Shall we return to the way things were?

Voices of the West Endby Jerry Rothstein This is the first installment of Voices of the West End, a new series in which neighbors discuss essential questions of policy, development, culture, community values…
Thermostats and norms

Building CommunityThermostats and norms No one had touched the thermostat, but within minutes of his beginning to speak one could literally feel the chill in the room. He came to the…
Modern Medicine’s Promising COVID Vaccine

West End Healthline By Jonathan Colin Rizo, MD, PGY2In December 2020, The BioNTech-Pfizer BNT162b2 and Moderna mRNA 1273 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization for the prevention of COVID-19. The rapid development of…
Fighting for Better Transit

Letter to the EditorBy James Schoettler and Kent Pettersen For any transit project to succeed, community members—the very people who hope to someday use the service—need to be in support…
Welcome to the Keg-O-Verse

by David Lamb Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, Phil Gagne rose through the ranks of the breweries occupying the Schmidt site, working dozens of jobs. By the time brewing halted in 2002, he…
West Seventh Street is not a corridor; it’s a neighborhood

The following letter, signed by the board of directors of the West 7th Business Association, was sent on December 8 to St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, the City’s seven councilmembers…
Transit for the Neighborhood—and the Region

Letter to the EditorBy James Schoettler, Citizen Advocates for Regional Transit (C-A-R-T.org) Kent Petterson made a number of good points in the December issue of the Community Reporter. In particular,…
St. Paul Teacher Joins Hall of Fame, Recognized for Outstanding Work in Youth Service

Keystone Community Services is proud to announce that one of our staff, Ed Steinhauer, was inducted into the Youth Intervention Hall of Fame on December 4. The annual award is…
New light on case sets Myon Burrell free

by David Lamb After the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020 spurred renewed interest in issues of institutional racism in the…