The Legal Marijuana Now Party will no longer be recognized by Minnesota as a major political party following a Friday ruling by the state Supreme Court. Now the state is left with two major parties with automatic ballot access — … Continued
Although college isn’t for everyone, earning a degree still offers a pathway to success for many Americans. Yet each year, hundreds of thousands of low-income, college-ready students never actually enroll, partly because the application process prioritizes administrative busywork over academics. … Continued
Weeks before the pandemic swept into Minnesota, Rico Thomas opened a ground-level ice cream shop in downtown St. Paul’s Alliance Bank Center on Wabasha Street, hopeful he’d soon be scooping cones to passersby at a rapid clip. Then the opposite … Continued
Planners and policy advisers with the Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority are still at least a summer away from deciding whether to connect downtown St. Paul’s Union Depot to the Mall of America in Bloomington by installing bus rapid transit … Continued
A former dean of nursing at St. Catherine University has been arrested and charged with embezzling more than $400,000 from the St. Paul school through bogus contracts with a healthcare consultant she was dating. Laura Jean Fero, 54, who now … Continued
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in … Continued