West 7th Fort Road

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • 10/2/08 •

The buzz of coffee grinders drowns out the music of Jack Johnson, The Shins and old jazz artists every few minutes as the earthy smell of coffee drifts through the air at Fresh Grounds, a St. Paul coffee shop. Customers lounge on sofas, surfing the Internet on their laptops, or sit around small tables chatting with friends while sipping their drinks. MORE »

Protesters, journalists and old-style hippies were among the targets in the first 24 hours of police raids in preparation for the Republican National Convention.

Sheriff Bob Fletcher claimed that his operation targets only the RNC Welcoming Committee, a local anarchist protest group. However, police also targeted journalists from I-Witness video and a family traveling in a green bus and demonstrating environmentally-friendly practices such as solar panels, hydroponics and composting. MORE »

by Mary Kay Bailey, live.eat.play.twin cities • July 1, 2008 • While on the St. Paul Phototour website, I discovered that Joe Hoover has posted a bunch of neighborhood walking tour maps. They bring you into some pretty interesting parts of the city. Here’s the sampling along with the links:

Dayton’s Bluff Historic District: