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Frederick Melo

Reporter · US

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Frederick Melo

    St. Paul, Roseville seek investigation as Xcel Energy billing issues rise (opens the original)

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    In Roseville, officials say the city sometimes receives electrical bills from Xcel Energy that are so late in the billing cycle, it’s impossible to make the due date. Xcel failed to bill or compile usage data for a particular city property for eight months, from July 2024 to April 2025, delaying credits for the building’s rooftop solar array. Sometimes, Roseville’s municipal properties are lumped together. Sometimes, they’re billed separately, if at all. The utility distributes electricity to th

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Frederick Melo

    St. Paul City Council OKs funds for downtown buildings (opens the original)

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    The St. Paul City Council has dipped into a Downtown Vitality Fund to put roughly $1.5 million toward improving two vacant or sparsely occupied commercial buildings in downtown St. Paul. Meeting as the city’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority on last week, the city council approved $800,000 in funding to the Downtown Development Corporation, which plans to restore the Endicott Arcade, a vacant single-story commercial building at 134 E. Fifth St. that previously housed the Hat Trick Lounge and

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Frederick Melo

    The Stella Apartments, Wabasha Park debut in downtown St. Paul (opens the original)

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    What’s downtown St. Paul’s hippest, most happening block? A case could be made for Wabasha Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, where the luxury 17-story Stella Apartments have now opened their doors next to a newly refurbished city-owned plaza that will soon light up at night, as well as the Osborn370 office building, all of which sit facing the popular Amsterdam Bar and Hall music venue and the family-run Ruam Mit Thai restaurant. “We haven’t even turned the lights on yet,” said St. Paul Pa

  4. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Frederick Melo

    ‘Beaten all the odds so far’: Retired Maplewood man fights to live — and travel (opens the original)

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    Darrell Charboneau knows he’s dying. He also knows he’s got two tickets on a cruise ship from Hong Kong to Tokyo in April, and a commitment to teach archery to a few dozen scouts at the Pine Bend Association’s sprawling Birch Bend campgrounds in rural Pierz, Minn., this weekend, a 320-acre site he’s helped lead with pride since 1972. The Maplewood man sees no contradiction between the three endeavors. All benefit from a certain meditative grace, and a willingness to savor the journey, moment to

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Frederick Melo

    St. Paul City Council approves maximum tax levy increase of 6.8% (opens the original)

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    The St. Paul City Council approved the maximum property tax levy this week, a ceiling that determines how high the 2027 levy can be set when the city budget is finalized in December. The 6.8% levy increase, proposed by St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her in August, could yet be lowered over the next few weeks. Council members Wednesday noted that the mayor had to find $26 million in cost savings and new revenue to balance the books for 2027, and even with some $15 million in new property taxes, the overal

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