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Jan 10, 2025 | 
startribune.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
Money from a 2021 infrastructure law will pay for more planning on the Rondo I-94 project, and to rebuild parts of Robert Street through St. Paul’s West Side. A rendering of a possible land bridge over Interstate 94. The idea is being studied. (ReConnect Rondo/The Minnesota Star Tribune)Federal funds announced Friday will bolster two major St. Paul infrastructure projects: planning for a land bridge over Interstate 94, and reconstruction of Robert Street on the city’s West Side.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
startribune.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
Preservation group hopes to raise enough money to repair the Walnut Street Stairway. A stairway, which is currently closed, goes down from Summit Avenue next to the James J. Hill house to a bridge across the highway to United Hospital and Children’s Minnesota Hospital in St. Paul on Thursday.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
startribune.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
The $10.4 million demolition of the historic building and construction of a new library is expected to start this year, as officials seek more funds. St. Paul's Hamline-Midway Library is slated for demolition. (Zoe Jackson/The Minnesota Star Tribune)With the end of a years-long lawsuit over historic preservation, the demolition and reconstruction of a St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway library will start this year. Construction bids are set to close Jan.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
startribune.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
The city’s Board of Zoning Appeals Monday denied variance requests from Ryan Companies to scale back development for Highland Bridge, saying they want the developer to do more. A large empty lot is seen in front of finished apartments at the Highland Bridge site in St. Paul in May. The area was formerly the site of Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Ryan Faircloth |Josie Albertson-Grove
Minnesota had a record surplus two years ago. Now, it’s projecting a deficit on the horizon. How did the state get here? December 7, 2024 at 3:33PMMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz addresses the media after State Budget Commissioner Erin Campbell, State Economist Anthony Becker and state Budget Director Ahna Minge presented Minnesota's latest economic forecast at the Minnesota Department of Revenue in St. Paul on Wednesday.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
A dozen districts hire specialists, eye better data with $4.7 million in state funding. Maria Ahlgren at Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis is part of the We Want You Back Team reaching out to students who are missing school. (Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune)A group of school districts across Minnesota say they are figuring out better ways to get student attendance back on track, with the rate of chronically absent students stubbornly high even years after COVID school closures.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
winonadailynews.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
Legislative leaders announced this week who will chair committees in the next session, appointments that will shape the tenor of debate in the Minnesota House that will almost certainly be evenly divided in a rare tie between DFLers and Republicans. Bills are typically debated and amended in at least one committee before going before the full House for a vote. In a typical year, bills could pass out of committee on a partisan vote. But the two caucus leaders, Rep.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
“A very large amount of absentee ballots dropped off at cities tonight is causing a delay in our reporting,” read an Anoka County statement on election night. “We want our results to be 100% complete instead of releasing a partial count.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
Scott County’s canvassing board meets Wednesday afternoon to certify the results from Minnesota’s closest legislative race of 2024, a process that starts the clock on a recount — which could change control of the state House. Unofficial results show DFL Rep. Brad Tabke of Shakopee leading Republican Aaron Paul by just 14 votes.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Josie Albertson-Grove
But in May that year, DFLers voted to expel Independent-Republican Rep. Robert Pavlak of St. Paul. The DFL had sued Pavlak, alleging he distributed false information in campaign literature. Sviggum said Pavlak reprinted a newspaper editorial that got some facts wrong. Pavlak lost an appeal of the case, and the DFL moved to oust him. Because Pavlak could not vote in his own case, the vote was 67-66, and he was removed. That move gave the DFL a one-seat majority.
