UPDATED: Nate Khaliq, Devin Miller and Robin Hickman among 14 looking to...
UPDATE: A 14th application has surfaced from the bowels of someone’s Internet “junk email” folder at City Hall. Add Timothy Doherty to the list of candidates for the interim position on the St. Paul...
View ArticleWhat horse crap!? Midway Stadium to come down after September 2014, manure...
If the crack of the bat at St. Paul’s Midway Stadium gets you salivating for Cracker Jack, just imagine the crack of the bleachers. Actually, it’s probably too soon to tell what will become of the...
View Article12 candidates to be interviewed for Ward 1 position
On Wednesday, June 12, the St. Paul City Council will interview 12 candidates for an interim appointment to the Ward 1 seat being vacated by Melvin Carter III, who is leaving in July to take a state...
View ArticleDespite tough times, McDonough Rec Center isn’t going away
Rumors of the imminent demise of the McDonough Rec Center can go back from whence they came, according to Brad Meyer, a spokesman for the St. Paul Department of Parks and Recreation. “We heard the...
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Bob Dylan to St. Paul City Council: Can I make some noise?
The St. Paul City Council next Wednesday, June 19 will consider a noise variance request from Bob Dylan. Actually, the "Bob Dylan Sound Level Variance" application was submitted by Tom Whaley, an...
View ArticleEpiscopal Homes, Johnson Boatworks get a little environmental help from county
Much has been made about the likely costs of pollution clean-up at the future St. Paul Saints stadium in Lowertown and the current St. Paul Saints stadium on Energy Park Drive, properties that are...
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UPDATED: St. Paul homeowners hit by storm can ask city for help with tree...
St. Paul residents no longer have to call the St. Paul Forestry Hotline to get tree debris downed by the recent storms hauled away. They do, however, need to have those fallen branches carted to the...
View ArticleEd Davis vs. the Ramsey County Board’s pay hike. Guess who is winning?
Ed Davis figures he’s about 20,000 – 25,000 signatures short of a slam dunk. On Change.org, Davis is circulating an online petition to get the county commissioners to roll back a 1 percent salary...
View ArticleDeveloper at Grand Ave. and Finn St. to city: I’ll replace perennials with sod
UPDATE: New hearing date is Aug. 7, so scratch July 17 off your meeting list… —— Perennials, ornamental grasses, decorative rock beds and artificial turf? Pshaw! Let the people of Grand Avenue have...
View ArticleHow safe are St. Paul swimming pools? Ask the intern…
How safe are the swimming pools in St. Paul? They’re probably safe enough, but the Minnesota Department of Health is still plenty annoyed that the St. Paul Department of Safety and Inspections (DSI)...
View ArticleAs takeover commences, Dept. of Agriculture says its big inspections backlog...
The Minnesota Department of Health and Department of Agriculture are scheduled to assume inspections today, Tuesday, July 9, of restaurants, grocers, pools, hotels and other St. Paul businesses, a...
View ArticleDFL will pick its preference for Ward 1 council seat on July 27
Retired firefighter, property manager and former St. Paul NAACP president Nick Khaliq was sworn in Wednesday as the interim St. Paul City Council member representing Frogtown, Summit-University and...
View ArticleMet Council to Rybak and Coleman: Talk to us, don’t compete with us, on...
Judging by the unanimous vote of support from the city council last month, Minneapolis officials are excited about a possible new $200 million streetcar line that would run from Lake Street and...
View ArticleResidents pan future Metro State parking ramp in Dayton’s Bluff, construction...
Metro State University is still pretty gung-ho about building a new parking ramp off East Seventh Street by Bates Avenue. Neighboring residents, on the other hand, are objecting in increasingly unhappy...
View ArticleArjo Adams has built a park. St. Paul wants it torn down.
In St. Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood, Ronald J. “Arjo” Adams has built a public park on public land, without the blessing of public policymakers. After 10 years of sculpting and weeding, the North...
View ArticleVikings stadium critic turns an unflattering eye to the St. Paul Saints deal
Hamline-Midway resident Tom Goldstein, an attorney, affordable housing advocate and frequent State House lobbyist, has been no fan of public financing packages for privately-managed sports arenas. Over...
View ArticleSt. Paul’s “Magner vs. Gallagher” lawsuit fails to derail Obama Labor...
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved Thomas Perez as U.S. Labor Secretary, despite allegations from Republican lawmakers that the Obama appointee brokered a deal with St. Paul that convinced the city...
View ArticleWard 1 DFL endorsing convention on Saturday — the line-up so far
Hear that noise, like egg shells breaking? It’s the mad scramble among political candidates in St. Paul’s Frogtown and Summit-University neighborhoods to assemble delegates for the special DFL...
View ArticleProfit-sharing with St. Paul Saints could give city 5 to 10 pct of event...
The St. Paul City Council on Wednesday approved a $9 million increase to the construction budget of what had been a $54 million Lowertown ballpark, but not without asking some tough questions of the...
View ArticleSharon Anderson, Chris Coleman file for mayor; Holden at the Turf Club; Devin...
Election season has officially begun. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman — who won re-election in 2009 with 69 percent of the vote — filed to run for a third term in office on Tuesday morning, setting him in...
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