Posts by Sara Reller

A small crowd gathered Monday night for the first of six meetings set up by the WSCO about the Bridges of St. Paul project in the planned Community Engagement Schedule. The city staff presentation was mostly a rehash of planning documents that affect the area, and developer Jerry Trooien’s information was pulled mostly from the [...]

Money, history and community meetings might not be the stuff of soap operas, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the Bridges of St. Paul project. The controversy surrounding the project so far is sure to continue as the project moves forward. With historic designations and land use plans being questioned, the project is in [...]

An Ely Echo editorial written in the form of a letter to the Minnesota Department of Revenue had its own way of asking for the 50 new jobs that are being created in this northeastern Minnesota resort city.

Their reasons?
The Range DFLers will be most appreciative.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a bargaining chip the next [...]

Although dog attacks on humans have made big news recently, the annual incidence of dog bites is actually on the decline — at least in St. Paul.

Bob Stephenson, head of St. Paul animal control,  told the City Council on Wednesday that since 2001 there have been fewer than 250 dog bites per year. The number [...]

Bridges developer Jerry Trooien’s third information session on Monday night focused on selling a proposed Westin Hotel and the rest of the retail space in the Bridges project in St. Paul’s downtown to the gathered community members. Currently AMC theater has agreed to take a large portion of the retail space for use as a [...]

The St. Paul citizens who have been pushing for instant run-off voting will have a longer battle in the Capital City than their counterparts faced in Minneapolis. Several significant problems have been raised about the possibility of implementing alternate voting, the biggest of which would be conducting school board elections.

“St. Paul is the only city [...]

With laser pointers and projectors, the JLT Group broke out the big guns Monday night to try to impress upon the West Side of St. Paul that the Bridges development plan really does have the community’s needs at heart.

Still, developer Jerry Trooien started the meeting he organized with this blunt statement: “This is not an [...]

The Bridges project is back in the mix with two parallel sets of meetings. Bridges of St. Paul developer Jerry Trooien has created a series of four meetings and the WSCO board has also scheduled a series of meetings and studies. These are separate and independent groups.

Trooien has created a series of four meetings from [...]

The Bridges of St. Paul project is a controversial  $1 billion-plus project on St. Paul’s West Side that has weathered stormy waters.

The project was proposed and put in front of the West Side Citizens’ Organization board, which shot down the plan. It then went before the Zoning Board for rezoning, but before it could go [...]

In case you’ve been busy, here are a few quick stories from the past week.

Minnesota troops and families were fed and linked up across the world.

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