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The council members have come to loggerheads with the mayor’s office, and often with each other, over unresolved issues ...
St. Paul City Council President Mitra Jalali announced ... In 2023, she helped recruit young women of color to run as part of a campaign bloc, paving the way for what Jalali described as ...
The city of St. Paul has a new council ... city business to attend to. But this council in particular, when they were all elected, they were the first all-women council. It was very historic.
For the second time in five months, the St. Paul City Council was unable to take an override vote on a veto issued by Mayor Melvin Carter due to a timing snafu. On Tuesday, Carter vetoed the ...
The St. Paul City Council is welcoming its newest member ahead of important housing votes that will impact thousands of renters. Matt Privratsky, a St. Paul resident, was appointed by Mayor Melvin ...
After the St. Paul City Council reached a stalemate in a contentious debate over who should fill former council President Mitra Jalali’s seat on an interim basis, Mayor Melvin Carter ultimately ...
SOUTH SAINT PAUL, Minn — A campaign to recall South St. Paul city council member Pam Bakken is growing after a 3-year-old boy allegedly ingested methamphetamine off the floor of her home daycare ...
Since the beginning of this situation, almost four months ago, the citizens of South St. Paul have continually asked members of the City Council to speak up in demanding accountability and answers ...
They were heralded by some as the faces of the future — seven women elected to the seven-member St. Paul City Council, six of them women of color, all of them then under the age of 40.