Glass City Jungle

There were several bills that were rushed thru the Ohio General assembly before they ended for this year. One of which was Substitute House Bill Number 239. It changed portions of the ORC (Ohio Revised Code) on abortion. It has not been signed yet by Governor Taft, but I think we should [...]

I know it’s somewhat traditional to go back and post top blog items or what the blogger’s favorite posts were from the year but when have I ever been traditional? What I would like to do though is give the readers of Glass City the opportunity to post what they’d like to remember [...]

Technically, Toledo City Council is supposed to be non-partisan. However our government has become more partisan everywhere and that unfortunately will probably continue. Here in Lucas County and on Toledo City Council, it’s not the Republican party versus the Democratic Party, the majority of times it is the Democratic Party against the Democratic [...]

I headed over to Toledo Talk this morning as I do almost every day to see what was being talked about and I read this post which states someone hacked into Toledo Talk and was posting as other people as well as changing profiles.
Why someone would feel it necessary to spend that much [...]

My goal is to provide as many useful links/web resources as possible while keeping them in an organized format that is user friendly. On the old Glass City Jungle I had many of these links on the front page but it made finding the right link more of a challenge. Using Wordpress you [...]

An article I wanted to point out in the Dayton Daily News by Martin Gottlieb. I can’t say I agree with all of the article but it makes some interesting points and felt it was an item of interest. Especially on the trade issue:
“Fair trade” seems to boil down, pretty much, to the [...]

Chris Myers emailed me the other day to let me know that he had received information as the result of an open records request of quite a few documents. Included in the zip file that you can download from Toledo Politicians is over 570 pages of email communication between the various board members, TPS [...]

Tom Watkins will be taking to the airwaves starting January 8th over at WTOD with a new talk show called “Toledo Today” each weekday morning from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. As the name implies it will be about local issues and events with callers encouraged to join in. Tom invites [...]

Frank Szollosi has announced his interest in becoming the next President of Toledo City Council, Wilma Brown will formally announce her interest in becoming President of Toledo City Council…
There seem to be several opinions on this, the top three I have heard recently:
Rob Ludeman only has one more year to go, it’d be [...]

A ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday suggests that it is acceptable for fault to be placed on an employee. As quoted in today’s Toledo Blade this goes against the traditional belief of how the Workman’s Compensation system functions as pointed out by Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton in her dissent:
“Our workers’ compensation system [...]

Michael Miller, the editor in chief of the Toledo Free Press, has been filling in for Fred LeFebvre who is on vacation. Tomorrow at around 8:00 a.m. his special in studio guest will be….me!
We will be talking about the top ten stories of this blog of 2006 and the recent Blog it! Toledo Readers Choice [...]

In what can only be described as a standing room only event, Ben Konop was sworn in as Lucas County Commissioner today. Thanks to using a different camera we do have the entire event, including Judge Skow’s remarks and Angela Zimmann’s welcome and prayer “filmed”. I’m in the process of compressing/uploading to be [...]

There’s even video evidence….

The 54th Carnival of Ohio Politics is now out and can be found here, thanks as always to Paul Miller for putting this together each week. The posts are a recommended read by some of the best bloggers in Ohio.
If you haven’t seen Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, make sure to [...]

A reminder:
WHO? All local Democrats
WHAT?: Lucas County Young Dems Holiday Happy Hour
WHEN?: Thursday, December 28, 2006 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
WHERE?: The Blarney, [...]

This just in moments ago from my email:
Szollosi Announces Bid For Toledo City Council Presidency
Calls for Unity to Meet City’s Many Challenges
Citing a lack of progress on the $10.7 million city budget deficit, lack of city economic development leadership, and forging stronger ties with new Democratic leadership in Columbus and Washington, City Councilman Frank Szollosi [...]

This is going to be a phone number you are going to want to remember, and I will add it to under the “Survival Basics” category on the side bar. Starting January 1st, 419-936-2020 is the number to call rather than using 911 for non-emergency services. This is supposed to give you access [...]

Those of you waiting to see the remaining local blogs who were nominated for the Blog it! Toledo Readers Choice Contest will have to hold on in suspense one more week. However, while you are waiting, this week’s edition of the Toledo Free Press is 2006 in review.

It had been reported earlier that COSI was scheduled to close because their November levy failed. According to the Toledo Blade that closure has been delayed by the donation of:
…a couple hundred thousand dollars” from The Anderson Foundation, KeyBank, and others…

This from my email box:
(Toledo, Ohio) – Konop to be Sworn In as Lucas County Commissioner Noontime ceremony at One Government Center
Democrat Ben Konop, recently elected to a four-year term as Lucas County Commissioner, will be officially sworn in on Thursday, Dec. 28th at Noon. The swearing-in will take place in the Commissioners’ Chambers on [...]

Thanks to Jill over at Writes Like She Talks; I read this Cleveland Plain Dealer article by Sheryl Harris focusing on who in the Ohio General Assembly voted yes on S.B. 117. Curiousity set in as to which one of our members in NWO voted yes for this particular bill that Harris [...]

With a curtsy to Redhorse over at Psychobilly Democrat comes this story informing us that our Ohio Senators didn’t seem to see the value in the highway bill that had over 60 unrelated items:
Among them were honorary designations that would have named the pawpaw Ohio’s official native state fruit, the bullfrog the official state [...]

Last week, Ted Strickland announced that he wanted Columbus City Councilperson Mary Jo Hudson to be the director of the Ohio Department of Insurance. According to the press release she has some experience with this department:
From 1989 to 1996, Hudson worked for the Ohio Department of Insurance and Office of the Ohio [...]

I for one was disappointed to read in today’s Toledo Blade that the Regional Growth Partnership was discontinuing their monthly manufactoring index report. If you look to the right on the side bar and note the “Survival Basics” they are at this point the sole listing under Economic, I plan to add more [...]

As this Columbus Dispatch article points out, there are many people, 297,000, who are looking forward to the minimum wage increasing. Then the additional numbers who will see an increase as pay scales are adjusted to reflect the change in the minimum wage.
Yet Ohioans for a Fair Minimum Wage, which is the [...]

Besides my being in a segment of today’s program, first up was Governor Bob Taft who basically did a farewell interview. He talked about some of the accomplishments he was proud of such as the Core curriculum changes for High School students and still stood by his decision to support Ohio Cities to be [...]

I think first we should give kudos to the over 120 college graduates and soon to be college graduates who attended the Best and Brightest event. Considering 500 filled out the survey from the over 13,000 that it was sent to, that is to me a great level of participation. I hope that [...]

Rev. Michael Pitts of Cornerstone Church was stopped back on December 6th at one of the “Highway Inspection” stops that if you live or drive in the burbs you are well acquainted with. The Highway Patrol sets up a random check point and pulls cars over to look for violations. If you [...]

In March of this year there was a Toledo Blade article that I blogged about with a main focus on increasing parking at Fort Industry Square and other changes to Summit Street that included removing left-turn lanes, originally created to get vehicles out of the flow of traffic while they wait to make turns across [...]

Michael Miller, of the Toledo Free Press is filling in for Kevin Milliken on Eye on Toledo on WSPD. He is right now at this moment interviewing Santa Claus! I have to say that Santa is pretty impressive and listening to some of the phone calls with the children was cool.
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