The Cities Blog

Cartoon cats appear on Grand Ave.
The smiling faces of a lion and a tiger now frame the entrance to Creative Kidstuff in St. Paul. It took an act of the City Council to build them.
According to the complaint, Richfield police officers found Anderson sleeping in a minivan full of 19 rifles and shotguns - some of them loaded.
Don Samuels mulls mayoral bid
A third city council member expresses interest in taking over from R.T. Rybak.
Police say 22-year-old Eric Campion told them he took his rifle outside because "he was going down to help the police and he couldn't find his pistol".
Rock of ages
The McFarlane line of master stone carvers ends with Dean; there's not a family member waiting in the wings to carry on the craft.
My reporter's notebook on telling the Jam Line story.
Bottineau LRT corridor: Wildlife oasis or mattress dump?
A Golden Valley resident shares a visual sampling of the critters she's spotted in her wooded cul-de-sac overlooking a proposed light-rail corridor.