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Unlike Minneapolis, which has government-managed trash collection resulting in a single collection option though the city, Saint Paul residents are permitted to shop around and choose any of more than a dozen licensed trash haulers to collect and remove their household rubbish. MORE »

In a packed hearing room of over 100 observers, legislators with the State and Local Government Operations committee took a first step towards forever changing judicial elections in Minnesota.  HMORE »

For more than 35 years, Don Fraser worked as a member of the Minnesota Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Mayor of Minneapolis. Born in Minneapolis, Fraser was educated in the public school system and later at the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Law School.  Today, Fraser works with the Committee of the Achievement Gap, a project of the DFL Education Foundation, which was organized to study the educational achievement gap experienced by children from high-poverty areas, with a focus on the Twin Cities metropolitan area.  MORE »

On January 18 we broke the story on a local group called Slavery to Sovereignty, who are scamming immigrant and African American communities in the Twin Cities, claiming they can eliminate participants' mortgages and all tax liabilities in return for $12,500.  MORE »