The federal government is handing out $2.4 billion in railroad grants to assist pay for 122 projects nationwide with greater than half of the cash going to smaller railroads, including in Minnesota.
The grants announced Tuesday by the Federal Railroad...
Not way back, Mark Pfeifer applied to the town of St. Paul for just below $50,000 to spruce up the Hmong Cultural Center on University Avenue, in addition to to expand its recent museum round the corner. Because the...
The St. Paul City Council this week approved nearly $1.3 million in grant funding to 66 nonprofit arts and cultural organizations.
The grants are funded by a portion of the town’s half-cent sales tax, which for 25 years has supported...
An electrical school bus
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Here in Minnesota, we like to consider ourselves as leaders, especially relating to providing our children a world class education and a likelihood at a brighter future. To ensure that our children to...
When a coalition of childcare and early learning advocates asked the St. Paul City Council to fund childcare subsidies through public grants, the council opted to place a matter on the 2024 ballot for voters to think about. Should...
United Village, the largely-vacant space across the Allianz Field soccer stadium in St. Paul, will receive a $652,000 boost from the Metropolitan Council geared toward readying the land for future real estate development.
The Met Council, the seven-county metro’s regional...
A city-driven committee composed of two dozen educators and community advocates has asked the St. Paul City Council to place a matter on the November ballot that might cover the fee of childcare and early learning programs for low-income...
Pohlad Foundation and Cultural Wellness Center launch three-year pilot
On March 3, the Cultural Wellness Center (CWC) and the Pohlad Family Foundation announced the seven people invited to hitch the Black Legacy and Leadership Enrichment Initiative. A primary-of-its-kind community-designed effort,...
The Metropolitan Council is providing a lift to local housing agencies, approving $2 million in Livable Communities grants that can help them expand inexpensive homeownership opportunities in underserved communities.
Nine grants – a part of a brand new inexpensive homeownership...
A June 1, 2020, image of remnants of buildings burnt down during demonstrations following the murder of George Floyd.
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Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news.
The Strib’s Neal St. Anthony reports that the Minnesota Department of...
Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...
