BrokenNails

The St. Paul City Council can fix a problem when they see them. When a series of public hearings had no one show up council members were surprised.
After looking into it the council discovered that there had not been proper notification of the meeting. At Wednesday’s city council meeting they rescheduled the public hearings so [...]

I know some people who read this are interested in getting involved with Franken and his campaign. Here’s a nice easy way to do it.
The easiest way to keep track of these things is just go to the website www.alfranken.com

Looking for controversy?
It’s nowhere to be found on an ordinance regulating non-lethal firearms in the city of St. Paul, which doesn’t seem to be drawing much opposition at all. At the public hearing Wednesday, no one stepped forward to speak against amending the city code to include a ban on public use of airsoft weapons.
Erik [...]

Take Action Minnesota endorsed candidates for St. Paul City Council Monday night. The progressive advocacy group met at the Wellstone Center to pick candidates to support.The only incumbent endorsed was Lee Helgen in Ward 5 for his stance on the Living Wage ordinance, which he wrote and worked to get through the council.
In Ward 1, [...]

St. Paul will be the place to do it in a little over a year. But if you want to make sure the 2008 GOP convention at the Xcel Energy Center in Downtown St. Paul doesn’t disrupt your schedule, or want to be certain you can get out and protest, now is the time to [...]

A letter from Willmar attorney John Burns blames Minnesota Citizens in Defense of Marriage for former state Sen. Dean Johnson’s loss in the 2006 election. The letter, published this week in the West Central Tribune, attacked the group and its two major contributors.Burns writes:
More than half of that [Minnesota Citizens in Defense of Marriage] organization’s [...]

How much do you think your mayor makes? Being the mayor isn’t even the highest-paid job you can do in a city. Check here and you can see that the Chief of Police, City Coordinator, and others get paid much more than the elected head of the city.How about city council members? [...]

Minnesota requires cities and counties with more than 15,000 people to notify residents of the three highest-paid government employees.The police chief in St. Paul is paid $124,511, the top salary for  city jobs. No. 2 is the deputy city attorney ($122,839), and No. 3 is the fire chief ($121,168).
The top three positions in Minneapolis pay [...]

The DFL will be lead for another two years by Brian Melendez and Donna Cassault who won re-election at Saturday’s Business Meeting. After an overwhelming win for the DFL in many seats, except the governors race, left little doubt that if Melendez and Cassault wanted to stay on they would have no trouble.
Melendez said in [...]

At least not in downtown St. Paul. The St. Paul City Council held a public hearing Wednesday on an ordinance to change the downtown sign regulations.  The new regulations would change a few things – most noticeably, they would squish the banners from the 5 feet to 3 feet high. The Capitol River Council (the downtown district council) [...]