Minnesota Lawyer

It’s a busy day at Neighborhood House. St. Paul’s sprawling West Side community center is hosting a small Wells Fargo business convention, and people in ties and business blouses are milling about.

Officials have formed the joint St. Paul-Ramsey County Food and Nutrition Commission to kick around ideas for developing sustainable local food systems, thwart hunger, generate more locally grown produce and make culturally specific foods available for newly arrived immigrant communities.

If you are homeless, or struggling to avoid becoming homeless, it can be exceedingly difficult to get a pair of glasses.

Johnson, 59, a Highland Park native, is a corporate attorney by trade, but that’s not where he made his name: Johnson is a conservative blogger — arguably one of the nation’s most influential.

After quietly raising $2.1 million and opening a St. Paul thrift store last November, the Arc Greater Twin Cities nonprofit is now hoping to make some noise as it tries to raise $1.4 million more to open two additional Twin Cities locations.

Incoming St. Paul Police Chief Tom Smith knows his biggest immediate challenge will be to repair the tattered relationship between the department’s leadership and rank-and-file cops.

The city of St. Paul has jumped to the front of what might prove to be a long line of cities banning official travel to the state of Arizona.

It started out four years ago as a staff-training program at Hamline University in St. Paul. Since then the Antiracism Study-Dialogue Circles (ASDIC) Alliance program has fanned out across the east metro community, giving people of all ethnicities neutral places to engage in sometimes-difficult conversations about facing racism.

Minnesota Twins’ outfielder/designated hitter Jason Kubel may be a beast at the plate, but he clearly is a softie when it comes to little kids.

The metro area slipped in the latest Environmental Protection Agency list of cities with the most Energy Star-rated buildings, but it’s still doing pretty well.