Minnesota Lawyer

For the past four years, the Rondo Community Outreach Library and the Minnesota Literary Council have teamed to provide literacy training to the neighborhood’s expanding immigrant community, as well as equivalency degree classes to high school drop-outs.

It’s the end of a time-honored tradition in Maplewood: If you’re a kid with a friend who has a car, you can no longer ride around on its roof, or its hood, or go careening through traffic with your posterior hanging out the window.

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.

A tree-killing infestation that started with beetles arriving on the outskirts of Detroit in Asian shipping crate has made its way to Minnesota, and Maplewood’s city tree inspector Andy Hovland will speak to residents to help them be ready if the bug starts gnawing on their ash trees.

Washington County wants to make sure it gets its fair share of the rapid-transit money pie, and it has hired a big-gun public relations firm, Tunheim Partners, to help make it happen.

The city of St. Paul is soliciting applications for challenge grants from non-profit organizations and from neighborhood and business associations, which could receive up to $5,000 in federal stimulus funds for their green-energy efforts.

Behind the many headlines the Central Corridor LRT project has generated, a bevy of state and local organizations has collaborated to integrate renewable and efficient energy issues into the corridor’s ongoing story.

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.

At a White House event last June, President Barack Obama highlighted the work of St. Paul-based Admission Possible, an organization that helps teenagers from poor families get into college.