Editorial

As your community hospital, it is important that we keep you informed and confident in what we are doing to respond to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 Pandemic. These are extraordinary times for public health. Not only are we at heightened concern for the communities we serve, but we’re also extending that concern to our families, friends, and neighbors, to local businesses and restaurants. Please...

I would like to speak out on the small cemetery that is north of Campanella Drive on Ingram Road. I believe it is called the Hart Cemetery, it is also known as the Baby Blue Graveyard. It’s a historical place and I’ve noticed there is a bulldozer and some excavating equipment sitting back there up on top of the hill. Back a year or two ago they went in there and tore up land around it. There were...

As the coronavirus continues to creep into our area and impact our everyday lives, we are left looking for a model of how we act and react. Americans have lived through tough times through history but for many alive today, our tough times have been limited. None of us have ever lived through anything like this. We’ve lived through 9/11, we have lived through hurricanes and tornadoes and we have...

I’m calling about the coronavirus. It reminds me of the movie “War of the Worlds.” It’s something that the doctors don’t know how to contain it because it’s airborne. It’s prayer time America. Pray that God will step in and help out our cities and help out our states also. Thank you.

Over the past several weeks, I have spent much of my time as city manager monitoring state and federal government guidance on COVID-19 and adjusting city operations to comply with any recommendations and directives issued by health authorities. At the same time, like many Sikestonians, I have been dealing with the ramifications of these conditions at home, where my five children and teacher wife...

To whom it may concern. Does anybody remember the Hong Kong Flu? I think it’s coming back and it’s called coronavirus with a vengeance.

Dear Editor, As you evaluate a COVID-19 emergency aid package, I urge you to support charities and nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable people and communities at this time of need. Charities and nonprofits need the following policies to maintain operations, expand scope to address increasing demand, and stabilize losses from closures:...

I was calling to find out from your readers what can be done about a 35-year-old man who refused to put his 2-year-old child in a car seat and rides around with the baby walking around in the back seat, unrestrained from a car seat or seat belt or anything. Just walking around, driving down the interstate that way with that child. This man has already had several seat belt violations and is not...

Make no mistake; the coronavirus is here. Instead of enjoying the coming of spring and (hopefully) the dry, sunny and warmer days, we are staying indoors and practicing “social distancing,” a term that was foreign to us just weeks ago. Every one of us has already been impacted in some way by the coronavirus. ...

Yes, I would like to comment to the Speakout that military is socialism. I have no idea where this person got their opinion. I think they crawled out from under a rock. I spent over 20 years in the military. I do not consider it socialism and I do not have free medical. I have no idea where they got their information unless they were an unhappy draftee.

Everyone has been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak. Let’s make no mistake about that. There is one group of people impacted by all of this that’s tugging at my heart a bit this week, and that’s our high school seniors. Now, I know school districts will reevaluate the situation on April 3 — and I know this initial decision was not an easy one for our school administrators to make. ...

I went shopping today and discovered the store was almost out of toilet paper. I can understand a shortage of gloves, masks, hand cleaners and disinfectants, but I don’t understand the shortage of toilet paper. Are people wiping their a** more to help prevent coronavirus?

I would like to thank the woman who helped me get my groceries loaded on this cold, windy evening. Sometimes people can be so sweet and helpful it just restores your faith in humanity. Thank you, thank you for taking your extra time to help me. I really appreciate it.

“Don’t forget to spring forward.” “Don’t forget to fall back.” The two most annoying statements I think I hear all year long. It is just a nuisance. When the time changes, I always fumble around trying to figure out how to adjust the clock in my car (and my wife’s), on my microwave, on my oven, only to miss one I won’t find for a couple days. Last time change, my wife didn’t even change her...

Your paper has been photographing Officer Andrew Cooper for something like 20 years, but the minute he is charged with killing someone while drunk driving, his mugshot is unavailable? Sikeston DPS has been draconian in their prosecution of drunk drivers who don’t wear a badge, while turning a blind eye to officers doing the same things. The implication seems to be that only DPS officers are...

What’s wrong with gas stations in Sikeston? This last weekend, Feb. 22, we bought gas in Dexter for $2.05 and Sunday we saw gas in Matthews for $2.09. Sikeston stations are all $2.29. It is continually like this. We all should show them we don’t have to buy in Sikeston. I won’t buy here anymore no matter what the price. If you agree with me, call Speakout and let the Sikeston stations know how we...

I’m certain most of the community is aware of the fatality accident that occurred on Saturday, Feb. 29. For the people involved, I have little doubt that this day will ever be forgotten. As I stated in the news release, we requested Missouri State Highway Patrol to investigate that incident and I do not intend to talk about the details of the accident here. We will wait for the official...

In the last week I’ve had conversations with several people about the coronavirus with differing opinions. Some don’t want to leave the house because they’re afraid they will contract the virus and possibly die while others weren’t worried at all to one who just laughed and said it was “fake news” brought on by the Democrats to get Trump out of office...

I really enjoy reading news articles and editorial articles from the St. Joseph News, Associated Press and several others. Featuring a wider variety of viewpoints, providing more information on things going on in our state government, etc., makes the Standard Democrat newspaper more relevant to more people and will most likely increase the number of readers and newspaper subscriptions. So please...

You people who hate socialism so much and love the military need to figure out a way to reorganize the military because it’s pure socialist. So if you don’t like socialism, don’t go into the military. Maybe we start charging you people, make you pay to get into the military since the benefits are so great. And that’s what you really want it for isn’t it? You want to be sent to college. You want...

Missouri’s Republican Governor and Republican-dominated Congress need to stop wasting money and time and direct more badly-needed funds to the Missouri Crime Lab so they can continue processing the backlog of untested rape kits. It’s an important step in fighting violent crime and an important step to make this state a safer place to live. Pass that funding for the Missouri Crime Lab. Get those...

Dear Editor, Man-made climate change is a hoax. First of all, when did science become a consensus of a group of people that are supposed to be scientists? I was always taught that science is true and provable, such as gravity and the life cycle of humans and animals, where humans and animals give off carbon dioxide and breathe oxygen, and plant life gives off oxygen and takes in carbon dioxide...

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For 159 years, since its first edition rolled off the presses in Bloomfield, Missouri in the early days of the Civil War, the Stars and Stripes has been the voice and watchdog for members of the U.S. armed forces. Now the Department of Defense is proposing to completely eliminate federal funding for an organization who’s sole purpose is to serve our fighting men and women...

Have you ever felt scared and helpless? David did many times. In Psalm 18:4-5 he wrote, “The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.” David references a situation he experienced that was so terrifying. ...