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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 agreed to extend Mayor Melvin Carter's state of emergency Wednesday while they continue to discuss a permanent solution to the city's trash collection service.
More changes are coming to St. Paul's rent control ordinance after a lengthy debate and divisive vote in the City Council. The slim 4-3 majority approved expanding the exemptions for capping rents ...
the St. Paul City Council voted 4-3 to eliminate rent caps for new construction, including residential buildings that received their certificate of occupancy after 2004. In doing so, the council ...
The St. Paul City Council convened a special meeting Friday to appoint a seventh member for the next four months who will fill the Ward 4 seat vacated by Mitra Jalali. But after about three ...
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.
Three members of the St. Paul City Council plan to introduce a major amendment to the city’s voter-approved rent control ordinance that will entirely exempt new construction, a concession to ...
The St. Paul City Council will host two public hearings Wednesday on an effort to exempt rent control for residential buildings constructed after 2004 and a separate initiative to install new ...
The St. Paul City Council has been without a seventh voting member since Feb. 5, when former Council President Mitra Jalali stepped down from her Ward 4 seat. After two months without a council ...
The St. Paul City Council approved the creation on Wednesday of a new committee, internal to the council, that will meet regularly to discuss financial matters related to police, fire, code ...