Opinion

What is happening? What in the world are we allowing to happen? Pardoning criminals who assaulted police officers on Jan. 6 and then now we are purging the dedicated employees who make our government function. Lives are being destroyed. Central services to our citizens are disrupted. This is not a reality TV show. These are

Not right One less high school means one less football team, basketball team both boys and girls, volleyball, school play. And 1/3 of the kids will no longer be involved. That is not right. Makes no sense The Ukrainians have held off mighty Russia for three years, and now Trump and Vance want to give

Feeling bullied I was just wondering if anybody else is feeling like they’re being bullied by the school district because I sure am. Invoke the 25th amendment It seems it would be a good plan for Vice President Vance to convene the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment, declare Donald Trump incapacitated for mental health

Leave it alone Well, I see they want to build new high schools and make Benton a middle school. Why don’t they just leave stuff alone? It worked well for decades. Can never deliver a package My house is plainly marked with my address, yet the Amazon driver can never deliver a package to my

Prices will go up Just a heads up, your utility costs are probably going to skyrocket. The Republican led Missouri Senate passed a bill on Monday that allows utility companies to get rate increases based on projected cost rather than their actual costs. So much for bringing prices down. What a great person Well, according

Not surprising A few days ago, on the Hannity show, Trump said he was not going to touch Medicare and Medicaid. And the very next day, the Republican Party slashed benefits to Medicaid. Sad to see Everyone who voted for Trump is responsible for what is happening to our country. It’s just so sad that

Pleas replace it Will somebody please replace the rubber on the sides of the city boat dock before they put it out this year? The giant screws that are sticking out are causing thousands of dollars’ worth of damage to people’s boats because the rubber hasn’t been replaced or just put back on. Please replace

Very sad I always thought of America as the leader of the free world and the defender of freedom, liberty and democracy. Now, for whatever reason, our president seems more aligned with Russia and Putin. Very sad. A disgusting display What a disgusting spectacle we witnessed in the White House last Friday. Two bullies ganging

The wrong question The News-Press Ping Poll question, more opportunities for young athletes in St. Joseph, is the wrong question. The question is, do two high schools create more opportunities, period, not just for athletes, and the answer is yes. There are many more opportunities with two high schools. Which would you rather have? Which

More opportunities with three To the person who said that there are more opportunities with two high schools, where did you learn math? With three high schools, you have 33 boys on the field playing football, with two high schools you have 22. You got 15 boys and 15 girls playing basketball, with two high

Do some research To the person who thinks there are more opportunities at three schools than there are two, you need to do some research. Central has three times as many people involved in athletics as Benton and Lafayette. Central has more academic opportunities than Benton or Lafayette. The kids in Benton and Lafayette do

How quick they forget In regards to Trump withholding a military aid to Ukraine, it’s funny how quick Democrats forget that Biden withheld the aid and financial assistance to Israel, our ally in the Middle East, up until recently. Interesting to see It would be interesting to know how anyone could still vote for a

Get him out I completely agree with Richard Sharp and his article in the paper the letters to the editor. Can we impeach the Superintendent of the school since he doesn’t want to listen to all the people that are paying his check? I say get him out. Keep our schools at three high schools.

Please fix it I just want to do a second plea to replace the rubber on the city boat ramp. Please do that. It’s dangerous. People can get cut on it. It tears your boat up. And they just need to fix it. It’s been like that for three years now, so please, city, fix

Spending money like drunken sailors The New York Post website says ignore the stock market, Wall Street dealing with painful detox from government spending addiction. Boy, isn’t that true? That was on Fox News. And I started clapping. Yep, they’re spending on money like a bunch of drunken sailors. Now let’s see if we can

What’s going on? Lafayette has had two additions since it was built. It’s got half as many students as it had back in the ’60s and they don’t have enough room? What, are kids 10 times the size that they were in those days? What’s going on? Stop it now It’s time us taxpayers sent

Unappealing schools St. Joseph will never be attractive to new, young professionals until a new, state-of-the-art school is built. We’re a wonderful community, but our schools look like 1910 prisons, which are very unappealing to incoming young families. Town halls When will Sam Graves have an open town hall in St. Joseph? And when is

Healthy and glad I was looking at the paper here and it says, “Do you do anything to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?” I celebrate every St. Patrick’s Day, which is my birthday. So, I celebrate it. I’m getting older every year, but I’m healthy and I’m glad. Be more cognizant With all the motorcyclists running

Very inconvenient That is so inconvenient you can’t get out of the South End to go north on King Hill. It’s been too long, and I don’t see them working on it anymore. What’s the deal? Not attractive To the guy wondering about the new young professionals needing good schools to move to St. Joe.

By NewsPress Now Some free advice to the city Here’s some free advice for the City of St. Joe. Those downtown multi-level parking lots are nothing but bathrooms for the homeless. Knock them down and put in regular open parking lots. There would still be plenty of parking spaces for any event that’s held downtown.

By NewsPress Now New faces needed After watching all this football, I feel there should be a lot of new, shiny faces on some of them teams. The coaches and offensive coordinators, and my God, some of them are a mess. There ain’t no excuse for that, especially like Chicago and some of them. New

By NewsPress Now When will it stop? Evergy this summer wanted everybody to pick on what savings they wanted to do on electrical bills. Now I see in the paper they want it increased. So, they want increase that we’re saving money, and they want an increase now? When is this going to stop? A