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The Cities Blog

Taste of Minnesota to return next year

Four years after being forced into bankruptcy A Taste of Minnesota will return to St. Paul next summer, managed by a team that includes the widow of the event’s founder. The music and food festival will be held July 3-6. The management team includes Linda Maddox, whose late husband Ron founded the festival in 1983. Maddox took steps Read more →
by Curtis Gilbert

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Ramsey County domestic violence sweep leads to 12 arrests

Ramsey County domestic violence sweep leads to 12 arrests

St. Paul police Sgt. Jesse Mollner spent most of the day conducting house-to-house searches. He and a squad of police probation officers worked from a list of domestic violence suspects, warrants in hand. At one St. Paul residence, police found Ken Shaw, 55, who seemed unsurprised to see law enforcement. Police say he was charged Read more →
by Tim Nelson

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Cherryhomes gets infusion of PAC cash

Cherryhomes gets infusion of PAC cash

Deep-pocketed supporters of Minneapolis mayoral candidate Jackie Cherryhomes have a new place to send their checks. A political action committee calling itself Minneapolis Forward filed papers yesterday with Hennepin County. “This is a very competitive race and it does take money to get Jackie’s message out to voters,” committee chair Jim Bernstein wrote in response Read more →
by Curtis Gilbert

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A Minneapolis shelter for Muslim women

A Minneapolis shelter for Muslim women

The shelter has room for only a handful of women escaping abuse. Many other clients are helped through home visits or telephone counseling for a range of concerns from raising kids, to finding jobs, to housing problems.
by Dan Olson

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Another weekend of I-694, 494 closures and detours

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is wrapping up a big improvement project on Interstate 694 in the next month. But it will require one more weekend of road detours in Arden Hills and New Brighton. MnDOT officials say the westbound side of Interstate 694 will narrow to a single lane between Interstate 35W and Long Read more →
by Tim Nelson

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Southwest LRT committee recommends shallow tunnel

Southwest LRT committee recommends shallow tunnel

An advisory committee for the Southwest light rail project voted nearly unanimously Wednesday to recommend to the Metropolitan Council that the light rail trains run underground in a shallow tunnel through the scenic and narrow Kenilworth Corridor of Minneapolis, keeping freight alongside it. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak was the lone “no” vote. The long-awaited vote Read more →
by Liala Helal

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