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TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
April 20, 2018
Minnesota's opioid epidemic was more deadly than ever in Ramsey County last year, taking the lives of 72 people, a 16 percent increase over the year before. The urgent need to address the crisis ... “We are hope as government and nonprofits working on opioid addiction. You are hope as communityÃâà...
UMN News
April 20, 2018
The University of Minnesota's Resilient Communities Project (RCP) today announced Ramsey County and Scott County have been selected as its ... Affairs, seeks to connect students' innovation, ingenuity, and fresh perspectives with local government agencies to learn about their needs, conduct research,Ãâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 19, 2018
She sued Becker and Wright counties after they hired CPA firms and challenged Ramsey County's refusal to sign a three-year contract ensuring that her office had the sole ... Otto noted that the Legislature has spent about $400,000 on its court battle over a line-item veto of its operating budget by DFL Gov.
Southernminn.com
April 17, 2018
Ramsey County's Urgent Care for Adult Mental Health center at 402 E. University Ave. in St. Paul “offers a glimpse of what this bill envisions,” .... said they plan to approve about $800 million for bonding projects this session, or roughly one-third of what state and local government agencies have requested.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
April 15, 2018
“Too often people with serious mental health issues end up in our jails, our hospitals or on the street homeless,” Ramsey County Board Chairman Jim .... plan to approve about $800 million for bonding projects this session, or roughly one-third of what state and local government agencies have requested.
Duluth News Tribune
April 14, 2018
A Ramsey County Urgent Care mental health worker takes a crisis call from a Ramsey County resident at the Ramsey County Urgent Care for Adult Mental .... to approve about $800 million for bonding projects this session, or roughly one-third of what state and local government agencies have requested.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
April 4, 2018
The competition is anything but simple: Design the future, and design it fast, along five acres of vacant government-owned river bluff property in downtown St. ... More than 35 sponsors have contributed to the contest, including the Opus Foundation, Ramsey County, Hempel and the St. Paul Port Authority.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
April 2, 2018
In December, city and county officials opened up space for 50 homeless residents in the former county detox facility, which sits in a lower level of the Ramsey County Government Center East building on Kellogg Boulevard, below the county's human services offices. Overseen by Catholic Charities workers,Ãâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 31, 2018
But BRT isn't considered as fixed as light rail, and this could negatively affect the rating the project gets from the federal government as it parses out highly competitive grant money to transit projects nationwide. As Thursday's meeting crept toward its second hour, Ramsey County Commissioner VictoriaÃâà...
Minnesota Lawyer
March 30, 2018
The Ramsey County Bar Association in March awarded its Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award to Briggs and Morgan attorney Sally Scoggin in recognition ... The award is for a non-lawyer who promotes a better understanding of the government and encourages respect for courts and the rule of law.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 30, 2018
The Ramsey County Board of Commissioners this week approved nearly $1 million in planned improvements to the county's administrative offices within ... deputy county managers, an expanded policy and planning division, the new countywide communications division, government relations, economicÃâà...
Superior Telegram
March 25, 2018
Percentage-wise, the largest gains were on the southwest side of the metro. Carver and Scott counties each rose in population by more than 10 percent in the past seven years. Here is how metropolitan counties fared in the 2017 estimate: •Ramsey County had 547,974 residents, an increase of 39,334,Ãâà...
Park Rapids Enterprise
March 24, 2018
•Ramsey County had 547,974 residents, an increase of 39,334, or 7.7 percent, from the 2010 Census. •Hennepin County had 1,252,024 residents, an increase of 99,599, or 8.6 percent. •Dakota County had 421,751 residents, an increase of 23,199, or 5.8 percent. •Washington County had 256,348Ãâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 15, 2018
A high-speed chase north of St. Paul started when Howard Johnson went to the Washington County Government Center in Stillwater on Thursday afternoon ... Deputies from the Washington County Sheriff's Office were called to Community Corrections to arrest him on a felony warrant out of Ramsey County.
Finance and Commerce
March 14, 2018
The federal government acquired the property in 1941. Ammunition operations continued until 1976. The land had PCB-contaminated soil, lead, chlorinated solvents and other contaminants. It was once considered the largest Superfund site in Minnesota. Ramsey County spent $30 million in 2013 toÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 12, 2018
The City of St. Paul, Ramsey County and St. Paul Public Schools are working toward a data-sharing agreement in hopes of identifying troubled youth ... pay-for-success funding model, in which private investors provide the upfront cash to pay for interventions that will save the government money years later.
ECM Publishers
March 11, 2018
Having worked for Ramsey County while a college student, a job in government interested him, and Anoka County had an opening for deputy county ... benchmarks, section corner ties and historical section breakdowns can be found on the Anoka County GIS web application at gis.anokacountymn.gov.
NUjournal
March 9, 2018
PAUL — A new groundwater protection measure proposed by Gov. ... require fall nitrogen, areas with low leaching potential based on precipitation rates and a short spring planting season and counties where less than 3 percent of the land is used for row crops (Ramsey County and northeast Minnesota).
Minnesota Lawyer
March 9, 2018
Tanya O'Brien, a prosecutor in the Ramsey County Attorney's office, has been appointed a 1st District Court judge. Gov. Mark Dayton made the appointment last week and announced it March 5. “Tanya O'Brien has an outstanding record of public service and commitment to justice,” Dayton said in a pressÃâà...
Minnesota Lawyer
March 8, 2018
Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, offered an amendment to pull local units of government out of the bill and focus only on the legislative and executive branches. That was ... Retired Ramsey County District Court Judge Kathleen Gearin was among commission members who presented findings to the Public SafetyÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News (blog)
March 8, 2018
DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is expected to outline his school safety plan on Wednesday. “I'm willing to consider anything and everything,” he said last week. ... Attitudes about school safety have shifted across the state since the Florida shootings, Grace Keliher, government relations director for the MinnesotaÃâà...
MinnPost
March 8, 2018
All of these questions have been lingering for months, after DFL Gov. Mark Dayton appointed former Lt. Gov. ... A Ramsey County judge recently dismissed the lawsuit, arguing it was not ready for the courtroom, but Democrats have left the door open to appealing that ruling after Fischbach takes votes inÃâà...
News & Observer
March 6, 2018
The father was charged with two felony weapons counts and a gross misdemeanor for negligently storing loaded firearms where a child could get at them. He remained in jail with bail set at $25,000 after making his first appearance in Ramsey County court on Monday. The son is accused in juvenile court ofÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 6, 2018
Gov. Mark Dayton on Monday announced the appointment of Tanya O'Brien to the bench in Minnesota's First Judicial District, which covers Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Le Sueur, McLeod, Scott and Sibley ... O'Brien is an assistant Ramsey County attorney, where she prosecutes homicides and other felonies.
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
March 5, 2018
Days after a parent alerted deputies, Ramsey County deputies did their own investigation. After finding what they say were ... “We cannot disclose specific information related to a particular student given the restrictions of the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act.” Please know, however, that the safetyÃâà...
South Washington County Bulletin
March 4, 2018
While the trio planned their lock-in, which Koch said could last day and night, more organizations sought a say in what could get funding in a government shutdown. A hearing is to begin this morning in Ramsey County District Court in St. Paul to consider petitions by Dayton and Attorney General LoriÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
February 12, 2018
Renee Jones Schneider, Star Tribune Lt. Gov. Michelle Fischbach chatted with one of her lawyers before a motion hearing in the civil lawsuit claiming she should give up her Senate seat after becoming Lieutenant Governor when former Lt. Gov. Sen. Tina Smith was appointed to the U.S. Senate.
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
February 6, 2018
Political Showdown Over Lt. Gov. Position Goes Before Judge. Mary McGuire reports as Lt. Gov. Michelle Fischbach is being sued in Ramsey County Court for trying to hold two prominent government seats at the same time (2:06). WCCO 4 News At Noon -- Feb. 6, 2018. Categories: News Local News Politics WCCOTVÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
February 6, 2018
A Ramsey County judge is considering how to deal with a dispute over whether Republican Michelle Fischbach can serve as both Minnesota's lieutenant governor and as a state senator. The dispute arises from Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton's decision to appoint Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to the U.S. Senate lastÃâà...
Daily Globe
December 31, 1999
A Ramsey County Urgent Care mental health worker takes a crisis call from a Ramsey County resident at the Ramsey County Urgent Care for Adult Mental .... to approve about $800 million for bonding projects this session, or roughly one-third of what state and local government agencies have requested.
MinnPost
December 31, 1999
Says Mary Lynn Smith for the Strib: “A big, ugly and unpredictable storm is about to hammer much of Minnesota. What's certain is that the Twin Cities and areas north and south could be hit by a trifecta of rain, ice and snow. The big question is how much of what will fall where. Some parts of the state couldÃâà...
INFORUM
December 31, 1999
"It's very traumatizing," said DeClara Tripp, a Ramsey County mother who says one of her four children was unjustly removed from her custody. "It's emotional for me. It's a battle I ... A Ramsey County spokesman said they do not typically comment on individual child-protection cases. What would the bill do?
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
Ramsey County District Judge John Guthmann dismissed the previous lawsuit without prejudice in February, allowing Dusosky to bring it before the court again. Guthmann ... “Holding two offices in two branches of government at the same time is a clear violation of our Minnesota Constitution. This conflict ofÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News
December 31, 1999
But in St. Paul, it's a bit of a different story: Median home values in St. Paul and Ramsey County as a whole have yet to fully recover from the financial meltdown ... Each year, the government entities that are responsible for those things — cities, counties, school boards, watershed districts and dozens moreÃâà...
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
December 31, 1999
Fischbach and the lieutenant governor's office have become political pawns in a power struggle at the Capitol since she ascended to become Gov. ... Democrats have called Fischbach's dual roles a clear constitutional violation, though a Ramsey County judge dismissed a constituent's lawsuit last month,Ãâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Star Tribune Ann Jahnke demanded answers Tuesday in the death of her son Darren, shot by Ramsey County sheriff's deputies, and for his body to be ... “There's no compassion for surviving family members who face devastating loss due to governmental agencies' actions.
