Tag: Columns
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Origin Stories Part the Eighth: Fort Snelling at Bdote
While Fort Snelling has been around a couple hundred years, the Dakota have called Bdote home for eight thousand. Bdote is the confluence of the…
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Slip Happens: A St. Paul Guide to Surviving this Snowy Season
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, until you slip on that hidden patch of ice on your way to Grandma’s house. Remember these…
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50 years in West 7th
Notebook Recollections I used to be a doctor in West 7th for 50 years. (1975 to 2025). I retired last week. During that half century,…
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Artist Spotlight: Carolyn Kleinberger
Along the picturesque 4.5-mile stretch of Summit Avenue stand rows of stately Victorian mansions, earning the street recognition as one of America’s greatest in 2008…
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Progress for Minnesota, Despite Trump
I was glad to see so many folks from the neighborhood at the recent “Future of West 7th” town hall at North Garden Theater. With…
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Origin Stories Part the Seventh: Not in the Book’s History
In 1914 Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris was researching original “highways” of Minnesota and found few maps. As she investigated, she interviewed old settlers. “All at…
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Darkness & Mystery in Community
It was a sad day when the joy of playing in the darkness came to a sudden and abrupt halt. My grandfather, the patriarch of…
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Community Voices: St. Paul’s Brave Steps to Reduce Gun Deaths
Who will stand up for our children? Since the shooting at Annunciation Church almost four months ago, we’ve heard a lot of noise and seen…
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Community Voices: Stalled West 7th Improvements Are On The Community, Too
On Monday, October 29, I attended my 86th community meeting about the future of transportation on West 7th Street. I was not expecting much. I…
