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
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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
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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. My first experience behind the wheel was driving on the Daytona International Speedway
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for May 17, 2024 It’s 1939 again … On at least two different fronts! We’re all, by now, familiar with the Soros led and paid for protests at most Ivy League universities and others across our country. I can hearken back to the Vietnam War protests of the 60s where
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By NewsPress Now Even in this era of iPhones and video games, summer days at the pool bring a universal appeal. Kids today aren’t that different from previous generations. They need a place to soak up the sun, get wet and test their courage on the big diving board. Fortunately, there are plenty of modern
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By Alonzo Weston When I think of May, my wife Deanna and brother Alex’s birthdays on May 15 come to mind. This year in May, I’ll attend the funeral of one of my three cousins who died during the past month. Folklore has it that people born in May are more likely to achieve higher
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Drought conditions across Northwest Missouri have been steadily declining over the past few months. As of this week, the year-long drought brought on by persisting rainfall deficits officially has been busted locally, with every square mile of land north of the Missouri River back to baseline in terms of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 As day one of the Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing came to an end,
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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
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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
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now Once upon a time, St. Joseph counted itself as a safe city. It wasn’t as exciting or glamorous as a large metropolitan area, but St. Joseph could always boast a low crime rate and a quality of life that made it a good place to raise a family. That sense of safety
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By Alonzo Weston There was a time when having a speech impediment was considered a mental illness. If that was so, I’ve been mentally ill most of my life because I stutter. My stutter began sometime in the fifth grade. I never knew what triggered it but I had just finished third and fourth grade
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist After years of widespread drought and low water levels across large swaths of the Missouri River basin, the longest waterway in the U.S. is once again flowing in abundance. This is especially true for the lower Missouri River Basin, where recent rains have pushed some water to flood stage.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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By Dean Johnson Quality Schools Coalition Special to In his final year in office, Governor Mike Parson has proposed significant investments in Missouri’s families, teachers, and students. Senate Bill 727, a bipartisan education package, now awaits Parson’s signature, promising higher teacher salaries and increased pre-K enrollment in public schools. Missouri has long neglected these areas,
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles and Podcasts are complementary from those helping to preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Eagle Communication, Rupp Funeral Home, Stevenson Family Pharmacy and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join them as sponsors, email robertmford@aol.com. The Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing was the first massive clash of the Civil War. On
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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
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now A sudden power outage gave nearly 30,000 St. Joseph-area electric customers plenty to contemplate one day last month. Businesses and individuals with critical power needs were left wondering how long it would take to restore service. Conspiracy theorists speculated on the possibility of a cyberattack, a scenario that isn’t far-fetched based on
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist The first half of April was relatively quiet when it came to severe weather across the mid-Missouri River Valley. The first two weeks of the month featured no reports of damaging winds or tornadoes, and only one isolated report of sizable hail throughout all of Northwest Missouri. The second
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By Alonzo Weston May is the month for things to bloom, including our awareness of mental health. May has been recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month since 1949. It aims to address the challenges faced by millions of Americans living with mental health issues. It’s also important to address the stigma associated with mental illness.
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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
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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
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