Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl
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Nasra Ahmed, 23, was walking through the parking lot of her aunt’s St. Paul apartment complex when she found herself surrounded by a dozen agents. Ahmed, born in the USA, says she showed them her I.D. She was forcefully detained and jailed anyway for more than two days.
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl795,970 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
NOT JUST FOR HIPSTERS: You don't need gas or insurance to drive these cars. “This is a workforce solution. … It allows someone to use a car while they’re saving up to buy a car.” They just added 45 Chevy Equinoxes. Bulk of fleet is Chevy Bolt. Feds canceled the grant for an East Side expansion — but “where there’s a will there’s a way.”
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl329,512 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
Volunteers leave Narcan in a tree at the Pig’s Eye Park encampment, which has grown from 30 to 120 members over the past 2 1/2 years as the city has closed other sites. But if this one closes Aug. 5 as scheduled, will residents find permanent shelter, or simply flood downtown and the Midway?
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl11,164 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
St. Paul Public Schools will soon offer optional online learning at all 69 schools district-wide. That’s different than what happened Monday when they offered student transfers to SPPSOnline, their virtual school. Stay in your own school, without transferring, but go virtual — a temporary safety measure being finalized with the SPFE teacher’s union as I type:
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl40,411 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
Former Gov. Arne Carlson just called U of M President Joan Gabel every possible negative thing you can say on public radio without getting bleeped. He called out the Regents too. And CFO Myron Franz. (My dashboard is dusty. Get over it)
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl141,776 görüntüleme • 3 yıl önce
STATE OF LOCAL EMERGENCY DECLARED: St. Paul mayor says City Hall faces an “ongoing and dynamic threat” from cyber attackers and has shut down Internet systems and called in national cybersecurity experts to help. Gov. Walz has mobilized National Guard cybersecurity experts. Data stolen? Unknown.
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl51,791 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Carter — joined by city attorney, entire city council, police chief, fire chief, ISAIAH, faith leaders — says St. Paul will join a lawsuit filed by San Francisco against the Trump administration playing politics with federal funding for cities. We pay federal income taxes:
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl41,157 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
HAIL TO THE CHIEF: Pioneer Press editor-in-chief Mike Burbach isn’t retiring — not exactly — but he’s stepping down as top editor to pursue special projects at the paper. He’s been fighting the good fight at the “Dispatch” just one year less than I have, which suffice it to say is measured in decades…Pioneer Press, 176 years young!
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl11,707 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
The city’s hot mix plant isn’t open yet — it’s too cold — but there is now a way for St. Paul Public Works to fill potholes with durable hot asphalt in the winter. Crush some asphalt debris, drop it in a heated truck and truck it to your street. I saw it unfold it person. I am forever changed…That’s Mayor Her sweeping hot asphalt over a pothole…Here’s the moment I found out the Bagela was #deepdiscount
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl13,766 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Uptown Porch Fest drew 65 porch bands, a kiddie bounce house area by The Bridge/Starbucks/synagogue at 24th and Hennepin, and kiddie pool is surrounded by food trucks at Mueller Park (halfway ‘tween Hennepin and Lyndale). We should do a mini one in Hamline-Midway…
Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl17,781 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
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