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By NewsPress Now Before challenging a book I think two things should happen before you can challenge a book. I think one you should have read the book and be able to write a book report on it. At least 10 full pages. Number two, I think you should know how to spell the word

By NewsPress Now {div class=”OutlineElement Ltr SCXW174565791 BCX0”} When will they learn Another crazy motorcyclist killed on the Belt highway. When are the police going to stop these idiots from running like nuts instead of just saying, ‘oh well, I can’t catch them, so we’ll just let them go.’ And then we all get upset

By NewsPress Now Extra burden Reporting each child’s books that have been checked out at the library is an extra burden on the teachers and schools. The parent requesting it should go to the school during library time and assist their child in the selection process or send them to a private school where they

By NewsPress Now What really needs to be addressed Books. Really? The St. Joseph School District is worrying about which books to ban. What they really need to concern themselves is with good teachers being verbally and physically abused in the classroom and nothing being done about it. That’s what needs to be addressed. Who

By NewsPress Now They supported Republicans The Missouri Chamber of Commerce has criticized the recent do-nothing Missouri legislature. The Missouri Chamber of Commerce has supported Republicans for years, especially the more right they were. SCOTUS already said no The Supreme Court, the highest court in the land of the United States of America, has already

By NewsPress Now How long will it take? Myself, along with many, many other motorcycle riders, are still curious as to how long the police are going to take to investigate the fatal accident on the 17th of last month. Editor’s note: The News-Press reported on May 20 that police are awaiting results from the

By NewsPress Now Who would want that? The Republicans are trying to destroy everything this country stands for and are using Donald Trump to do it. Why else would they be trying so hard to get Trump elected president? Who in their right mind would want a convicted felon to run this country with all

By NewsPress Now Why not porta-potties? Instead of fixing all the restrooms up for somebody to come by and vandalize and tear them up, why don’t they just put some Johnny-on-the-Spots up there and use those restrooms when they when they need them? Just putting it out there Just a little reminder. You know, Donald

By NewsPress Now Cemetery looked great I’d like to compliment the staff at Mount Olivet Cemetery on how good the grounds looked, and the flags were beautiful. Thank you, veterans I’ve been watching the movies on TV about all of our veterans that fought in wars to keep us safe. I want to thank all

By NewsPress Now What’s up with that? Trump keeps saying he wants to get his side of the story out, but when they give him a chance to testify under oath, he passes. What’s up with that? Reminds me of Vietnam Listening to the news this morning about the bombing over the weekend that supposedly

By NewsPress Now Win or lose voters? Is Donald Trump’s “unified Reich” going to win voters or make them aware of the authoritarian threat he poses? Reflect and remember Monday, May 27, we chose to celebrate as Memorial Day. I hope everyone enjoys the three-day weekend, picnics and all that goes with it. We chose

By NewsPress Now It’s no Garden of Eden You know, if this town’s so fantastic to live in, this is the Garden of Eden in the Midwest, then where’s all the fantastic up-living civilians trying to get in this town and live here? You don’t see any lined up, do you? You want to know

By NewsPress Now Laugh, laugh, laugh Laugh, laugh, laugh about the sewer tax rate going up. That is horrible, terrible for this city. I am a widow on Social Security. My water bill is $20, $21 and my sewer tax bill is $53. Something is wrong there. Dangerous situation Could someone from the Parks Department

By NewsPress Now Jump off that train wreck If all American publicly traded companies were like Trump media, no one would buy stocks. In the greatest capitalistic country that ever existed, Trump’s company lost $300 million in the first quarter of 2024 on declining revenues, while paying its executives millions. If you are a stockholder,

By NewsPress Now It shouldn’t burden taxpayers For the person who informed us that sewer surcharge is a fee, not a tax, I want to inform them that that should fall under infrastructure, which should come under the general fund, not an extra expense to burden taxpayers. A detriment to the city You can call

By NewsPress Now It’s a fee, not a tax I wish people would realize that the sewer fee is not a tax. It is a user fee based on usage. Our sewer system is a utility that is owned and operated by the city. If you want to reduce your sewer fee, then reduce the

By NewsPress Now Stop raising taxes St. Joe’s wondering where all the population of the city’s going. Well, they’re raising the taxes: school taxes, sewer taxes, this tax, that tax. People can’t afford to live in this town. St. Joe, quit trying to be like Kansas City. We’re not. Quit raising all these taxes. Maybe

By NewsPress Now Going up and up Here we go again. The taxes go up and up and up. The school district wants to raise their taxes, the sewer bill’s going up 4%. With all the rate increases the last couple of years under the current administration, nobody can afford to live. It is horrible

By NewsPress Now Can’t believe it I can’t believe the City of St. Joseph is going to raise a sewer tax once again. Does the City Council or the city of St. Joseph not listen to its people? The people are tired of the sewer taxes going up and up. I, for one, am ready

By NewsPress Now Wouldn’t it be great? I’ve been doing some research on the recent one school versus two schools for the St. Joseph School District. I did some calculations, and if we go with one giant school for the city of St. Joseph, it will be the largest school in the state of Missouri

By NewsPress Now Simply ridiculous The Missouri Highway Patrol is 130 officers short. They cannot respond to accidents on U.S. highways, but our governor sends them to Texas. Ridiculous. America’s not stupid I believe all this theft with Trump happened a long time ago, before he was president the first time. The American voters can

By NewsPress Now An absolute disgrace Donald Trump is an absolute disgrace to this country. Trump has indictments against him, sexually assaulted a woman, tried to overturn election and much more. For Republicans to support this kind of behavior is even worse for our country. It’s not the Boy Scouts Now a lot of us

By NewsPress Now Strange use of the money This is the last season for Krug Park Pool because we don’t have enough money to repair it or keep a swimming pool open for the kids. However, we have $7 million to give to a private organization, the YMCA, to build their swimming pool. But we

By NewsPress Now The real news You have to watch MSNBC and CNN to get the truth about Donald Trump. FOX and Newsmax just cherry pick the items, and they cover for Trump. Working long and hard I have watched the slow degradation of this nation since the days of Vietnam. These professors have been

By NewsPress Now What’s wrong with America? What is wrong with this country? What’s going on in New York is literally ridiculous. Don’t we have the First Amendment to our Constitution anymore? They have just walked all over it, stomped on it and tried to bury it into the ground. I’m sick of what’s going

By NewsPress Now Kudos to Alonzo Kudos to Alonzo Weston for his article on mental illness in the Weekender. It definitely helps us be aware of what many go through, and that mental health is not a determinant of someone’s value. Thank you for the article. How will it survive? How can our democracy survive

By NewsPress Now It starts at home I believe in free speech. I believe in the right to protest. But I don’t believe anyone has a right to commit violence. But sadly, even though they got the Columbia incident stopped, the parents of those little anarchists will sue the NYPD because this starts at home.

By NewsPress Now Unethical behavior Unethical behavior has won again in the Missouri Legislature. Dean Plocher, Speaker of the House, was accused of using his political influence to block an ethics investigation into his misuse of state tax money and using the office to help his employer win a high dollar contract from the state

By NewsPress Now What they don’t realize I see a lot of these college campuses are protesting the financing of the Israel and Gaza war. Well, what they haven’t realized — we financed every war for the past 20 years in some way or another. Also, there was a big stink about these immigrants coming

By NewsPress Now Spend some money here I’m over here at Wyeth lookout park and the fascia boards are really rough. The roof is slowly losing its tiles. I believe I read something where the city was going to spend some money on parks. So, I’m hoping this is on it because they already spent