It’s Your Call

Curious about bridge status I’d like to know what the status is on the Gene Field Bridge. If we’re going to replace it, let’s get started and tear it down. Let’s do something. It’s wait, wait, wait, and it’s time to get something started. It’s an inconvenience for the entire city for that bridge to

Government by the government for the government President Reagan said it best when he states government is not the solution, it is the problem. Presently, the state of Missouri passed a law which offers a discount to senior citizens on their property tax. It allows the county to freeze the tax base. However, the value

Pack it up already I wish Chuck Schumer would take his ill-gotten gains and get out of politics. I’ll cut them down myself I read in It’s Your Call the other day about a caller complaining about utility poles not being pulled out of the ground after being replaced with new ones. I agree. In

He’s doing it You guys remember when Harris and Trump was running against each other? You remember what Harris kept telling America? If you guys put this person in office, he’s going to destroy America. And he’s doing it.  Selling out our country It’s costing about $20 to 30 million a day to keep that

Only reason he’s disappointed Trump is disappointed that President Zelenskyy won’t give Russia everything that it wants to end the war so Trump can claim that he stopped another war.  Suburban sprawl is horrible I was sad to read about the suburban sprawl that St. Joseph is planning but not surprised. I think it would

What happened to quality control? I have an issue with the telephone company and the TV services that are mounted on poles in Saint Joseph. I live at a property where they put new electric utility poles in and the phone company and cable vision is still attached to the old pole, they said they

Only in the government The front page in Tuesday’s paper said revenues for the school district are declining. Certainly, revenues from the government are declining as they are tied to the number of students, but overall spending has increased dramatically. Only in government speak can you say I wanted a 20% increase, but only got

The harsh reality I hope the people in St. Joseph that are so desperately clinging on to the idea of the continuation of three high schools in the area saw the front page of Tuesday’s paper. Revenues are declining and the population of St. Joseph is declining. The school board cannot afford to keep three

Makes no sense You know, President Trump tells Maduro to get out of his own country and Venezuela. Tells him just to get out, threatens him, or he’s going to blow him up. But he won’t tell Putin to get out of Ukraine. It’s not his country. But he tells Maduro to get out of

Light up the statue Everybody’s talking about how much money the city spends. How come they haven’t spent no money putting floodlights on the Pony Express horse? You’d think they’d be all proud of St. Joe. Then put some lights on so people can see it.  Didn’t give a hoot Well, I see now some

War crime I just watched the news, and they shot another alleged drug boat. There were survivors, so they attacked the boat a second time to kill the survivors. This is a war crime.   This is what happens The founding fathers wanted three equal branches of government. And we’re seeing right now what happens

Hates the truth Trump hates the truth so much that he’s willing to send the FBI to intimidate the six people who all they did was state the facts.  The exact same songs Has anybody ever listened to radio stations in this town? How they play the exact same music? They just switch the tracks

No common sense Who in their right mind tells the U.S. troops they can disobey orders? Do they not have any common sense? We do not need this kind of a breakdown in our troops today.  He’s an authoritarian When you get into the military, the first thing you do is swear allegiance to the

Take the loss Could someone please explain to me, after a fair and balanced election, why the Democrats are still preaching hate and why they still cannot accept the result that Donald Trump is our president today? Years ago, I thought the first woman of the White House, Michelle Obama, said, “When they go low,

He’s completely spineless Trump is spineless. At the very least, he should be demanding that Russia return the children that they’ve kidnapped, and Russia should pay damages that they have inflicted after invading Ukraine. Putin won’t stop Putin will not stop with what he’s talked to Trump into giving him. Everything that they’re demanding from

What’s that saying? Trump said to a woman reporter, “Quiet, piggy.” I thought that was crass and disrespectful. His press secretary, who is a woman, said he was being open and frank. What is they say? You can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.  What’s the point of taxes? My question is, if

Make up your minds This is on the St. Joseph School District. My opinion is they are a bunch of unprofessionals who cannot make executive decisions. Our school district has been a mess now for I don’t know how many years. It was a mess when I was a kid going to school here, but it’s

Win-win solution A win-win solution to our school situation might be for the South End to withdraw from the city and form its own school board and keep Benton High School. The rest of the city could then build a modern, state-of-the-art high school that would be attractive to young families who are considering locating

Veer off the usual pattern This is about the consideration of putting in new housing on 36th Street. I would just encourage the city to consider veering a little from their usual pattern of flash and burn and leaving the old parts of the city to fend for themselves. There are so many areas, particularly

Can’t decide on what they want This is about the school board thing. What happened? I thought they were going to have all three high schools, and next thing you know, they decided they didn’t like that idea. They can’t decide what they want to do now. Is it time to get rid of the

Watching closely I’ll be watching closely to see how Sam Graves votes this week to release all of the Epstein files.   Empty promises I’m calling in reference to the comment “It’s time to make changes.” Sir or ma’am, I do have the same car I had 15 years ago. I have the same auto

A plan from outer space I read in the paper where the St. Joe School District has like a plan one, a plan two, plan seven, and a plan E. What makes me think we’re going to end up with something like plan nine from Mars or outer space?  Shame on the SJSD Shame on the

Leave it alone I was calling about our illustrious school board. What happened to Plan E? They want to go back to review about the two high schools. This thing was voted down twice by the St. Joe people here, and they’re still going to try to get two high schools. Leave it alone, school

Limit the food The St. Joseph School District could save a lot of money if they would monitor how much food is wasted in these schools. People are in need of food, and all this food gets wasted by kids taking more than necessary than throwing it away. There should be a limit on how

This is what happens Everybody talks about the direction this country’s going. Well, this is what happens when you put a bunch of adolescent, immature children in office. They pout, they argue, they’re right, everybody’s wrong, instead of focusing on what needs to be done. There’s a lot of people lost their benefits, man. A

Special privilege I was just calling about these e-bikes and the regular bicycles. I was downtown having lunch last weekend. I noticed a lot of them. They just go right through the stop signs. They don’t stop. I guess they got a privilege; they don’t have to stop. Traffic’s there and they just seem to

Do something before there’s an accident I’m calling about the extreme danger that e-bikes pose, especially to pedestrians. Many, many people have been killed in Europe and in the United States who are walking or riding traditional bikes and were hit by e-bikes. And, of course, they’re a danger to the people who are riding

Get rid of the board I’m calling about the school system wanting to cut back on custodians and teachers. What about getting rid of the school board? All they’re doing is spending money for useless things.  Shame on the Democrats The big, beautiful bill passed, and the Democrats didn’t like it. Now they’re holding the

They won’t negotiate It really gets me all these people calling in and saying it’s the Democrats’ fault the government shut down. The Republicans hold the White House and Congress. They’re in charge of that. They won’t talk. They aren’t even in Washington. They haven’t been there for a month. How are they going to

How to tighten the budget For the St. Joe School District to tighten its budget, they need to fire half of the administration. They’re not doing their job anyway. Would like to know So, the school district is cutting $2.7 million. Is that taking away from the children, or is that knocking out a couple