Editorial

Tired of the robots I wish you could get a hold of a person when you called them some place. You just talk to a robot and they just push a button, push a button, push a button and then when they do give you to a human they don’t know anything anyway. You might as well be talking to a robot. It gets so frustrating. Everybody is fussing about it. What happened to when you called something you get a...

Let me propose a new course of education for tomorrow’s leaders. The course would be labeled Common Sense 101. And it should be required of all students. Here’s what triggered my imagination. A Colorado town this week unanimously approved a new city ordinance that bans lying or sleeping on city sidewalks...

Sikeston downtown is just fine I just read “Time to Upgrade” and it says it is time to upgrade Sikeston. I totally agree, which committees have you volunteered to serve on? And when have you been to a city council meeting? Downtown has gotten lots of improvements. ...

Help needed at Wendell Apartments My name is Shirley from Wendell Apartments and I’d like to know if anyone out there has wheelchairs or walkers or whatever to give to Wendell Apartments. We need them here for the senior citizens. Some of them need them and don’t have the money to buy them. There is people here that need wheelchairs to get in and we just ain’t got any and it’s just making people...

It’s far from a tidal wave, but Democrats are reluctantly arriving at the conclusion that Trump bashing is not working. Perhaps Democrats are poll testing their anti-Trump messaging and recognizing that the constant barrage of criticism is wearing thin with the American public...

Why no obituaries? I live in New Madrid. I would like to know why our Standard Democrat newspaper does not have any obituaries in it. I see them in the Sikeston Standard Democrat but I don’t see them in the New Madrid. Can you tell me why? Thank you...

Mother’s Day this year is bittersweet. For a number of years, I have used this special day to pay tribute and give recognition to the role of motherhood and the significant importance these women play in the development of future generations. Two things have changed this year...

Pay for your own statue Hello, I’m reading the Wednesday Southeast Missourian where Miss Denise Lincoln in Cape wants a statue erected in Cape of a former slave Union soldier in Cape Girardeau. That’s a wonderful idea. But let Miss Lincoln pay for it out of her money, but not out of the tax payer money...

Need burnin’ barrel I am in need of a burnin’ barrel and I’d appreciate if you’d put your number in the Speakout if you have a burnin’ barrel for sale of if you know anyone who does have a burnin’ barrel for sale. I appreciate it and thank you for letting me speak out...

I’ve never been a big fan of polling, specifically political polling. Today, polling has become big business. Experts offer all sorts of mathematical logic and reasoning to justify their polling techniques. And when their poll results are woefully off-base, they offer equally compelling logic to explain the outcome...

KFVS-12 is just a mess Yes, I would like to speak out about the Channel 12 TV. All of that commercial mess, and all of that talk show mess. I just turn my TV on to get news, weather, and preaching and all I can get is all of this talk show mess. It is nothing but a mess this talk show stuff. And I don’t like this new weather lady that’s on. She just don’t have it for the weather. Thank you for...

I’ve tried to give Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens the benefit of the doubt on the two legal issues he is facing. And I still profess that he is innocent until proven guilty. On that, I believe we can all agree. But courtrooms, judges and attorneys aside, the damage to our state’s reputation and the constant media turmoil have combined to doom Greitens’ political future in Missouri...

What’s going on in Miner? I’m sitting here reading the paper Friday, April 6, and I see Miner has some figures in here so small you can’t even read them again. I guess it is something about the revenues or the budget or whatever it is I can’t make it out what it is. ...

It’s time to upgrade Sikeston. I have visited Ste. Genevieve, Poplar Bluff, Cape and the surrounding towns in this area and noticed that every town is upgrading. Sikeston has a long way to go. The neighborhoods are becoming an eyesore. ...

The recent articles in the Southeast Missourian regarding the Angela Mischelle Lawless homicide contain facts that are both inaccurate and detrimental to the investigation of this case. The investigation is ongoing and includes additional information outside of the evidence available in 2016. ...

There’s an old story that goes like this. A college professor walks into his lecture class, takes out a tape recorder, pushes the button to start the recorded lesson for the day and walks out of the lecture hall. He returns an hour later to see an empty room with a hundred student tape recorders all recording his lecture...

I’d like to speak out about Josh Hawley. He put in the paper that Cory Hutcheson committed homicide by the boy getting killed in jail before he ever had the doctors check out the boys records to see if he died from overdose on drugs with the disease he had. ...

Anyone have burn barrel? I would like to ask if there is anyone out there who has a burning barrel for sale. If you would please put your phone number in the paper so I call you. I am in need of a burning barrel. Thank you. Take down plate number This in regards to an article in Speakout on April 11 about police officers speeding through the new DAEOC Head Start. ...

It should come as no surprise that the Republican national leadership has decided to focus on Hillary Clinton as the face of the Democratic party in the run-up to the all-important midterm elections. It just makes sense. Hillary Clinton is a polarizing figure held in very low esteem by the GOP as well as some within her own party...

Just wondering Just wondering if anyone else has complaints about the Early Headstart Center on Arthur. I have two nieces that go there, and they have them outside when it’s like 50 degrees. All the kids’ noses are running and they get sick quite a bit from having a cold. ...

As silly as it sounds — given the current cool weather — summer is indeed right around the corner. School will soon end and youngsters of all ages will have a carefree time with no tests, homework, etc. But that raises the age-old question — What do we do this summer?...

My kids always look forward to their birthday every year, I’m sure your kids are or were the same way. Mine don’t all quite yet understand months and years, so we go through the order of who’s birthday is next, and then after that, and after that, until we finally get to them. As we get older, we don’t put as much emphasis on our birthday anymore, sometimes even dread one more year. But I have a...

When will school be built? When is the Sikeston school system going to start building the new school that we passed the bond issue for a year ago? Just curious about our tax payer dollars. Thank you. According to the construction timeline under the “Wing Elementary Updates” link via the Sikeston R-6 School District website, the district is currently in the building bid phase, which is expected to...

We talk often about the polarization in this country, but increasingly, it’s not polarization, it’s downright hatred. It’s beyond dispute that we have reached a cultural and political crossroad where civil discourse and compromise have been abandoned. The left’s outright hatred for conservative views is an ever-present item on the liberal menu, so much so that our vision for America is divided...

Regardless of the legal outcome, Eric Greitens is political toast. His reputation is forever stained and even though he could weather the legal storm, his political future as Governor of Missouri is highly in doubt.