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After 28 years as a St. Paul assistant city attorney, Lisa Veith left City Hall, and not happily. The strategy of the city attorney’s office, in her words, was “making my work life horrendous ...
“Maybe it’s not a savings to taxpayers generally, but it’s still a savings to the city of St. Paul,” said even-year proponent Peter Butler. “Most metro cities are on even-year election ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The City of St. Paul says it has filled all the potholes in the city. The potholes were a noticeable issue last winter, and at one point, Minnesota ranked No. 1 in the nation ...
Once again, St. Paul City Council will likely be assessing proposed changes to the city’s rent control ordinance this fall. But the changes proposed by St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter aren’t ...
By 2001, with maintenance costs rising and $2 million in repairs looming, St. Paul officials decided to close the park. A year later, the city sold the space to a caterer who wanted to turn it int ...
Credit: MinnPost photo by Kyle Stokes Hoping to ease the region’s critical housing shortage, the St. Paul City Council is poised to vote Wednesday to adopt sweeping new rules that would let ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks St. Paul, Minn., city council members Mitra Jalali and Saura Jost about their council. All members are women, under 40 years old, and six of the seven are people of color.
While St. Paul is believed to be the largest city with a council now represented entirely by women, others are making history as well. The City of Asheville, North Carolina, also has an all-female ...
Ruby Hunt, the woman who steered the creation of St. Paul’s home rule charter and went on to become the third woman ever to serve on the St. Paul City Council, has died at the age of 100.