Addressing a supportive audience at the downtown Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter promised hefty new investments in housing and homebuyer assistance, street reconstruction and parks projects, all made possible by new local and regional sales taxes and … Continued
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel who impugned the president’s age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents will himself be up for questioning this week. Robert Hur is scheduled … Continued
St. Paul has hired a consultant to explore selling the downtown annex building across from City Hall, which could lead to what St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter hopes will be a new era of office-to-residential conversions in a downtown that … Continued
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER (Associated Press) Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name. The hard-line Republican congresswoman from Georgia, who was decked out in … Continued
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is going all-in on calling out “shrinkflation.” The term applies to a seemingly covert way for companies to raise prices by ever so slightly reducing the size of their products. There’s suddenly fewer pretzels in the … Continued