Editorial

I live in East Prairie and I have to tell you, I was so saddened to learn that Jerry and Kathy no longer are paper carriers. They were absolutely the best. And that’s a big best. The world could use more people like those two. Also, I miss Mike Jensen’s editorial. He and I were on the same page, but I’m pleased to know in our local Eagle paper his column is there. I enjoy reading it. God bless...

Yes I just wanted to know how the city council decided to vote on the new proposed changes to the rental ordinances. I noticed some of the biggest complainers were some of the biggest slumlords and they did not like the fact that the inside of their units is going to get inspected. Which is should be because they are making money off these units and they don’t want to spend any money. They just...

I noticed the council got together and ramrodded another rate increase on our water and sewer. I just thought it was a formality because of the old one come in they just thought we could renew it. But no they added more, after just getting done adding more on those same years. And now I noticed they got rid of the public safety director. People are going to get fed up. No wonder Sikeston cannot...

I see the “Red House,” or Green Meadows Retirement home on N. Kingshighway is undergoing some work, hopefully improvements, this August. I have to wonder though if the improvements will truly benefit the residents of the home and the surrounding neighborhood. Is the work just to bring the badly tattered building up to code? Watching over the past few months, I hope that the residents see a change...

There is nothing worse than being told that a friend or relative has committed suicide. I have experienced this more than once and it leaves you feeling hollow with many different questions. Most people have had a friend or family member or acquaintance they have lost to suicide. According to the Center for Disease Control, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in 2016, with 45,000 taking...

Jesus said they’ll hate me before they hate you. I can’t believe the hatred the people has for this president. He’s doing everything he can do to keep us safe and keep the bad people out of our country. He’s protecting religious freedom like no other president has done. If you defend this president in any way you’re called a racist. This mess has got to stop. Someone is going to get hurt bad or...

I find it sad that housing allows a person to remain living in their apartments when all they do all day is get drunk and yell at whoever is in their apartment. This is a daily thing in an apartment on the corner of Fletcher and Cleveland. You can hear the guy yelling at kids who live with him. Come on, parenting is not about how loud you can get. It’s about how soft spoken you can be and still...

The people who have their loved ones in a nursing home, I don’t really care what nursing home it is, they need to just drop in every once in a while, unexpectedly and they’ll see how most of them are treated. They’re not really took care of. They are too busy texting and yapping and stuff. They need to check on their loved ones a whole lot and unexpectedly. Don’t go the same time, all the time,...

There have been a few life-changing moments I have encountered in my lifetime. The first time I worked on a computer, the first time I watched golf on a high-definition television and the first time I tasted coffee ice cream all changed my life forever. I experienced another just this week when I used grocery pickup for the first time...

Dear Mr. Editor, you wouldn’t print a word in opposition to the idea of rodeos and for the possibility of developing a better attitude toward animals in our young people. Free speech with you extends about as far as your pocketbook or the capitalist business bullies tell you you can go, doesn’t it? You don’t dare cross the business community. You don’t dare. Cowards all.

After this latest two deadly shootings there still is no such thing gun control. People control guns. Not the other way around. Thank you.

When fans filed into Sikeston Public Schools Stadium last Friday night, they were expecting to see four high school football teams compete in a jamboree in preparation for the upcoming season. I’m sure very few, if anyone, in attendance feared for their life while attending the jamboree, instead laughing with family and friends and eyeing the field while supporting their teams...

Hello Miner, Missouri. This is in particular for Miner, Missouri. I’m a councilman here in Miner, Missouri. There was an ordinance just passed on grass clippings out in the street. And I’ve had some flack on it. I wasn’t the one who brought up the whole thing. Abide by the law. It’s an ordinance. On Harrison and Ross or what have, I don’t care where it is. Just blow it back into your own yard....

Good afternoon, Southeast Missouri, Sikeston, Miner. Look what we got on the front page on the day Aug. 2 of the 2019 paper. Juden named in auditor’s report. I wonder if him and the ex-police chief in Miner went to the same school? Ain’t that a coincidence how things come full circle? Wow. And our leadership is supposed to be an example. So I guess we’re gonna have to set an example. Have a great...

Hello Southeast Missouri, Hello Miner, Missouri. We’ve got a serious issue here going on and it’s not good. This so-called marijuana thing is just another back that the federal government and the state government are trying to make a dollar because they aren’t smart enough to know how to make a revenue. But they want to go the illegal way basically because of the drugs. Drugs are drugs. I don’t...

I have a message for President Trump. Even though you tell the truth about a person and a city, you still get called a racist and a bigot. I’m sorry, there’s nothing you can do to change Democrats.

Trump guaranteed us that Mexico was going to pay for the wall. Tariffs have risen from 21 to 28 percent in the past three years and just like that Mexico paid for the wall.

I don’t understand these people that are half dead until somebody comes around going somewhere. They’re just hurtin’ so bad they can’t move or something but if somebody comes around going somewhere, boy, they’re in the car. I don’t care if they’re going five miles or a 1,000, they can go. I just don’t understand that. If you’re sick, you’re sick. You don’t feel like getting out or anything. You...

Driving to work the other day I was traveling through a school zone. With the speed limit at 20 miles per hour, I was probably not completely abiding by the speed limit. But what shocked me was the little old lady who blew around me like I was standing still...

If Mr. Trump loves his country, how come he dodged the draft? He doesn’t love his country. He talks about the poor women not loving their country. He’s a big liar. He needs to be impeached. I don’t know why they don’t ask the lot of the people what they think about him instead of Miss Pelosi. Maybe they need to get rid of her. Get rid of both of them.

To the editor, I live on Irene St. in East Prairie, Mo. I have a neighbor that is a junk man/recycler. For those that don’t know what this consists of, let me tell you… There are one dozen recycle bins (5’x5’x5’) in this man’s back yard. They are full. Over the top. Each bin has different metal. But most of them have aluminum cans. These cans have juices in them that attract cockroaches...

Legalizing marijuana is stupid I think it is so stupid for the government to pay people smokin’ legal marijuana standing out on the street. I don’t see any difference in taking opioids and stuff like that a doctor prescribes then getting high on marijuana so people can make money. That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. People will do anything for money. Thank you...

Ignorant people are easily led. You tell them something and they have no reason to not accept it. That’s why the plantation class didn’t want slaves to learn to read. And our schools are fulfilling the same function with the general public now. Is this the society you want your descendants to live in Mr. Editor?

Dear Editor: The Sikeston High School class of 1969 is planning its 50-year class reunion on Sept. 27-28. Event organizers are looking for the following classmates: Mary Applewhite, Dorothy Bonds, Marlene Boshell Woodward, Roy Lee Bowden, Tina Briggs, Terry Coffey, Dean Cole, Deborah Cox Allen, Dorothy Davis, Sharon Davis Mulcahy, Kay Demaris, Frances Denning, Donna Dixon Jordan, Dickie Deroush,...

Missouri should re-evaluate system requiring current safety inspection for license plate renewals. It is a system incentivizing misdeeds and creating vulnerable consumers. Beginning Aug. 28, inspections will only be required on vehicles over 10 years old or with 150,000 miles on their odometers.