Mom never liked toys. Despite a house full of children, our home was never cluttered with toys. No race cars or Tonka trucks splayed across the family room floor. No Barbie dolls or doll accessories lost in sofas. No board…
Like the Twin Cities, Seattle has pursued a regional light-rail-transit solution to its pressing urban mobility challenges. Similar to our Blue Line and proposed Riverview Corridor line, Seattle’s 14-mile Central Link connects downtown Seattle with SeaTac International Airport after passing…
For almost 70 years, this publication has been printed and delivered to our readers free of any subscription price. Until two years ago when we initiated a voluntary membership drive, virtually the entire cost of bringing neighborhood news to you…
I have spent the majority of my 70 years here in Saint Paul, beginning at the long-since vanished Miller Hospital. I have watched the city grow and shrink over the decades, fighting against forces beyond its control, largely driven by…
Talking to renters in my daily work, which often involves advocating for tenants in unsafe and unhealthy apartment buildings, I was initially surprised to hear again and again that the threat of rent increases is a bigger concern than poorly…
In the 20th century, we made major public investments in the Twin Cities to transform the Mississippi River for commercial and industrial purposes. However, some of that old infrastructure is no longer useful, presenting an opportunity to re-imagine our relationship…
Our continued expansion of news coverage in print and on the web will ultimately depend on your support.Optimism may seem out of place in the midst of a pandemic, but hey, it’s 2022 and the new year brings a new…
When we were young, I marveled at my older brother Paul. He was so self-confident, so passionate. Like Paul, I felt strongly about my convictions but I was shyer and more hesitant to share them with the world. From an…
Saint Paul has allowed its property tax base to gradually erode over the years. The tax base is and always has been what pays for public safety, schools, libraries, parks and recreation, streets and now affordable housing in the city.…
The proposed merger of Calgary-based Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) and Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) will combine CP Rail’s Prairie Province and Upper Midwest routes with KCS’s route to Texas, Louisiana and Mexico. With no overlapping tracks and ongoing…
A thousand years ago, pagan people in what is now Ireland would build bonfires, don masks and attempt to communicate with the dead on the evening of October 31. It was Samhain (pronounced SOW-in), when it was believed that the…
We are less than a month away from Saint Paul voters deciding if the city will be burdened with the toughest rent control law in the country. The ordinance, initiated by Housing Equity Now Saint Paul (HENS), is well-intentioned, as…
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