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It’s Your Call for Jan. 17

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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Been at your job too long?

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

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Hegeman gives hope to rural motorists

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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It’s Your Call for Dec. 11

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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It’s Your Call for Dec. 10

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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It’s Your Call for Dec. 9

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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It’s Your Call for Dec. 5

By NewsPress Now Arbitrary decision Who benefits? Since the school district is considering arbitrarily lowering the school week from five days to four days, can we, as taxpayers, lower our real estate school tax arbitrarily by 20% also? How can that be? I see there’s several more truckloads of litter around the Boulevard. How can

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Generation X is almost 60

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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Less is more with this legislature

By NewsPress Now Heading into this year’s legislative session, it might be worth examining one of the Missouri General Assembly’s accomplishments in 2023. A law prohibiting texting while driving took effect on Aug. 28. This measure replaced the previous law that was limited to drivers under the age of 21, a piece of legislative nonsense

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New year, new weather pattern

By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist The 2023-24 cold season has been a stale one for winter lovers across the Midwest. Aside from a few brief spells of polar air, temperatures here in the Central Plains generally trended above average through the final three months of last year, while precipitation remained below average. Given the

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It’s Your Call for Dec. 4

By NewsPress Now They don’t know anything I never thought I’d find somebody more ignorant than Donald Trump is about the U.S. Constitution and the legal system until I read about his lawyers. They don’t know anything about the Constitution or the legal system. Just get along I love the Chiefs. I’ve been a fan

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It’s Your Call for Dec. 2

By NewsPress Now Do we need it? Do we really need another publicity-seeking individual on St. Joseph’s School Board? Aggressive dogs Why do people bring aggressive dogs to the dog park? My 15-year-old beagle was just attacked by two big, aggressive dogs. The owner had no control over his dogs. She made it without a

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