Speak Out

Prom season 2021 is in the books and Semo Prom Mothers of Cape Presbyterian Churches would like to announce that we dressed 80 teens from Southeast Missouri. Girls came from 21 school districts in Illinois and Missouri. We had teens come from much farther south than ever before. ...

The pipeline shut down on the east coast by Russian hackers is a wakeup call for the nation. The importance of pipelines in this country was magnified and the response of the Biden administration was slow. They have no plan to punish these criminals. ...

How can one person screw up everything in this country in less than six months? Before Biden, gas prices were lower and stable, the Middle East was stable and Israel had treaties with several Muslim countries. The southern border was secure, North Korea stopped threatening the world with a nuclear bomb, China and Russia respected military strength. ...

The Cardinals are off to a strong start. It's great to see Wainwright and Molina still performing so well along with the new faces. The April jobs report came out at 266,000 jobs, which is 734,000 below expectations and 650,000 below March. Only the Kool-Aid drinkers are surprised about this. ...

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the front page of the paper. Cape Girardeau road conditions are 97% good or fair? Cape roads are the worst than any town I go to. There are holes everywhere, not dips, but holes. It rattles my cars to death. They are in shambles. Please fix them and quit worrying about COVID, COVID, COVID and a new pool...

We have to hope that enough people take the vaccine to end the pandemic. It is 75% or bust. Want to thank the street department for filling the three pot holes on our dead end street. Wonderful not having to try to drive around them. My wife and I have traveled in all of the lower 48 states here in the U.S. ...

How about using the 10 Commandments as a way to live our lives, save lives, and rid the country of 99.9999% of the problems we are now witnessing on an hourly basis!!!???? End of discussion! ...

The Medicaid Expansion bill, which Missouri voters passed by 53.25% to 46.75%, is just the latest in a series of votes that the state legislators have decided to overturn. For example, they managed to continue their power by calling for a new revised vote which overturned the people's decision to have a demographer scientifically redraw district lines and do away with gerrymandering. ...

Thank you Scott Meyer for your twelve years of service to Cape Girardeau. Wish you a comfortable and quiet retirement. I am in my 70s and have been a St. Louis Cardinals fan ever since I knew what was going on. But because of MLB's silly decision to move the All-Star Game because of the Georgia legislature's vote to tighten up the state's voting integrity, I am through with them unless I find out that the Cardinals' owners opposed that decision. ...

In the 1950s smallpox, one of the deadliest virus in human history was eradicated. How was this done? By a vaccine. Now, no excuses. Get out there and get your COVID-19 shots, if there were as many anti-vaxxers back then as there are right now, people would still be dying from smallpox...

Jason Smith: Our country is struggling with multitudinous problems which our current administration is addressing. You suggest that President Biden cannot attend to border issues if he is responding to the proliferation of guns in American and the related killings. ...

So now our State Legislators think the voters were duped, scammed and gaslighted by "liberal" groups to vote for Medicaid expansion. Are you kidding? We voted for it because we wanted it! This seems to be the new strategy of Republicans; when you lose a free and fair election just change the rules. Don't mess with Medicaid expansion, we need it!...

Speak Out When a comprehensive history of social media is written, Speak Out will be prominently remembered as a key, originally low-tech precursor to Twitter and an inspiration to those originally thought not to be aware of it such as Jobs, Zuckerberg and Trump...

No city should accept the 2021 MLB All-Star Game. This would take politics out of sports. Denver, in doing so, does an injustice to the sport of baseball and sports in general. No city should accept the 2021 MLB All-Star Game. This would take politics out of sports. Denver, in doing so, does an injustice to the sport of baseball and sports in general. ...

The state of Georgia and the city of Atlanta should sue MLB for breach of contract for breaking an agreement to play the MLB all star game in Atlanta. It has been said the city will lose at least $100 million in revenue due to this decision. MLB should have to compensate the state and city for this loss. It is time to take politics out of sports...

I'm proud the Missouri House of Representatives voted unanimously to formally condemn the Dred Scott decision recently. I was watching CNN's COVID War special and found it to be very informative. It is sad to say, but America failed in its handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Future generations of Americans will look back at this time in shame that most of the Americans who died should never had died...

Kind of puzzling. Our national guard troops are sleeping on the floor in Washington D.C.. and our homeless veterans are sleeping on the streets in major cities, but the illegal aliens are being housed in hotels along the border in the border states. But then what could you expect from the Biden administration...

What kind of management do these chain stores hire in the SEMO area? When the stockers are yelling cuss words at each other openly, it reflects poorly on the managers and on the communities that they pretend to serve. To the many walkers out there in the wee hours of the morning, picking up trash all along the way, trash bag in hand, every day -- I see you. And I appreciate you. Thank you...

The crisis at the border is getting worse by the hour. It's been reported that every illegal immigrant that crosses the border has to pay the cartels as much as $7,000 to $30,000. My question is, if all these people are poor, who is paying? Someone needs to find out and expose them and file charges for human trafficking and possibly more...

How does a show as dumb as "The View" with people like Joy Behar continue to exist? Not sure where the person commenting on gas prices in the Cape area gets their information. From personal knowledge, the only place with lower gas price I have seen east of Columbia and all the way to Hannibal has been Fredericktown. The gas prices are all pretty much the same through the eastern half of the state. And Fredericktown wasn't much lower...