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St. Paul City Council and Board of Education candidates have been smiling for the camera. St. Paul E-Democracy has given all candidates a chance to have their say and make it available on YouTube.Ten candidates have already taken advantage of this opportunity and said their piece. Each of the videos run less than five minutes. [...]

The St. Paul City Council heard several points of view on instant run-off voting at a policy session on Wednesday. IRV, which is being pushed in St. Paul after passing in Minneapolis, is an alternate voting method that would eliminate the primary election by having ranked voting.St. Paul would face several issues that Minneapolis won’t, [...]

The St. Paul City Council adopted an ordinance Wednesday to  require green space be allocated on all new developments in St. Paul. Developers could also pay a fee that would go into funding the purchase of parkland.Duriing the public hearing for the ordinance last week, there was discussion about postponing the effective date of the [...]

St. Paul’s Downtown Council member Dave Thune wants to make sure that protesters can have their say at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
Thune will be introducing a resolution that would have St. Paul “greet demonstrators with the same respect and honor accorded to the conventioneers.” Thune said that the resolution will be supported by Mayor [...]

Check out a good write up of the Ward 4 debate.
http://www.mnblue.com/node/299

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman gave his second State of the City Address Monday night. “Today I’m proud to report that St. Paul’s a strong city, made stronger by our shared values of cooperation, responsibility and respect.”
Coleman talked about economic development, public safety, education, the environment and “the soul of our city”.
He spoke extensively about [...]

If it looks like a grain bin, and it smells like a grain bin, it gets taxed as a grain bin. The Minnesota Supreme court agreed with the lower court’s decision that Custom Ag Service of Montevideo’s grain bins should be subject to use tax.
The bins were purchased from out of state to be used [...]

The Tri-District Council that was created to work on developer Jerry Trooien’s Bridges of St. Paul project met for the second time Monday night to try to agree on some basic rules, an operating structure, and a mission. They didn’t get very far.Dave Engfer from the West Side Citizen’s Orginization board said, “It’s going to [...]

Education Minnesota, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and the Minnesota Vikings Football Club are the top-three spenders for lobbying, putting a combined $4 million into pitching state legislators. In 2006, the Vikings spent $1.16 million, nearly six times what they did in 2005. Education Minnesota, the union representing teachers, nearly doubled its spending –  from [...]

The Minnesota Supreme Court overturned a decision to let a developer continue his project despite community and city concerns because of a missed deadline. Developer Hans Hagen will not be able to continue with his 303-unit development in Minnetrista despite the lack of written notification about denial of his rezoning request.
Writing for the majority, Justice [...]