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ST. PAUL NOTES | Summer jobs for teens
Teens who want to work this summer need to start looking for jobs now, especially if they want to apply for a city or nonprofit job program. In St. Paul, March 30 is the application deadline for summer youth corps jobs. These are jobs for economically disadvantaged or at-risk Saint Paul youth, ages 14 to 24.MORE »
BBB Tips on Finding a Tax Preparer
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.MORE »
U starts up bed bug hotline
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.
Bed bugs have had a recent resurge in North America as a result of increased travel, changing insecticide use and the lack of public awareness.MORE »
Doing work in Dayton’s Bluff Historic District
Are you living inside the Dayton's Bluff Historic District? If you are, you should read this. The map below (more clearly presented at http://www.daytonsbluff.org/History/HistoricDistrict/HistoricDistrictMap.html) shows the boundaries.MORE »
CIB notes Most great community ideas require funds – a walk through the CIB process
The CIB, or Capital Improvement Budget, is a fund held by the City of St. Paul, designed to make capital improvements throughout the city. Before the CIB process was started, the various city departments, community organizations and residents of the City of St.MORE »
One-sort recycling coming to East Calhoun
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 four-plexes) will be able to mix all recyclables in one large cart (similar in size to our current garbage carts) instead of sorting them into paper bags. This project, a collaboration between HennMORE »
How to buy a bike: A guide for the first-timers, second-go-rounds, and the bike-curious at all levels
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 enthusiasts, who might commute to work or school by bike (even in the winter), who integrate cycling into every aspect of their lives and talk a lot about “bike culture.” And then there’s everybody else—peMORE »
They’re working on the water mains
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 useful lives of their water mains.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | We Have To Demand Power Won't Concede
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. Here, in the United States, in the 21st century, the struggle continues.MORE »
Green jobs? Say what?
We have been bombarded with the word "green" for a number of years and told this is where things are going. We have been urged to become aware of the concept and get involved in the "green economy." Okay then, what is "green," and what does that have to do with getting jobs and being involved in the "green economy"?MORE »
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