The resolution claims renaming 4th Street to "Positively 4th Street" for the famously bitter song would "add to the positive experience of fans and visitors arriving in downtown to cheer for its baseball team."
Organizers decided this year to shorten the festival from 10 days to four. They also eliminated some traditional events like the Milk Carton Boat Races.
The project will help offset increased energy demand from all the gadgets office workers have added since the skyscraper was built in 1972, before energy efficiency became a priority.
In 1839, the badly beaten body of John Hays was found on the shores of the Mississippi River. Edward Phalen, an early St. Paul settler, was the first suspect.
Metro Transit identified three officers involved in the incident in which a 21-year-old African-American man was thrown to the ground for not paying a light rail fare.