Plans to expand Pedro Park have taken a key step forward. The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has determined that the Public Safety Annex has no historic significance. That clears one hurdle for the building’s demolition and the expansion of…
Lance Belville, one of the founders of Saint Paul’s History Theatre, had a knack for writing clever songs, musicals and plays in a decades-long career that ended when he died in his wife’s arms in their Sausalito, California, boathouse in…
DFLers Maria Isa Perez-Hedges and Anna Botz are running for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 65B for the seat that is being vacated by Carlos Mariani, who is not seeking re-election after 16 terms.District 65B includes downtown Saint…
River road to ruinA beautiful new tunnel and path on Mississippi River Boulevard at Hidden Falls is almost complete. While the city spent millions on this project next to the Highland Bridge development, the existing path on river road under…
Without help from the 2022 Minnesota Legislature, Ramsey County officials face the daunting task of providing shelter for homeless people with the county’s own funds—either that or see more people living in outdoor encampments.The County Board on May 24 took…
The Ramsey County Board approved almost $25 million for affordable housing in May, providing financial assistance for 18 new and existing apartment buildings. Many of the buildings are in Saint Paul, including several downtown and in Highland Park and Ramsey…
Maintain protections for rentersAs a longtime Saint Paul resident and voter, I am dismayed that the Minnesota Senate Housing Finance and Policy Committee would pass a measure to ban rent control and rent stabilization measures statewide (MyVillager, April 27). What…
In the midst of the worst drought in many years in these parts, the Minnesota Museum of American Art has opened a major exhibit with more than 50 works illustrating the importance of water in its multitude of forms. “Many…
For decades, the 4.5-mile Canadian Pacific Railway spur between Highland Park and the vicinity of West Seventh Street and Saint Clair Avenue was a lifeline for Ford Motor Company’s Twin Cities Assembly Plant. Auto parts were transported in and new…
Ramsey County is gearing up for its “locally preferred alternative” for the Riverview Transit Corridor—the so-called modern streetcar line between downtown Saint Paul and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. The current plan reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of transit needs in the…
When Saint Paul author Jim Heynen stopped writing about the three Iowa farm boys who populated hundreds of his short stories, it wasn’t so much that he had outgrown the youngsters. It was more that he had written all there…
The proposed Riverview Corridor, a 12-mile mass transit link from downtown Saint Paul to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and the Mall of America, is once again the focus of a public engagement process as it enters its engineering and pre-environmental…
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