Many homeowners in Saint Paul’s poorer neighborhoods will be seeing steep property tax increases next year due to large increases in the market value of their homes. To ease the tax burden, Mayor Melvin Carter wants to include $600,000 in…
Stretches of Edgcumbe Road, Minnesota Street and Summit, Grand and Pleasant avenues are slated for improvements in the city of Saint Paul’s Five-Year Streets Plan for 2022-26. So are alleys in parts of Summit Hill and traffic control devices at…
Saint Paul residents who generate more garbage will pay more in 2022 under new rates adopted unanimously on November 17 by the Saint Paul City Council. Quarterly fee increases will range anywhere from a few cents to $5.58, depending on…
Soaring fire and medical calls and the increasing need to assist homeless people could bring changes to the Saint Paul Fire Department in 2022. A pilot project involving the department and on-call social workers from outside agencies would connect people…
From Highland Park to Highwood Hills, hundreds of parents, grandparents, students and educators are challenging the Saint Paul Public Schools’ (SPPS) Envision SPPS plan and offering research-based alternatives to closing and merging schools. SPPS administrators’ recommendations are based on questionable…
For a more inclusive SPPS The Saint Paul NAACP has been in discussions with the Saint Paul school district concerning Envision SPPS for the better part of this year. In advance of the School Board vote on December 1, the…
Seven local business owners filed suit on November 5 against the city of Saint Paul demanding that it close Freedom House at 296 W. Seventh St. and require that the drop-in day shelter for homeless people go through a city…
Months of debate came to an end on November 10 when the Saint Paul City Council unanimously adopted new zoning rules that allow daytime drop-in shelters for homeless people to open in neighborhoods throughout the city. The new rules were…
Writing is just a hobby, said Bob Garland, and a “most enjoyable” one. So enjoyable, that at 87 he has just published his 15th novel, Unicornery on Woodhouse Avenue, the sixth book in his Woodhouse Avenue series featuring an elderly…
The Wright Call By Dave WrightTwelve years after the fact, Tim Tschida remembers one October night very well. The Saint Paul native and Cretin-Derham Hall alum was the crew chief for the American League playoff series between the Minnesota Twins…
Meanwhile housing justice advocates keep watch for rent hikes as city enforcement lags. In the wake of the new rent control ordinance adopted by Saint Paul voters in a citywide referendum on November 2, there appear to be more questions…
The Saint Paul School Board has rescheduled its vote on the school district’s Envision SPPS reorganization plan for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 1. The vote was initially scheduled for November 16. However, Minnesota law requires school districts to give two…
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