effect on the city of Saint

Fixed game I just got through watching the Denver/Buffalo game and it’s not quite over yet, but everybody’s coming over and shaking the Buffalo’s head coach’s hand and what have you and a ref comes over and shakes his hand. That sounds a little suspicious to me. I have thought these games were fixed for

Shame they can’t keep it up The city’s done a pretty good job with the snow removal, but down in the South End, off King Hill, is a street called Cherokee, and it runs right along the InterServ and then right on past the VFW down the street. It hasn’t been bladed or cleaned or

Get someone who knows what to do Yes, I’m calling about the S 36th St. that the city has been over a year trying to fix. Had to take it apart and fix it again. Why don’t they call Herzog, they know what to do. It won’t take over a year. The city can’t get

Thank you, East Hills I want to thank East Hills Mall for again decorating in the real festive spirit. Unique shopping, joyous, and your efforts are the reason you are the only shopping center I visit. Hire them for extra help About the snow removal. If the city is short of help, and they can’t

Is this California or Missouri? Now I recently found out that St. Joe Transit got their idea to do our bus system, which is failing, from California. Evergy came up with this brand-new plan they got and everything from where? California. My question is, is this California? Something needs to be done When is the

Them, not us Hey, City Council, rather than restrict our local trash haulers, why not restrict the people from out of Buchanan County, from away from St. Joe? Restrict them, not us. Another mess It doesn’t do the city any good to come down and plow the streets if you’re going to shovel your snow

Corby Pond upgrades I see over Corby Pond’s gonna get a big fancy pavilion, new sidewalks, new bathrooms. That’s all great for the rich people in the North End, but the South End people, what did we get? A splash park out in the middle of the parking lot. Wow. Thank you, gentlemen I’d like

Interesting I hope everyone noted that Trump did not put his hand on a Bible when taking the oath of office. Interesting. His fear Donald Trump failed to put his hand on the Bible at his swearing in. He was afraid he would burst into flames. He don’t care What does Trump and a Republican

Pot calling the kettle black So, our new president wants to go after criminals. He wants to go after illegal immigrants. He wants to go after anybody who’s breaking the law, including government officials who fail to report such things. Well, isn’t that kind of like the kettle calling the pot black? It’s disgusting As

No consequences In response to “It’s disgusting” in the Its Your Call column, what’s disgusting is Michael Byrd faced no consequences for killing Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed woman and veteran of the military. Doesn’t believe in Jesus’ teachings Trump’s demand that Bishop Budde and the Episcopal Church apologize to him for asking him to “have

St. Joe needs one I would like for them to put a Safe Haven Baby Box out on Frederick at the Buchanan County EMS. I am sure this town can raise enough money to do it. We sure need one. Respect, not pay You know, it’s easy to tell somebody what to do or how

Don’t understand it I saw the Ping Poll on Saturday that there’s a lot of people that don’t want to tear this double-decker bridge down, 30% that want the bridge tore down compared to 70% that don’t. And you had a wonderful picture in your paper last week showing exactly the intent of the people

Take the trash elsewhere This is regarding the landfill situation. It’s obvious that the city has bungled their preparation or operations for years now to bring us to the point that we really might have to close our landfill. That’s what happens when you continue to vote in the same kinds of people who do

Proof is in the pudding Now everybody thinks, you know, it’s so great to live here in St. Joe. All you got to do is come here and live for six months. The proof is in the pudding. Look to the future As a 78-year-old lifelong resident of St. Joe, I feel we need a

Would like to know I want to know when they’re going to get done at South 36th St. They’ve tore up my yard. They’re not doing anything at this time. They’ve had to tear it all down and build it again. Can the city get somebody there that knows what they’re doing to get this

It’s shameful Right on 8th and Mitchell is an abandoned building with a U.S. flag hanging on a pole on top. The U.S. flag is in horrible shape. Somebody needs to move in and take care of it. Shameful to see our U.S. flag in such condition. Encourage recycling Most schools have got a paper

It’s a pain, just saying I was just wondering if and when the King Hill Ave. bridge will be completed. I’ve called the city. They referred me to the section of the city that does the construction on that project and I was told once that it would been done in mid-December. However, if you

Tired of being used Now I just want to set one thing straight. It’s not that people don’t want to work, because I do. I’m just not going out here and dealing with the obnoxious drama that you have to put up with in these factories and these companies to keep a job. People bring

License to steal I seen in the paper they’re, again, talking about Internet for the rural areas and for people that can’t get the Internet. Well, I live in the rural area and when it hit our area, it was sky high. All these laws are for these providers is a license to steal from