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Jane Prince has been an active resident of St. Paul’s Ward 7 since 1984 when she and her husband purchased their family home in the Mounds Park neighborhood. Elected to St. Paul’s City Council in 2015, Jane passionately and effectively served her neighbors in Ward 7’s diverse neighborhoods until 2023. Now out of office, Jane's commitment to service and community continues as strong as ever.
Today, I urge Saint Paul City Councilmembers and Saint Paul residents to take a closer look at this effort. Under our current charter, the cost of fines and fees must be tied to the city's cost of enforcement. Administrative citation…
Maybe I'm missing something...but how does the City responsibly enter into a seven-year contract with a multi-national corporation when we have no idea what the cost will be to residential customers? And what is the cost to taxpayers of the…
Readers Write: Public project costs, health care, primaries vs. caucuses (startribune.com) This spring, the Minnesota Legislature is on a path to finance millions of dollars for many capital projects — new public buildings like convention or sports facilities and park…
Dayton’s Bluff Forum, May 15, 2024Each day we open the Pioneer Press to another announcement of an exodus from downtown Saint Paul: TKDA Architecture and Engineering’s 300 employees are moving to Bloomington, 75 US Bank employees are leaving. Ramsey County…
As the chair of the Saint Paul Library Board, I want to address some of the issues that have been raised about the library getting rid of fines. When I took office in 2016, one of my East Side constituents…
There were many reactions to last month’s presidential election, but the most disturbing were the stories I heard of school children – as young as 6 and 7 – coming to school in tears, speaking of “being deported,” and worrying…