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Two bike boulevards $900,000 over budget, need money from Palace Rec and...
From roads to rec centers, it’s tough work figuring out which infrastructure projects should be put ahead of others. This story in the Pioneer Press chronicles the fickle fate of the proposed Lexington...
View ArticleFirefighters offer to whittle away residential inspections backlog....
When it comes to inspecting residential rental property in St. Paul and making sure it's safe and habitable, the city's Department of Safety and Inspections (DSI) is facing a major backlog. The numbers...
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Hamline U to meet with residents on housing demolition
Hamline-Midway residents are pressing forward with efforts to convince Hamline University not to tear down some of the oldest housing stock in the neighborhood for at least a year. That would give the...
View ArticleLowertown bus stop imbroglio by River Park Lofts nearing a happy resolution
Never underestimate the power of complaint. Although several steps remain, it looks like Lowertown residents who have objected to the prospect of waking up to buses outside their window have won a...
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How can the light rail always get the green light? Slow it down (sometimes)
Could slowing down the Green Line speed it up? Nick Musachio thinks he’s found a novel solution to the Green Line’s tardiness problem, though getting the powers that be to give his patented "Always...
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Railvolution coming to Twin Cities Sept. 21 - Sept. 24
Dan Bartholomay, CEO of Minneapolis-based Railvolution, is gearing up for his organization's national conference on Sept. 21 - Sept. 24 in the Twin Cities. He'll have folks like Dr. Beverly Scott, the...
View ArticleCouncil Member Amy Brendmoen on Black Bear Crossings settlement
St. Paul City Council Member Amy Brendmoen has been out of the country on city business -- a grant-funded trip to Copenhagen, Denmark -- and wasn't in City Hall for Wednesday's vote on an $800,000...
View ArticleDominium plans senior housing on East 7th by spring 2016
Dominium, a national developer of affordable housing, plans to build 113 units of affordable senior housing along East Seventh Street, next to a future Mississippi Market grocery co-op. With...
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Marv Goldklang on the $63 million St. Paul ballpark that will house his team,...
From the cement bleachers of St. Paul's downtown regional ballpark, Marv Goldklang stared out across the future home of the St. Paul Saints this week and endorsed the view. "It has much more of an open...
View ArticleCapitolRiver Council chair to Twin Cities Public Television: Save the tot lot...
There's a large, river-like mural on an outer wall that forms a boundary to the open-air tot lot by 4th and Sibley Street. It faces the Union Depot, and it's been there for the better part of 20 years....
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Reduce University Avenue to one traffic lane in each direction, bring back...
Chris Ferguson holds a master's degree in environmental engineering, an undergraduate degree in civil engineering, an MBA in finance and a law degree, and he's focusing his interdisciplinary talents on...
View ArticleIsland Station came down. What will come up?
City staff members are hosting preliminary meetings with developer Jim LaValle about his vision for Island Station, the former coal plant property along the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul....
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Historic Hamline Village wants same respect Hamline University gives...
A community mediation process between Hamline University and neighborhood activists has yet to get off the ground, but some residents are already calling foul on the proposed format, on public...
View ArticleWabasha Street business group: Give us a leg of the downtown bike loop, not...
Tony Bol has seen pockets of improvement in downtown St. Paul, “but not on Wabasha.” Once a central business corridor, Wabasha Street's suffering in the modern era is near-legendary. A Macy's...
View ArticleSt. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman invited you to the Big Gay Race for lawmakers in...
The Twin Cities and specific Minneapolis neighborhoods such as Loring Park and Uptown have been named, time and again, among the most gay-friendly communities in the Midwest, if not the country. How...
View ArticleCity Council Member Dan Bostrom plans to vote "no, no and no" on mayor's...
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman's plans to increase the property tax levy by 2.4 percent next year face opposition from a city council member who appears to be increasingly comfortable as the sole "no"...
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It's been 5 years. Will the Pedro family reclaim Pedro Park land? (Spoiler: No.)
Here's the question du jour: Will the Pedro family soon reclaim the land that it donated to the city five years ago at 10th and Robert Streets, or does the "urban flower field" that sits there today at...
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St. Paul bike plan draws neighborhood critics, and a very watchful artist
A downtown neighborhood group, the CapitolRiver Council, convened a meeting Tuesday on St. Paul's proposed bicycle plan, a sweeping document that proposes major changes to the city's bicycle...
View ArticleSenate District 65 DFL Chair to KSTP: I'll ban you for #Pointergate!
UPDATE: (DEC. 17) The DFL SCC will review the proposed resolution to rescind KSTP's media credentials at its next meeting on Feb. 7. Party Affairs Director David Weinlick said the resolution was placed...
View ArticleJane Prince, Louis Garcia, Cara Martner running for City Council too
November 2015 will be a busy time for St. Paul's political movers and shakers, considering that all seven city council seats will be on the ballot. Longstanding council members Dave Thune and Kathy...
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