St. Paul Mayor Coleman's State of the City address
State of the City Address As prepared for delivery April 16, 2015 Thank you Council President Stark for that kind introduction. It’s great to see you in your new role as president of the council. I’d...
View ArticleDave Brooks wants the Minnesota Wild to practice on top of the Alliance Bank...
Downtown St. Paul building owner Dave Brooks had hoped to install a professional practice rink for the Minnesota Wild on top of the Alliance Bank Center parking ramp on Cedar Street. That's probably...
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A tax on non-metered downtown parking to fund bike and pedestrian...
The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are asking lawmakers to put a new tool in their toolbox, so to speak: a parking surcharge that could eventually fund downtown amenities like pedestrian walkways...
View ArticleGoodbye, Hamline University President Linda Hanson. The student paper pulls...
The Hamline Oracle -- student-led since 1888! -- has said its goodbyes to university President Linda Hanson, who has overseen the state's oldest university since July 2005. As goodbyes go, this one...
View ArticleCall it tasteless, but Adolph Hitler has weighed in on the St. Paul Bicycle...
Jokes about Adolph Hitler tend to fall flat around these parts, even parodies. Heck, the Scoop didn't much care for "The Producers," and everybody loves The Producers. But whatever devilish cycling...
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St. Paul Chamber backs city council candidates Noecker, Brendmoen, Bostrom,...
With the Nov. 3 election five months away, the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce’s Political Action Committee has endorsed five candidates for St. Paul City Council, most of them incumbents, as well as...
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Palace Rec wins out, but funding for Frogtown's Scheffer Rec and 3rd Street...
The Palace Rec Center and Pierce Butler East Extension projects are poised to get a shot in the arm, as is a new St. Paul Police training facility and gun range. The news is mixed for a proposed...
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A Major League Soccer stadium at Snelling and University? The Wild practicing...
A Major League Soccer stadium at Snelling, University and Pascal? A professional hockey practice facility at Macy’s in downtown St. Paul? Rule neither out, dear Scoop reader. On Wednesday, Zygi Wilf,...
View ArticleRamsey County: New twist in Cleveland Avenue bike lane saga could accommodate...
One of the big reasons St. Paul was pushing to add bike lanes to Cleveland Avenue this summer could be taken off the table. Following a vote by the St. Paul City Council to delay a portion of the...
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Goodbye Billy Collins, Christine Podas-Larson, Polly Talen, Carleen Rhodes,...
Remember back some 15 years ago when Nsync first sang “Bye Bye Bye”? No? Then you might recall Sam Cooke crooning “A Change is Gonna Come” back in 1963. How about Boyz II Men with “It’s So Hard to Say...
View ArticleSt. Paul Mayor Coleman met with MN United owner to talk pro-soccer
Could a professional soccer stadium land in St. Paul instead of Minneapolis? Never say never, dear Scoop reader. Back in May, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Deputy Mayor Kristin Beckmann met with...
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2700 University -- a touch of Uptown MPLS in St. Paul?
Once upon a time, the owners of the vacant grass lot across the street from KSTP News studios in St. Paul figured they could build a five-story office building and fill at least half of it with...
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St. Paul landlords, take note: Supreme Court upholds Fair Housing law's...
Once upon a time, a group of landlords sued the city of St. Paul, arguing that city housing inspections had overreached and forced them -- and thus their low-income, predominantly minority tenants --...
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Kathy Lantry, Public Works Director, may text snow alerts in another language
Kathy Lantry, Public Works Director, may text snow alerts in another language to non-English speaking residents. It wasn't entirely her idea -- she credits City Council Member Chris Tolbert with the...
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The odd saga of 393 Bates Avenue: Some say save it
The odd saga of 393 Bates Ave. in Dayton's Bluff has drawn plenty of commentary, some of it equally odd. The one-story adobe-style home has its own spokesman, a former tax preparer who tangled with the...
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St. Paul's seniors to Comcast: Where's the beefy discount?
For 15 years or more, Comcast's franchise agreements with the city of St. Paul have guaranteed seniors of any income, the disabled of any income and low-income residents on public assistance a 10...
View ArticleThe inside scoop on MLS Soccer in St. Paul, based on 200 pages of internal...
In St. Paul, professional soccer stadium renderings have been floating around City Hall for nearly two years, with a wide variety of sites entering discussion, at least in passing, and the owner of the...
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Have rents gone up along the Green Line? The Central Corridor Funders...
Are developers building along the Metropolitan Council's $957 million Green Line light rail corridor? Has gentrification displaced the locals? Are rents rising? How much affordable housing is coming...
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From Bill Hosko to Lee Helgen to Deputy Mayor Beckmann, St. Paul City Council...
Soccer stadiums, bike lanes, tax increment financing districts, raw milk sales... The St. Paul City Council races will dig up plenty of serious, nail-biting issues in the lead-up to the Nov. 3...
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An exit interview with an ex-candidate who plans to stick around
Samakab Hussein threw in the towel on the Ward 1 city council race this week, but he hasn't quit advocating for the large East African community in Frogtown and Summit-University. Hussein, a small...
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