Gov. Mark Dayton issued an executive order on Tuesday calling for an election within 60 days to determine if in-home day-care providers want union representation. The state's roughly 11,000 licensed child-care workers will vote on whether they wish to be represented by the SEIU Kids First Local 284 and AFSCME Council 5.

In a battle among St. Paul DFLers, Chris Tolbert on Tuesday night beat John Mannillo for the open Ward 3 City Council seat.

The city is soliciting entries for its fourth annual Sidewalk Poetry Contest. Contest winners get their short - make that very short - poems stamped into sidewalk panels that are now scattered at 268 sites around the city.

Erin Dady, who played a key role in planning for the 2008 Republican National Convention, has been named St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman's new chief of staff. Dady previously served as the city's director of marketing and convention planning.

Jonathan Franzen's widely hailed epic American novel "Freedom" largely takes place in St. Paul's Ramsey Hill neighborhood. The author's grasp of the nuances of the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in the pre-Bush years are seemingly spot on. It's chock full of delicious details (W.A. Frost!) that will have locals nodding.

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is calling on St. Paul's state legislators to push back against what he called an "imbalance" in the current Vikings stadium legislation that favors the western Twin Cities metropolitan area over the East Metro.

Planning is under way for St. Paul's 2010 Cinco de Mayo festival, which is one of the nation's 10 largest such celebrations. So planners are gearing up to recruit members of the festival's volunteer planning committee.

Noted fiction writer Jonathan Franzen wrote “Good Neighbors,” a fiction piece in the June 8th issue of New Yorker magazine focused on the adventures of ...

Noted fiction writer Jonathan Franzen wrote “Good Neighbors,” a fiction piece in the June 8th issue of New Yorker magazine focused on the adventures of ...

Curious to know what kinds of infrastructure projects the Twin Cities are touting for possible funding with proceeds from the $800 billion federal stimulus package? ...