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With pothole season underway, St. Paul asphalt plant roars to life after holding pond-related delay

Last yr drivers filed 85 claims against town of St. Paul over pothole-related automotive damage. That total has already been eclipsed several times over this season, even with winter snowfall yet to totally melt. Claims previously two months alone...

Mitchell Hamline opens latest Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law 

In February, Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul hosted a gala launching the brand new Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law, and formally introduced the middle’s latest director, Dr. T. Anansi Wilson. The...

Carlos Correa and Byron Buxton, “brothers for all times,” expect to steer Twins for next six years

FORT MYERS, Fla. — It was a Thursday night last April, the Twins’ first off day of the 2022 season, and in an try to recuperate acquainted together with his latest teammates, shortstop Carlos Correa had organized a team...

Addressing (and improving) life expectancies for Black Minnesotans

Therapy is a method Pastor Edrin Williams takes care of himself. Supplied Part IV in a 4 part series on health outcomes affecting Black Minnesotans. You may read Part I, about breast cancer disparities, here. Part II on sickle cell disease here and...

Real World Economics: Life Expectancy is down. So what?

Edward Lotterman U.S. life expectancy fell in 2021 in accordance with a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. And death rates rose. Neither of those indicators are excellent news, but some droop was to be expected on condition...

Jim Bradshaw, St. Paul mortician who put deal with ‘celebration of life,’ dies at 78

Jim Bradshaw, founder and chairman of St. Paul-based Bradshaw Funeral and Cremation Services, a “kind, calming and caring presence” who comforted 1000's of individuals during his 50 years within the funeral business, died Wednesday. He died two hours away from...

Stan Nelson’s Julbord party ‘honors everybody who has touched his life’

The preparations for Stan Nelson’s next Julbord party start as soon as this 12 months’s ends. Nelson and his catering staff rigorously weigh how much is left of every of the roughly 50 Scandinavian dishes he serves at his St....

Q&A: University Enterprise Labs director talks MN life science start-ups

Situated toward the westernmost corner of St. Paul bordering Minnesota 280, a large glass-paneled constructing has develop into an incubator of sorts for emerging life science corporations, with efforts starting from clinical trials of experimental drugs to latest lab-based...

‘Just that Indigenous Excellence’: How Jim Thorpe inspired rapper Tall Paul’s latest record and life path

Anishinaabe and Oneida hip-hop artist Tall Paul on Jim Thorpe: “There definitely is that ancestral energy that’s so strong, regardless that he’s not my literal ancestor, but like in Native ways, he’s like someone who inspires you. You think...

Here’s our 2022 Twin Cities gift guide for the food-lover in your life

All of us have them on our gift lists: Food-loving folks who appear to have all of it. These are the oldsters who buy themselves all the perfect equipment, stock high-end ingredients of their pantries and find all probably the...
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St. Paul prevails in legal fight to raze, replace historic Hamline-Midway Library

Following 16 months of litigation, a Ramsey County district judge has given the town of St. Paul the go-ahead...
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St. Paul-based Securian Financial lays off 58 employees across departments

Securian Financial has notified 58 employees — roughly 2% of its total workforce — that their roles with the corporate are being eliminated in...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum seeks thirteenth term in rematch with May Lor Xiong in 4th District

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...

Believed to have been the oldest working nurse in Minnesota, Joyce Gimmestad retired at 88. She reflects on 7 many years in healthcare

Joyce Gimmestad hoped to succeed in 90 before retiring from being a nurse. Still, she retired on June 22, at 88, attributable to a...

Family of 83-year-old St. Paul man killed in hit-and-run: ‘We’ll forgive you. … Please turn yourself in’

For 30 years, John Bidon took each day runs around Lake Phalen near his St. Paul home. He’d stretch it out to 5 miles...