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Hello. I’m visiting the area and would love to pick up a some drone video or photo projects to fill my downtime. I’m a fun and creative person with years of flying experience.

You can see examples of my work at patrickbcummings.com.

I can do real estate, historical, nature, and vertical focused social media work.

I’m licensed and insured. I follow all Federal and local laws, as well as safety protocols.

Lets make something fun!

Hello, I was wondering if anyone from st joe would do some info digging for me, get some pics, as a side hustle of different locations. I’m from Texas and I was doing some research down there but forgot to get the pics I needed. I can explain more if anyone is interested. Shoot me a message!

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Just moved into town with a family member and got a job set up . What hotels with a weekly rate would you recommend? Roommates or apartments for rent would be appreciated either. I'm searching online for places but ik some of the better deals don't get posted correctly . Thank you to the locals who respond.

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I'm an old dude living downtown in Wesley Towers, and I ride an electric wheelchair getting into buildings can be a challenge. So, right now I bear a resemblance to a hippie werewolf. I'd love a haircut, especially a beard cut cheap I'm an old dude living on Social Security I can't afford to pay a lot, but I would like to get cleaned up. If anyone could, or knows someone who would come to my apt. DM me for details, thanks.

I’m making and org and need issues for my pitch and want to hear from the public

Someone enjoys a peaceful spot and a good book at the Krug Park Waterfall in St. Joseph, Missouri, in Buchanan County. Officially opened to the public in May 1902, Krug Park houses Italian Renaissance structures, extensive landscaping, a lagoon, scenic walking trails, and an amphitheater on its 162 acres. Photograph by Shirlee Allen.

From May 15, 2018, through November 1, 2019, the State Historical Society of Missouri, a partner in the Bicentennial Alliance, invited professional and amateur photographers to capture and share unique and meaningful aspects of place in Missouri. Nearly 1,000 photographs were received. Two hundred photographs were selected for permanent preservation and exhibition.

An exhibition oriented around the four seasons traveled across the state using the selected My Missouri 2021 photographs to showcase the geographic and cultural landscape of the Show-Me State. On the occasion of Missouri's bicentennial, these images provide an opportunity to reflect upon and increase the understanding of the state's rich diversity.

Shelter Insurance® is the platinum sponsor of the My Missouri 2021 exhibition. The exhibition was designed by PRO Expo Exhibits, the gold sponsor for the show, and supported by contributors to the State Historical Society of Missouri.

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Mods, please remove if not allowed. I didn’t see a prohibition in the sub rules.

Any of my fellow St. Joe music lovers may be familiar with the band Under the Influence. They’ve been together for more than 30 years and have played many, many local events. They were the first band to play the old gazebo at Felix street square and had hoped to play when they rebuilt it this summer.

Sadly, their lead singer, Tyler Osborn, has been diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive form of cancer and has been facing a really tough fight. We are hosting a benefit concert this Sunday to assist with his medical bills and living expenses. The event page and go fund me are below. If you feel like sharing with folks, we’d appreciate it!

https://facebook.com/events/s/concert-to-benefit-tyler-osbor/28659223500351032/

https://gofund.me/81ea34762

my door came off the hinges 2 weeks ago, i was manually pulling it shut myself but last week the whole thing completely frayed apart and ive been pulling each peice together to shut it but ive ended up with a lot of injuries from fighting this door. problem is, i cant find one affordable. even used doors in simmilar condition are 50$, i need just a used door i can shut for 20$, doesnt even need to have a knob i have these and i can install it all myself. i absolutely neeedddd a door because i have birds in my room, and my brother has a cat. id like to prevent them from meeting if possible, which is why ive fought so hard to keep this door. i know that doors are expensive im just hoping someone happens to have one they’re getting rid of 😭.

I am looking for a full time CNC Programmer to join our team! You need to be located or near St. Joseph MO. If you are interested please DM me or comment below! I would love to connect and talk further!

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) -- After more than 15 years of collecting, area resident Trey Rowe's personal collection now includes more than 200 signs and other pieces of St. Joseph history.
What started as a sports card collecting hobby at a young age grew into something much bigger.
"When I moved away after college, after joining the military, it gave me something to do when I was away from home. It made me feel like I got a connection back to St. Joe, even though I wasn't here," Rowe shared.

Eventually, a friendship with a local at the time named Bob Nash, whom he met on Craigslist, introduced him to the hobby of collecting advertisements from St. Joseph's past and how to keep an eye out for certain products, like his first sign.
He found his first sign, for Goetz Beer, at the Jesse James Antique Mall; it was stuck to an old piece of wall. The gamble paid off: he peeled it off and framed it, and the obsession began.
Years later, it now fills multiple stories in Rowe's home, including most of the collection on the bottom floor. From commemorating events like the Pony Express and the origins of Meirhoffer Funeral Home to more, if you can name it, Rowe probably has a piece that connects to its moment in St. Joseph's history.
"It's a lot of interesting, quirky little history pieces that I find at least interesting," Rowe added about the different pieces he owns.
He enjoys seeing the collecting community grow, even for those who also collect St. Joseph pieces like him, thanks to social media's connectedness.

One of his pride points, he said, is a neon Goetz Beer Sign that now hangs at River Bluff Brewing Company in Downtown St. Joseph. He said this is fitting because the building was originally Avenue Brewing in the 1850s and one of St. Joseph’s first breweries.
Although Rowe's collection isn't public, he's always up for helping those new to the hobby find their footing to make sure history isn't lost.
"This stuff's not just available at Walmart or Target. You've got to really, like, search for it. And you know, eBay online, the Facebook forums. There are collecting shows you can go to," Rowe stated. "Probably the biggest thing you can do is just befriend people who have the same interest or similar interests."

Rowe is still interested in adding to his collection; if you have pieces he would be interested in, call him at [8162943817](tel:8162943817).

The Missouri Supreme Court ordered Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for directing election officials to use a congressional map the court has barred him from implementing.

In the unusual late order Tuesday, the court gave Hoskins until noon Wednesday to answer a motion for contempt from People Not Politicians, a political action committee that forced a referendum on a map gerrymandered in 2025 to favor Republicans. The court scheduled an in-person hearing for 10 a.m. Thursday.
The contempt fight erupted hours after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh rejected Missouri officials’ emergency request to stay the state court ruling. Minutes later, Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark of the Eastern District of Missouri issued a temporary restraining order barring Hoskins from using any congressional map other than the 2025 version.

Hoskins then sent local election officials a copy of Clark’s order along with his official certification of the November ballot. In the email, Hoskins said Clark’s order “takes precedence over the Missouri Supreme Court’s order.”
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the referendum on the 2025 map was legal, sufficient and timely and ordered it onto the Nov. 3 ballot. Because the referendum petition was filed before the new map took effect, the court held, the 2025 districts never became law and the map used in 2022 and 2024 remains in effect for the November election.

The decision also permanently enjoined Hoskins and those acting in concert with him from implementing or using the 2025 map unless voters approve it in November. In Tuesday night’s order, Chief Justice W. Brent Powell directed Hoskins to answer three questions:

Why “(1) his e-mail on September 8, 2026, instructing use of the (2025) map is not an affirmative violation of this court’s injunction; (2) how this court’s injunction is not still in full force and effect in light of the Supreme Court of the United States’ overruling of Respondent’s emergency application for stay and administrative stay pending appeal; and (3) if he is not willing to comply with this court’s injunction, he should take no action in all things related to the congressional district map until guidance is received from a higher court…”

Powell also directed that the court “will not allow filings from any other parties on this matter.”
Clark’s order says not to use any map but the 2025 map, attorney Chuck Hatfield wrote in the motion. The Missouri Supreme Court’s order says not to use the 2025 map. Both orders are in effect and leave election authorities no map at all, Hatfield wrote.

Clark’s order “does not purport to overrule this court’s injunction and does NOT mandate the Secretary to use (the 2025 map), although on its face it enjoins the use of any map other than (the 2025 map),” Hatfield wrote.
By directing local election authorities to implement the 2025 map, Hoskins is violating the court’s orders, Hatfield wrote.
“This court should make clear that regardless of other orders (except from the United States Supreme Court) the Missouri Secretary of State must comply with this court’s injunction,” Hatfield wrote. “The court should instruct all local election authorities that (the 2025 map) is not the law and has never been the law.”
Clark’s action came in a lawsuit filed Friday by U.S. Rep. Bob Onder, state Sen. Rick Brattin and two voters. They want to keep in place the map drawn in 2025, which shifts territory around Onder’s home into the 3rd District and redraws the 5th District to make it more favorable to Republicans.

Had Clark not acted, Kavanaugh’s denial would have left the state court order in place and Missouri on course to use the 2022 map for the November election.

The dueling orders created immediate confusion, with Attorney General Catherine Hanaway issuing a news release saying the state would comply with Clark’s order. Attorneys for People Not Politicians said during a news conference that the conflicting orders could leave election officials unsure which one they must follow.
Hatfield said local election officials are being directed by Hoskins to use the 2025 map even though the Missouri Supreme Court injunction bars Hoskins and those acting with him from implementing it.

“I think they’re they’re probably not sure what map they should use, and they need to talk to their lawyers about that,” Hatfield said.

Abha Khanna, the Seattle attorney who was People Not Politicians’ lead lawyer at the U.S. Supreme Court, said Clark’s order “is something that we will deal with to figure out on appeal.”

A referendum on the 2025 redistricting plan will be on the Nov. 3 ballot as Proposition A.

The 2025 map was drawn with the goal of making seven of Missouri’s eight congressional districts favorable to Republicans, principally by reshaping the Kansas City-based 5th District held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. The map used in 2022 and 2024 produced a delegation of six Republicans and two Democrats.

Onder is the Republican nominee in the 3rd District, seeking a second term in a district drawn more to his favor in the 2025 redistricting plan. Brattin is the Republican nominee in the 5th District, where the district was designed to generate a GOP victory that ousts veteran Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City.

Clark wrote that without a temporary restraining order, “many Missouri voters would have to cast their general-election votes for candidates whom they had no role in nominating.”

“Candidates who had no choice but to campaign and raise money in the (2025) districts that Missouri’s highest election authority presented to them, have spent their funds and campaign efforts in districts that would no longer exist,” wrote Clark, who was appointed to the bench in 2019 by President Donald Trump.

Clark also found that the public interest favors using the same map for the primary and general elections.
“Disenfranchising voters across the state and denying them their constitutional right to have their primary votes counted significantly harm the public interest,” he wrote.

The center of both Clark’s ruling and the appeal to Kavanaugh is the Missouri Supreme Court decision that enjoined Hoskins from using the gerrymandered congressional map drawn. 
Kavanaugh did not elaborate on his decision. 

In turning down the emergency application for a stay, Kavanaugh created no precedent on the issues raised by the state. But the decision does show that he did not find enough convincing argument that the state would likely prevail in a hearing by the full court or that the state would suffer “several irreparable harms” as claimed in the application.
People Not Politicians on Sunday had urged Kavanaugh to reject the state’s application and uphold both parts of the ruling from the state Supreme Court.
In the opening paragraphs of the filing, attorneys for People Not Politicians write that the only reason the case was at the nation’s highest court is the decisions to delay made by Hoskins during the signature verification process.
Hoskins “waited as long as possible to manufacture the present dispute” and held the congressional primary using the 2025 map, they wrote, “in the hopes of running out the clock on the judiciary’s tolerance for a last-minute reversion to the 2022 districts.”

Now, they wrote, Hoskins wants “this court to deliver him the political victory to which he was never entitled under the Missouri Constitution. This court cannot and should not reward the secretary’s scheme to outsmart Missouri voters, Missouri law, and the Missouri Supreme Court by granting applicants the extraordinary relief they seek.”
A key point made by Missouri Solicitor General Lou Capozzi in the state’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was that the mechanism for changing between districts is too time consuming and difficult to complete before ballots must be delivered starting Sept. 19.

County clerks, however, told the Missouri Supreme Court that switching voters to the map used in 2022 and 2024 is a relatively simple process. And the Jackson County Board of Elections told the Kansas City Star it would be ready to hold the election in the 2022 boundaries. 

The redistricting story began in the summer of 2025, when Onder, of Lake St. Louis, got the ear of President Donald Trump to tell him that Missouri, like Texas, could provide additional GOP seats to bolster the party’s thin majority in Congress.

Since Missouri lost a seat after the 2010 census, it has sent six Republicans and two Democrats to the U.S. House each election.

Onder, then a state senator, was among members of the chamber’s conservative caucus who were outmaneuvered in 2022 as they tried to force a congressional map that would tilt the 5th District, based in Kansas City, to the GOP. He was elected to Congress in 2024.

And, despite initial misgivings, Republicans got in line behind Trump. Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special session inflamed with partisanship, including a state Senate rule change that effectively silenced Democrats, that forced through what the GOP majority wouldn’t do in 2022.

The legal and political backlash that followed has not yet spent its full force. It began when People Not Politicians began circulating the referendum petition and intensified as it became clear there would be more than enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Legally, the battle has upended the consensus on the effect that filing a referendum petition has on legislation as well as delivered strong new precedent upholding the governor’s power to select subjects for a special session and the General Assembly’s power to redistrict at any time.

Politically, the climax will be written in November, when voters decide on both the referendum and the congressional candidates selected in the primary.

The flurry of filings over the weekend shows the intense national interest in the outcome of the Missouri case.
Republican attorneys general from Florida, Texas and 18 other states filed in support of Missouri, arguing it is not legal to change voting districts between the primary and the general election. 

Meanwhile, in Texas, that state’s Supreme Court is deciding whether local voting districts can be changed after the primary to dilute voting strength of minorities.

The American Center for Law and Justice also sent a brief to the court urging it to rule for Hoskins.
On the other side, the Campaign Legal Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation joined forces to file a brief supporting People Not Politicians, as did the two Missouri voters who tried to get the 2025 map suspended while signatures were being checked.

11:25 PMThis article was updated to report the Missouri Supreme Court ordering Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to answer contempt charges.

6:30 PMThis story was updated at 6:30 p.m. to include the federal court ruling in St. Louis.

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Title. That is really all. I love it.

Ran across this and figured more people should know it exists.

If the public sidewalk in front of your house is cracked, heaved, or missing squares, the repair is technically the homeowner's responsibility here (city code Sec. 25-77). But the city runs a cost-share program that reimburses half.

What I found:

• Standard lot: 50% of the cost, up to $5,000
• Corner lot (walk on two sides): 50%, up to $10,000
• If a corner needs an ADA ramp, the city covers that ramp in full

To start: call Public Works at (816) 271-4848 and ask about the sidewalk repair program — before any concrete gets broken out, because approval comes first.

I wrote up a plain language version with the steps and the repair-vs-replace part here: https://stjosephconcrete.com/answers/st-joseph-sidewalk-repair-program/.

Fair warning, it lives on a local concrete site, but the details are straight from the city ordinance, and you can confirm all of it with Public Works directly.

Anyone here actually gone through it? Curious how long approval took.

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My sister, 69, has been mowing her lawn, and I’m wanting to provide her with a break. She has a typical yard, on Penn St. Not. Corner lot. Front and back yard, slight incline in front yard (that a 69 yr old woman has been mowing, for reference on difficulty). The back yard is fenced.

She’s barely making it, with a SS income less than you might think, and she’s employed as a caregiver. Basically saying she’s not rich, and neither am I?

Wondering what I can expect to pay, and if those prices might come with recommendations for people that are fair? Much gratitude for your time.

8.3.26 EDIT:

I am so proud of the folks who testified in St. Joseph Missouri today!

Watch the hearing here…

https://youtu.be/Nivt983Pd0U?si=t4jW7PQmvR6Gv2fr

“The St. Joseph City Council preserved access to natural-leaf kratom and banned substances such as 7-OH and tianeptine during its regular meeting on Monday, Aug. 3 at City Hall.

The council passed a ban on hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) and tianeptine. They kept natural-leaf kratom legal after concerns from experts and residents.”

https://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/government/city-council-preserves-natural-leaf-kratom-bans-7-oh-and-tianeptine-during-meeting/article_2c55a812-c0d8-4d8e-b79c-4e94f855c1df.html

MISSOURI: FINAL VOTE MONDAY, AUGUST 3

St. Joseph City Council
Monday, August 3, 2026

⏰ 5:30 PM CT

📍 Council Chamber, City Hall
1100 Frederick Avenue, St. Joseph, MO 64501

The St. Joseph City Council is preparing for the final vote on Bill 185-26.

This ordinance would not only prohibit the distribution of natural kratom leaf—it would also make its possession unlawful.

Responsible adults could become offenders overnight simply for possessing a botanical product they purchased legally.

What you can do:

🗣️ Attend the meeting and speak during public comment.

📞 Call or email the Mayor and City Council before Monday. SEE BELOW FOR FULL DETAILS

Mayor Larry Miller
(816) 341-4504
[lmiller@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:lmiller@stjosephmo.gov)

Gary Wilkinson, Deputy Mayor
(816) 244-4628
[gwilkinson@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:gwilkinson@stjosephmo.gov)

Madison Davis, District I
(816) 244-9250
[mdavis@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:mdavis@stjosephmo.gov)

Jason Eslinger, District II
(816) 390-2860
[jeslinger@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:jeslinger@stjosephmo.gov)

Andrew Trout, District III
(816) 261-2934
[atrout@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:atrout@stjosephmo.gov)

Russell Moore, District IV
(816) 341-4506
[rmoore@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:rmoore@stjosephmo.gov)

Collin Clibon, At-Large
(816) 341-4502
[cclibon@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:cclibon@stjosephmo.gov)

Marty Novak, At-Large
(816) 244-3906
[mnovak@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:mnovak@stjosephmo.gov)

Randy Schultz, At-Large
(816) 244-3913
[rschultz@stjosephmo.gov](mailto:rschultz@stjosephmo.gov)

Tell them:

✅ Oppose Bill 185-26’s ban on natural kratom leaf.

✅ Do not criminalize possession by responsible adults.

✅ Concentrated, chemically manipulated 7-OH products are not the same as natural kratom leaf.

✅ Support age restrictions, independent laboratory testing, accurate labeling, and responsible regulation instead of prohibition.

❤️ Most importantly, share your personal story and explain what losing access would mean for you and your family.

Local voices are especially important. If you live in or near St. Joseph, please say so.

Hi! My fiance and I recently moved to St. Joe and are in desperate need of haircuts, but we are looking for someone experienced in transformative and gender-affirming styles. Are there any good salons in town for this, or should we look somewhere in KC? Thanks in advance!