By NewsPress Now The city of St. Joseph sets aside about $5.4 million a year for street maintenance, a figure that includes funding for snow and ice removal when winter weather hits. Boy, did it hit this month. Drivers encountered plenty of frustration and city street crews experienced their share of headaches when several rounds
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By Alonzo Weston Coming out of a Downtown bakery Tuesday, I saw Bag-Head Jheri, the Messanie Street Philosopher, walking aimlessly down Eighth Street. He looked dejected and deep in thought. “What’s up, Bag?” I said by way of greeting. “Hey Weston, got silly stuff troublin’ my mind,” Bag said shaking his head. “What now?” I
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Jan. 26, 2024 Why not show the world? I have a question. Considering the court case against Mr. Trump in Georgia is televised, why wouldn’t he want to go live and show the world how the 2020 election was stolen? Why doesn’t he want to go to trial? Roger
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist After 10 days of subfreezing temperatures and several rounds of accumulating snowfall, the wintry landscape across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas has entered a melting phase over the past several days. While the idea of warmer temperatures and shrinking snowpack is enticing for most, the transition has been a
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By NewsPress Now Greatly appreciated I just want to thank the gentleman who shovels off Central’s track every year so people can walk. It’s greatly appreciated. Excellent service We had a problem with my electricity. Various things. I called Evergy and they were here within probably less than two hours. They were here quite a
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By NewsPress Now Top heavy The St. Joseph School District is too top heavy. They need to get rid of the some of the administration that’s unnecessary. Then you’d have more money to play around with. Very disturbing The people of this country should want to elect a president that follows the law, not one
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By NewsPress Now Explain it to me Please explain to me how spending $20 million on three aging high school sports fields helps the school district that has 70% free and reduced lunches, three aging schools and low teacher pay. What about them? I’m trying to address this levy that they want to pass in
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By NewsPress Now Top concern Our congressman just sent out an e-mail informing us that the border is his top concern. Our district is a thousand miles from the border. Think about it I’m going to keep harping on this initiative petition process that the Republican supermajority is trying to pass through the legislature. Instead
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By Tom Purcell Cagle Syndicate I forgot what it was like to experience a good old common cold. Prior to covid, you see, the cold-getting experience went like this: I’d wake with a stuffy nose and scratchy throat and my only thought was to curse the gods for visiting a new virus cocktail on me
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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, Mastio and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join them in supporting, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. The freedom to fly like a bird has always been a quest of man. Leonardo da Vinci put
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By NewsPress Now No excuse The city did a horrible job on our roads and there’s no excuse for it. In fact, I’ve been out three days in a row and have yet to see one city worker doing anything to a street. I’ve seen two city trucks, the white pickups, but that’s it. Treat
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By Jase Graves Disclaimer: No pets die in this column (but they sometimes smell like they did). As I write, I’m trying to relax in my recliner on a cold winter’s day next to a roaring fire, yet my feet are freezing because a large, semi-elderly cat named “Missy” – AKA “The Loaf” – is
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Wintry weather has recently dominated conditions across the Midwest and Great Plains, with strong pushes of arctic air bringing subzero temperatures and supporting bouts of accumulating snowfall. Over the past week and a half, residents of Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas have endured lengthy periods of single-digit to subzero
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now A win’s a win, but last Saturday’s playoff game didn’t look like much fun for those fans who braved ice-bowl conditions at Arrowhead Stadium. Maybe those who endured the Lambeau Field-in-January experience could draw comfort in looking six months into the future. On a blessedly hot, humid day in July, many of
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By NewsPress Now He’s already done it I remember whenever Trump was running for his second term, Lemon said that if we voted for Trump, that all the things that he said Trump would do, would get us into war and all this. Well, Biden’s already done that. How much lower? Republicans are so desperate
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By NewsPress Now Ridiculous conditions It looks like the city, county and state road crews all took a three-day weekend for the Martin Luther King holiday. I have never seen our streets this bad for so long and it’s ridiculous. What’s being done? Several of us were sitting around, watching the football game. At halftime,
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By NewsPress Now Making the switch I went out to the optimum office here in St. Joe, and half the people coming in were turning in their equipment, and I said, how come? And they said because the service is so bad, they’re switching over to fiber optic. Paint the road I would like to
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By NewsPress Now Crack down on them I’m calling in here wondering why St. Joe doesn’t crack down on these people that got expired tags. I had five cars parked around me yesterday, and none of them had a tag on them. Not even a temporary tag. And these speeders, my God. They’re out there
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By NewsPress Now Where are the local bids? Hello. This is in regards to the window replacement at City Hall. Was there not a local company that put in a bid on these windows? Seems we use out-of-town companies for everything. Instead of trying to get someone local, can someone comment on this? Sad to
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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, Mastio and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join them in supporting, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. Mountain climbers and explorers know, it’s not going out, it’s coming back. Most accidents occur on the descent.
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By Danny Tyree Cagle Syndicate Without much fanfare (okay, I did write and voice a radio commercial noting the milestone), I recently marked 25 years of my “day job” working for a farmers cooperative. I realize lots of other people have spent at least 25 years with a single employer; but given the impact of
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now Red vs. blue battle lines exist in the Missouri legislature, but they aren’t the sole source of friction in Jefferson City. Sometimes the real conflict is between rural and urban, with suburban areas and mid-sized cities like St. Joseph playing an important role in determining the outcome. For example, the urban-rural split
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By Jared Shelton This week is proving to be a turning point for Central Plains weather, as Old Man Winter sweeps across the northern half of the U.S. with a vengeance. Snow has been the biggest indicator of change across Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas, with a winter storm blanketing the landscape with four to
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By Alonzo Weston Folk wisdom has it that death comes in threes. If that’s true then the St. Joseph News-Press got hit hard recently. Last week I wrote about how we lost former managing editor Bob Waldrop and former city editor Bill Scott. Now we’ve lost Terry Jordan, a well-known reporter and editor at the
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By NewsPress Now No vaccine for hate In this day and age, everything’s about infectious diseases. The most prevalent infectious disease on the planet is hate, and there is no vaccine for that. A real shocker Well, no one should be surprised if Senator Menendez’s name shows up in the Epstein list. I think most
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By NewsPress Now It’s about time You know, in these conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, you know, we’ve given them billions. And you sure don’t hear about much of these other countries giving in anything. All this food going to Gaza, it sounds like we’re we’re paying for it all. I think it’s about
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By NewsPress Now We’ll never know Well, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that there are three things the American people will never know, and that is whether there are UFOs, who killed John Kennedy and who was on Jeffrey Epstein’s list? Still running around Well, it’s the third anniversary of the coup that
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By NewsPress Now Out of touch Is Jill Biden really wearing a red coat at Bally’s board? She probably doesn’t realize that we bought the British Bally Borg and they wore red coach like. Don’t get rid of them And answer to “Get rid of them.” Well, I’ll tell you what. I sleep real good
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By Elwood Watson Cagle Syndicate Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself, who were born between 1965 and 1980. We were a generation that has been perennially pegged as cynical, self-indulgent, aimless, contrarian, and often peripheral when it comes
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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, Mastio and Anonymous Buffs. To comment or join them in supporting, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. For “empire building” countries, the name of the game in the 1700s and early 1800s was exploration and
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