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…
Apartment buildings may bear the brunt of property tax increases in 2021 By Jane McClure Some Saint Paul homeowners are likely to get a break in 2021 from the seemingly perennial large property tax increases. Although the Saint Paul Public…
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