North Star Blog

Dakota County has decided to leave the CTIB (County Transit Improvement Board). The CTIB allegedly retaliated by refusing to fill a $12 million gap from the failed bonding bill with CTIB funds; this puts the Orange Line in jeopardy as the bulk of...

This July, Xcel Energy held a series of public hearings within its service territory in order to hear what its customers think of its request to increase the rate that people must pay to purchase energy. Xcel is asking the Public Utilities...

While the expectation for this year’s Dragon Festival included high temperatures and loads of rain, it certainly did not hold true once the event began. Instead, we had sun and loads of people!

As the 2016 session convened in March, environmental advocates approached with very modest expectations. Last year, the Legislature took a number of steps backward on the environment, rolling back protections for clean water and weakening clean...

For many years the Honduran indigenous group, Lenca, has suffered human rights abuses including land and natural resources exploitation by illegal development projects as reported in the New York Times and other media sources. Under international...

Last week the Minneapolis City Council unanimously adopted a nation-leading Complete Streets policy, which will support safer streets for everyone. At the same time, the city is in the midst of a search for a new Director of Public Works. The new...

What a fabulous Spring day, May 21, for a hike on the Superior Hiking Trail! On a 75 degree and sunny day up north in Duluth, the Sierra Club sponsored contingent of 10 hikers + one ten-month old outdoorsman, enjoyed a five mile hike in the Magney-...

This letter was hand delivered to 16 legislators, the Governor, and the Lt. Governor on Friday, May 13, 2016: The current debate about transportation funding is discouraging. We don’t need a bigger highway system for a growing population of retirees...

On a blustery spring Saturday 13 walkers showed up at Union Depot in downtown St. Paul for this circle tour of 5-6 miles. The Depot was chosen as the meeting point because of its location across from the last station on the Green Line light rail; as...

The Minnesota DNR is holding a public information session in Aurora to discuss the potential permitting path for PolyMet, and we need you there to voice your concerns and show your opposition. While this is not a public hearing and no "official"...