Tag: Columns

  • Fort Road cookbook now available

    Fort Road cookbook now available

    Months in the making, West Seventh Cooks! cookbook is finally available for purchase. For $25, you can get a hold of about 85 recipes from your…

  • Addressing Minnesota’s Public Education Crisis

    Addressing Minnesota’s Public Education Crisis

    District PerspectivesBy Sen. Sandy PappascolumnistThe COVID-19 pandemic has upended our public schools over the past two years. Teachers are stressed, students are dealing with mental…

  • Impact of isolation during COVID pandemic, resources to help

    Impact of isolation during COVID pandemic, resources to help

    West End Healthline by Ashley Wittrock, MDHumans are social creatures. Our fellow humans help us maintain healthy habits, care for us when we are sick…

  • The Wisdom of Funerals

    The Wisdom of Funerals

    Building an Antiracist Community by Tim Johnson It can feel good to get the last word. You are in a debate or maybe an argument and…

  • Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters

    Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters

    BEA’S BOOKSby Beatrice Cosgrove, reviewerLiving Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories (written by Dan SaSuWeh Jones and illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre) is a…

  • Notebook Recollections: St. Stan’s Burns

    Notebook Recollections: St. Stan’s Burns

    Local staple Tim Rumsey walked to work most days from 1987 to 2000. He began as a form of exercise but kept at it for…

  • Get Ready for the Garden Season 

    Get Ready for the Garden Season 

    by Terry Giinther, Library Manager Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or you want to learn how green your thumb really is (or isn’t), the Saint Paul…

  • Forging ahead in 2022

    Forging ahead in 2022

    City Perspectives Forging ahead in 2022 Hello Saint Paul friends and neighbors,On Feb. 23, my colleagues at the St. Paul City Council discussed ongoing and successful…

  • The U.S. Origin Myth and Critical Race Theory

    The U.S. Origin Myth and Critical Race Theory

    Building an Antiracist Community The U.S. Origin Myth and Critical Race Theory According to the transcribed message on my phone, I had just missed a call from…