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BBB Tips on Finding a Tax Preparer

By Dan Hendrickson

Tax season is upon us again and the Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota (BBB) is encouraging taxpayers to do some legwork before selecting tax preparation help. Doing your research ahead of time may help you avoid getting hit with fines and fees if your return isn’t correct or filed late.

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U starts up bed bug hotline

By Matt Herbert, The Minnesota Daily

Entomologists at the University of Minnesota have established bed bug phone and email hotlines for a new bed bug resource center that will offer guidance on how to deal with bed bug infestations.

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Doing work in Dayton’s Bluff Historic District

By Staff, Dayton's Bluff Forum

Are you living inside the Dayton's Bluff Historic District? If you are, you should read this.

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CIB notes Most great community ideas require funds – a walk through the CIB process

By Dan Stahley, Dayton's Bluff Forum

The CIB, or Capital Improvement Budget, is a fund held by the City of St. Paul, designed to make capital improvements throughout the city.

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One-sort recycling coming to East Calhoun

By Sarah Sponheim, Uptown Neighborhood News

The East Calhoun neighborhood will participate in a pilot project to study the cost-effectiveness of one-sort recycling.  Beginning later this summer, eligible households (single-family to fou

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How to buy a bike: A guide for the first-timers, second-go-rounds, and the bike-curious at all levels

By Staff, Twin Cities Runoff
Jake Mohan

In the Twin Cities, there are three types of two-wheeled travelers: There are the competitive cyclists, who wear spandex and sniff at a 20-mile ride as “a good start.” There are the bike enthusia

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They’re working on the water mains

By Kerry Ashmore, Northeaster

Residents in the shaded areas will be affected by the water main relining project. (Graphic courtesy City of Minneapolis)

Residents and motorists in two areas of Northeast will have to deal with some inconvenience this spring and summer, and the payoff is expected to be cleaner water and about 50 years added to the us

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | We Have To Demand Power Won't Concede

By Mary Beaudoin, Free Speech Zone

When abolitionist Frederick Douglass said, “Power never concedes anything without demand. It never has, never will,” it was the middle of the nineteenth century. He was certainly prescient.

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Green jobs? Say what?

By Donavee Chappell, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Lori Anderson

MSR file photo

We have been bombarded with the word "green" for a number of years and told this is where things are going.

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Electronic media recycling now available at Hennepin County drop-off facilities

By Staff, Uptown Neighborhood News

Materials accepted include computer disks, DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray discs, video cassettes, audio cassettes, game cartridges, Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, flash drives, plastic cases and jewel cases

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