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Prop S deserves a ‘yes’ vote

By NewsPress Now A proposed 60% pay increase should send morale through the roof, but some observers noticed a surprisingly tepid response to a significant development in starting salaries for Missouri teachers. It isn’t that school officials lacked appreciation for legislation that seeks to raise starting pay from $25,000 to $40,000 in Missouri, where teaching

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The ‘dog days of summer’ are here to stay

By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist The air has been heavy, afternoons long and temperatures high across the Mid-Missouri River Valley for what seems like an eternity. It’s official, the “dog days of summer” have arrived with the end of July, but what does this age-old phrase actually mean? According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac,

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Your letters for July 26, 2024

By NewsPress Now Your letters for July 26, 2024 Show teachers they are valued Among several norms that I committed to when joining the Saint Joseph School District Board of Education this past April was to “serve as an advocate for K-12 public education with student achievement/outcomes as the focus.” Advocating for public education comes

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Bring local back to our business community

By Alonzo Weston I read the other day in the St. Joseph News-Press Midweek edition that business is expanding in the southeast part of the city. The article touted the grand opening of the new Reed Chevrolet facilities along Commonwealth Court near Menards. Forgive me for waxing nostalgic, but I remember when the area was

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It’s Your Call for July 25

By NewsPress Now Have you heard this one? Did you hear the one about the felon and the prosecutor that walked into a bar in Milwaukee? They were late for the presidential debate. Something needs to be done Something needs to be done about the unwanted phone calls and text messages from politicians. I called

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It’s Your Call for July 23

By NewsPress Now Terrible mistake, in my opinion I’m calling about the Missouri Western State University Athletic Department. They just made a decision, I understand, to take their ball games off of KFEQ radio. For me, that’s a terrible mistake on their part. Lots of lies I just heard Hakeem Jefferies praise Biden as the

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It’s Your Call for July 22

By NewsPress Now Business as usual Well, good news, St. Joseph. I see we have a new police chief, but that’s not the good news. The good news is it’s business as usual. No checking for outdated drivers license plates and no chasing the bad guys. In other words, it’s business as usual. Before they

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I’m so tired of deleting spam, don’t do that, fry it!

By Bob Ford Special to Articles and podcasts are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Eagle Communications, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join in supporting this 503©(3) organization, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. If you got spammed in Austin, Minnesota, you weren’t thinking about annoying emails.

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Make America great for all of us

By Alonzo Weston Everybody knows by now that a lone gunman made an assassination attempt on former president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump last Saturday while addressing a campaign rally near Buller, Pennsylvania. We also know the shooter was a 20-year-old man described as a loner and bullied oddball who was a registered

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It’s Your Call for July 12

By NewsPress Now Get on the ball, St. Joe I was calling about the senior citizens. You know, there’s other states that’s passed and towns that have passed for the senior citizens to not to pay property tax so they can have money to buy their food and their medication and other things they desperately

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Biden needs grade-schooling

By Peter Funt Cagle Syndicate Joe Biden’s closest confidants are wrestling with the same questions that 81.2 million of us who voted for him in 2020 have been mulling since the President’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump. For answers, I turned to a fifth grader named Emily, who, though a figment of my imagination, dispenses

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Easy money era will come to an end

By NewsPress Now Buchanan County’s legislative delegation should send a big “thank you” bouquet to the person who picked the morning of June 28 for a public affairs gathering to discuss the 2024 regular session in Jefferson City. Lawmakers were able to walk into the Stoney Creek Hotel and talk up all the money they

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Reading into reading levels

By Alexandra Paskhaver Cagle Syndicate Deep down, I am a very shallow person. That’s why I was appalled to find that some books have age limits recommended on the back cover. I may not be the perfect middle schooler those authors have in mind, but since when are adults discouraged from reading James Patterson? What

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Your letters for July 12, 2024

By NewsPress Now Your letters for July 12, 2024 They’re not fooling anyone now James Clyburn of South Carolina at long last has become nothing more than a piece of “human waste!” He claimed that Donald Trump lied more than 30+ times in the presidential debate against Sniff Biden. Trump did not need to lie;

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It’s Your Call for July 11

By NewsPress Now Why isn’t it happening here? Are Buchanan County seniors ever going to get a break on property taxes? It’s happening everywhere else. Why not here? Looking for a solution We didn’t know what to do. Today, like many days, between 9:18 and 10:20, we received 23 calls from all different areas that

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It’s Your Call for July 9

By NewsPress Now That’s just life This is a comment on the It’s Your Call column in Monday’s paper, “It could be worse.” Interest rates on mortgages, yes, back in 1981, when Jimmy Carter was president, the market interest rate on mortgages was over 18% because I had one. Couldn’t get any one close to

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