The prospect of a five-mile elevated bikeway running along Summit Avenue — the longest continuous stretch of Victorian homes in the nation — has prompted at least a third of the 30 candidates for St. Paul City Council to speak out against the plans, which were approved by the council in May despite opponents’ concerns about potential impacts to trees, parking and aesthetics. Seven candidates .
A split St. Paul City Council on Wednesday approved a set of sweeping changes to its zoning code that allow duplexes, triplexes and townhomes to be built throughout the city. For decades, nearly half the land in St. Paul could only be used for single-family homes. Now, up to six housing units will be allowed in almost every neighborhood on lots that are large enough. The council voted 4-3 to .
Rent control is the Trojan horse issue of next month's Minneapolis city election. City Council candidates are not saying much about it. However, if the election tips the council's majority from moderate-to-progressive Democrats to progressive-to-socialist Democrats, then look for them to attempt new restrictions on the market and pricing power of landlords. I'm against rent control on .
Where to smoke the weed, now that it’s legal, seems to be the current preoccupation of the St. Paul City Council, whose members, had they been young enough, would have made their activist bones complaining about cigarette smoke and where exactly you couldn’t smoke them. Times certainly change. Around here, the times are changing at lightning speed. Just a few years ago, secondhand cigarette .
(St. Paul, MN) A group of protesters briefly disrupted traffic outside the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul last night. The group used vehicles and motorcycles to block Snelling