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.
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By NewsPress Now St. Joseph enters the new year with new leadership ready to take the helm in local government and public education. Mike Schumacher was hired as city manager and is expected to begin his duties around Jan. 21. Ashly McGinnis was named superintendent of the St. Joseph School District and takes over for
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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
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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
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles, podcasts and YouTube videos are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Nodaway Valley Bank, Hughes Chiropractic and Anonymous Buffs. If you love history, we are seeking sponsors to run this column. To comment or join in supporting this non-profit, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com. All the talk and strategies
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now The grand opening of the InspireU Children’s Discovery Center gives the community plenty to celebrate. The Mosaic Life Care Foundation led the fundraising effort to renovate the Plymouth Building and develop an interactive experience with exhibits for families with children ages 10 and younger. In terms of fundraising and community support, the
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Dec. 27, 2024 One cent makes no sense It never ceases to amaze me how our government officials think. I see where our current City Manager Clint Thompson thinks another penny CIP tax at North Mall is no big deal. Let’s put this in perspective. If I make an
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now As 2024 comes to an end, News-Press NOW is saying goodbye to an old friend. Alonzo Weston’s “Street Smarts” column is concluding its run. Weston, a longtime and award-winning journalist with the St. Joseph News-Press, covered a range of topics over his years as a reporter, including education and social services. But
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By Alonzo Weston Poet T.S. Eliot said it best perhaps: “And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” That is very fitting as this is my last “Street Smarts” column in the St. Joseph News-Press. Where I go or what I do going forward is anyone’s
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By Payton Counts News-Press NOW meteorologist The holiday season is behind us. However, many people are busy and often on the roads. This makes weather a crucial factor when planning ahead for long car trips to see family or friends. Luckily, this Christmas was a pretty uneventful one in terms of the weather. The forecast
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By NewsPress Now The city’s dropping the ball on streets I called in about 3 months ago about part of the street that is missing in front the driveway on Oakland Ave. Nothing’s ever been done. The city’s dropping the dropping the ball on getting the street and the curbs fixed like it’s supposed to
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By NewsPress Now Come together for the holidays In a time of such division in the United States, I hope we can all come together and enjoy the holidays. Merry Christmas to all. Can someone explain? Could someone please explain to us on N 36th St. and Karnes Rd. why the city has been screwing
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By NewsPress Now Shouldn’t be allowed I called about an e-bike that was going about 25, I would guess, miles an hour. The guy had a ski mask on, right on this narrow Parkway path. I actually had to go out to the grass because I didn’t want him to hit me. Today, we had
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By NewsPress Now Keep them coming The Bob Ford articles are great. Keep them coming. What’s going on? I understand that many employers didn’t want to opt into the Social Security system, but rather went with a pension. Now, all the sudden, they want to give 3 million people Social Security who don’t deserve it
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By NewsPress Now Reuse the land we have I just wanted to comment about the 10 acres acquired for future development. When is this city and the world, some cities have recognized the inability of us to keep eating up undeveloped land. We’re going to end up with a world that is not worth living
Continue Reading By NewsPress Now On Oct. 1, a press release from Northwest Missouri State University proclaimed that enrollment had surpassed 9,000 for the second straight year. It was a true statement, but a closer reading of the release showed that the total headcount had actually dropped 5.3% from the previous year. Northwest tried to put a
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Dec. 20, 2024 Shooting school students in Madison, Wisconsin I’ve seen no evidence that Western European countries have fewer mentally disturbed people than we do in the United States. Yet these countries have virtually no mass shootings or attacks on schools. The difference in them and us was demonstrated
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By Alonzo Weston This Saturday, Dec. 21, will be the longest night of the year. Astronomically it is the winter solstice when, thanks to the Earth’s tilted axis, half of the planet is pointed away from the sun and the other half is towards it. This Saturday, stand outside at noon and look at your
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Meteorological winter arrived several weeks ago, but the winter solstice marks the “official” or astronomical start of the season. This benchmark in time reminds us of the tilt of Earth’s axis, driving seasonal changes across the globe through its year-long orbit around the sun. Opposite to the summer solstice,
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By NewsPress Now Going without clean drinking water I just want to say that representatives, the Department of Natural Resources and the Governor’s Office, they have all failed Maysville, Missouri, citizens. These people have been without clean drinking water for months and months and months. I have called all these offices. Would be nice to
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By NewsPress Now Increase in security St. Joe School District needs to figure out a way immediately to put a safety officer in every school. It will be too late after something like happened yesterday in Wisconsin happens. Lying to the people Concerning the issue of the drone being seen in several states here in
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By NewsPress Now Shouldn’t be subsidizing trash Buchanan County taxpayers should not be subsidizing trash coming in from Kansas City, surrounding areas and Kansas. Either raise the fee significantly for out-of-county trash haulers or tell them they can’t dump at the local landfill. On another note, the landfill needs to be a better neighbor to
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By NewsPress Now What they should do I should say that they should raise the price at the dump for anybody that doesn’t reside in the Buchanan County area. Those people get the discount price, but anybody outside of St. Joseph should have to pay double. That’s what they should do. One of the solutions
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles, podcasts and YouTube videos are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Eagle Communications, Nodaway Valley Bank, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. If you love history, we are seeking sponsors to run this column. To comment or join in supporting this non-profit, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com.
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By Bob Ford Special to Articles, podcasts and YouTube videos are complimentary from those helping preserve our history: Eagle Communications, Nodaway Valley Bank, Hughes Chiropractic, The Hearing Connection and Anonymous Buffs. If you love history, we are seeking sponsors to run this column. To comment or join in supporting this non-profit, contact Bob at robertmford@aol.com.
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By NewsPress Now How much longer? I was wondering how much longer it take the city to fix 36th St. That thing’s been closed almost a year. Why don’t they hire Herzog? They’ll do it right the first time. The city’s dragging their feet, putting an inconvenience for everybody who needs to get down that
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By NewsPress Now Your letters for Dec. 13, 2024 Get us out of the U.N. Have the Republicans co-sponsored the “Defund Act” H.R. 6645 and S3428, which would fully withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. and U.N from the U.S? Whereas this is under the UN’s net zero banking alliance (NZBA) plan. U.S. Bank, Wells
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By Jared Shelton News-Press NOW meteorologist Winter snowfall gets mixed reviews from most Americans. Some enjoy a blanket of white while others cringe at the idea of even a chance of snow in the forecast. When snow comes down on Christmas, the novelty factor tends to run a bit higher for many. After all, a
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By Alonzo Weston Friend and former News-Press editorial page editor Mark Sheehan used to allow himself two columns a year about the Kansas City Chiefs. I’ll allow myself only one maybe ever. Here it goes. The Kansas City Chiefs this year give everyone near heart attacks with their last-minute wins over opponents. You can call
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By NewsPress Now Why we can’t have nice things I just heard report on the news about somebody stealing from the Holiday Park Joseph and baby Jesus. This is why St. Joe can’t have anything. I mean, what do we have to do? Put security around every display that makes sure somebody doesn’t steal it?
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