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With laser pointers and projectors, the JLT Group broke out the big guns Monday night to try to impress upon the West Side of St. Paul that the Bridges development plan really does have the community’s needs at heart.Still, developer Jerry Trooien started the meeting he organized with this blunt statement: “This is not an [...]

The Bridges project is back in the mix with two parallel sets of meetings. Bridges of St. Paul developer Jerry Trooien has created a series of four meetings and the WSCO board has also scheduled a series of meetings and studies. These are separate and independent groups.Trooien has created a series of four meetings from [...]

The St. Paul City Council’s chambers were packed during Wednesday’s regular meeting with Sustainable St. Paul Award winners. Winners included city and public school departments along with a few nonprofit and for-profit businesses.The Sustainable St. Paul project was a cornerstone of Mayor Chris Coleman’s election campaign. The awards are supposed to honor outstanding achievement for [...]

In a surprising step incumbent Lee Helgen and David Haas gave a joint statement to the Ward 5 delegates asking for no endorsement. This very unusual move came about because of challenges and a potential for a very protracted convention.
The candidates who prepared the statement ahead of time said, “[The credentials] committee dealt with an [...]

Pet owners in St. Paul may have to shape up or stop getting new pooches. City Council President Kathy Lantry has proposed an ordinance that would revoke dog owners’ licenses if they have had any dogs removed twice from their care within the past five years.
Lantry said the changes were not prompted by recent dogs [...]

St. Paul will be focusing its new Invest Saint Paul program on foreclosures. Home foreclosure is a significant problem in the program areas of Frogtown, North End, Dayton’s Bluff and the Lower Eastside. The foreclosures and vacant properties in these neighborhoods are the starting point for the city to focus reinvestment and try to turn [...]

Nobody likes seeing the big property tax assessment.The IronGate Mall in Hibbing and its 15 tenants’ leases were in question Tuesday at the Minnesota Supreme Court. IronGate Enterprises, the mall’s owners and taxpayers on the property, filed a petition for review of the taxes assessed on its property. Within the first 60 days of the [...]

The St. Paul City Council passed a resolution Wednesday that calls for transparency of the process for protesters and public input on the community involvement on the Republican National Convention.  The action came at a council meeting as several protesters sat in the audience holding signs that blared such sentiments as “Our Streets, Their War.”Downtown [...]

The goal of the Letters of Hope 2007 Initiative is to send the hopes of children across the country into space. Letters that tell of children’s wishes will be scanned and put on a disk to be sent on a NASA shuttle mission.
The concept is the brainchild of St. Paul mail carrier Gary [...]

St. Paul City Council Member Dave Thune on Monday ended the Tri-Council planning process for the Bridges of St. Paul. This will send the $1 billion project back to the developer who could try reapplying for rezoning or could ask the city to look at a new small area plan for the area. The next [...]