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
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By NewsPress Now Platte County Chiefs I am all for the Kansas City Chiefs getting a new football stadium. I say move it to Platte County and call them the Platte County Chiefs. There’s plenty of land in Platte County. It’s in the center of everywhere so there would be plenty of parking, and it
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By NewsPress Now Platte County Chiefs I am all for the Kansas City Chiefs getting a new football stadium. I say move it to Platte County and call them the Platte County Chiefs. There’s plenty of land in Platte County. It’s in the center of everywhere so there would be plenty of parking, and it
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By Danny Tyree Cagle Syndicate The venerable comic strip “Gasoline Alley” is wrapping up a storyline in which the dastardly assistant mayor schemed to change the town’s name from Gasoline Alley to the ostensibly more modern Electric Acres (without even offering a compromise such as Hybrid Hollow). Sentimentality saved the day in the funnies, just
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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. My father and I butted heads throughout my youth, but once he finally matured a
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By NewsPress Now Since when? Since when has it been illegal for politicians to pay people to keep things quiet? They all do it. Good actors, but not politicians I’d just like to say to Michael Douglas and Mark Hamill, I used to like guys as actors. But you are not good politicians. When you
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By NewsPress Now The deadline for filing income taxes came and went this month with hardly a visible wisp of activity at the U.S. post office in Downtown St. Joseph. Not so long ago, vehicles lined the streets outside the building as procrastinators dropped off income tax returns before the midnight deadline. The big change
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 26, 2024 Public education Once again, public education is showing off its finest product. All across our great country, pro-Hamas demonstrators are closing down universities and chanting “Death to America.” How entitled do these idiots really think they are? Death to the very taxpayers they believe should pay
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By Alonzo Weston In the span of a month, I lost a cousin and a childhood friend. My friend John died a month ago after a long battle with cancer. They found my cousin Curtis McGaughy dead in his apartment a week ago. It seems that when you reach a certain age you get to
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Sporadic rainfall deficits have spurred ongoing periods of drought across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas for the past several years. According to the U.S. drought monitor, most of the Show Me state north of the Missouri River was under abnormally dry to moderate drought conditions to start the year.
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By NewsPress Now Glad to see it I am glad to see Senator McConnell and some other Republican leadership stand up to Trump and Putin’s favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene. Absolutely the opposite I was just looking at a couple of old notes, and the News-Press said, four years ago, we had the lowest inflation and
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By NewsPress Now Suggestions for using the money I heard on the news that the city council and the city manager will be considering how to spend COVID money over the next year. I would suggest very strongly that some of that money be spent to actually relieve the burden of the citizens of St.
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By NewsPress Now I’m proud of him I’m not a Speaker Johnson fan, but I’m sure proud of him standing up for his country, our country. It took a lot of courage. But he is the speaker of the house. A Speaker of the House not only represents his party, but all of America. And,
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By NewsPress Now Just so you know I was a little shocked to see, going through the tunnels up at Krug Park, that the cars behind me were obviously not making any wishes and honking twice like you’re supposed to like we did. But nobody else did. Just so everybody knows, that’s what you’re supposed
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By NewsPress Now So goes our state politics The immediate past president of the United States stands trial on felony charges. Meanwhile, Missouri’s two senators support his bid to be our next president. Meanwhile, the Missouri Speaker of the House uses the power of his office to head off investigation into his alleged misconduct. So
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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. Callaway is a county in Mid-Missouri that has a history like no other … it’s
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 19, 2024 Celebrating laboratory professionals The week of April 15th is celebrated as national laboratory professionals week. Working in clinical and research labs throughout the world, these individuals perform tests on blood and tissue to help medical professionals treat patients. Over 75% of treatment decisions are made based
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By Alonzo Weston I had coffee with a couple of retired newspaper friends the other day at Hazel’s Downtown. After we got caught up on what our former News-Press colleagues were up to now, our conversation turned to our fair city. St. Joseph still has its charm as well as its problems but we found
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By NewsPress Now What’s going on now? I’m wondering why I’m getting phone calls from out of town from people I know kind of laughing about the school board issue and some gal going around throwing the F bomb at everybody. Just what’s going on with the St. Joe School Board now? Just wow Heard
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By NewsPress Now Step away from the TV How about you left wingers get off CNN and MSNBC and see what’s really going on in this country? Oh my goodness, you’ve got to get away from those TV stations. Arrest them All of these pro-Palestinian demonstrations that they’re having, they should arrest anyone that is
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By NewsPress Now Totally unacceptable Why are the bathrooms at Bartlett Park not working? I took my grandson over there and there were about 40 kids there playing and there was nowhere for nobody to go to bathroom. For the money we pay in parks tax, this is totally unacceptable and I’m tired of it.
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By NewsPress Now They have the same leadership style When Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, he met with Viktor Orban, the pro-Putin, anti-Democratic leader of Hungary, at Mar-a-Lago. Trump and Orban made it public that they both have the same style of leadership. After many scandals, it looks like after 10 years of autocratic
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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. Jesse James is known far and wide because he robbed places far and wide. It’s
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By NewsPress Now Don’t ignore the old parts of town This is about the new pool proposal at the new Y. I would just suggest that if the city or anybody is going to spend any more of taxpayer money, please put it in the old parts of St. Joe. It was wonderful. We had
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for April 12, 2024 Harrison County Community Hospital I was born in Ridgeway, and other than a 10 or so year period when my parents rented a farm in Albany, Missouri, I have lived in Harrison County all of my life. In 1989, the residents of Harrison County were asked
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now In a certain part of town, a vacant building in St. Joseph was once sprayed-painted with a simple, two-word message: Vote no. That’s St. Joseph in a nutshell. It doesn’t matter what the issue is. If it’s on the ballot, specifically if it involves forking over tax dollars, then it’s best to
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By Alonzo Weston Kansas City voters resoundingly rejected a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown Royals ballpark and make major renovations to the Chiefs’ Arrowhead stadium. That stands in sharp contrast to St. Joseph voters who approved a bond issue that will renovate facilities and get the ball rolling
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By NewsPress Now There are two choices We have two choices in this election. Biden, who works for the American people, or Trump, who only cares about himself and wants everyone else to pay his legal fees. Trump has indictments and felony charges against him. He paid a woman millions of dollars for sexual assault.
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By NewsPress Now What gives you the right? Joe, you and the far-left Democrats, the biggest laughingstock in the world that there is, what gives you the right to talk about other people interfering in our elections when you’re trying to interfere in Israel and what’s going on in that nation? Just one question With
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By NewsPress Now Avoiding more chaos This is in response to “Two Choices.” I totally agree with the caller and that’s why I will be casting my vote for Donald J. Trump to avoid four more years of utter chaos and destruction of America. Acting pretty bizarre I get it that the solar eclipse is
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