Glass City Jungle

This in via email:
Cheryl Catlin Announces Candidacy for Toledo Public Schools Board of Education
Toledo, Ohio. Cheryl Catlin will hold a press conference to declare her candidacy for the Board of Education, Toledo Public Schools.
As a community and education advocate, I have researched areas that Toledo Public Schools can explore and implement to improve the [...]

A few days ago over on Toledo Talk there was a thread on the topic of the Dorr Street Brownstones about trying to discover who the mystery developer for that project was after a news story on WNWO. All we were able to determine was the name, “Dorr Street Brownstones Corp”. [...]

If you thought Johnny Hildo would mention the video that Karen Shanahan made, you’d be disappointed. He/she/they did focus on a District 2 City Council candidate, Joe Kidd. A small bit of what those who make up the Hildo penned:
Kidd has recently emerged from the depths of filth and depravity, i.e., Detroit, to [...]

I received this information via email urging people to visit Toledo Jobs With Justice & Interfaith Worker Justice Coalition to learn more information about a hearing being held tonight:
The Healthcare Access and Affordability Committee has been taking testimony on a variety of topics from interested groups since February. The committee, along with members of [...]

In reading this article in the Blade entitled, Judge freezes city’s co-pay increase something struck me as not being clear.
If as the article states:
The city planned a $5 increase — from $10 to $15 — effective tomorrow for the payment that members of American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 7 make [...]

As the media has reported on the Village of Ottawa Hills creating a scenario where it appears there would be few if any places sexual offenders could live within that Village:
the Ottawa Hills ordinance prohibits a registered sex offender from living within 1,000 feet of a “school; a licensed preschool or day-care facility; Geresy Field; [...]

Who is the she? That’s for you to decide. She Should Run is a project of the Women’s Campaign Forum. I highly recommend stopping by and visiting the site and if you know a woman (who is pro-choice) that you think should run for office? Nominate them.
The website also has some [...]

We’ve been hearing about the different formulations that City Council in Toledo could be, an article by Tom Troy in the Blade goes deeper into this getting reaction from Council members and the community. Personally I don’t think 4 district councilpersons would be enough, I think if they are going to go to 8 [...]

What do those three have in common? If you watched today’s Conklin and Company you’ll know where I’m going with this. Chris Redfern, the head of the Ohio Democratic Party was up first. In talking to Lee Conklin, Redfern made it very clear that felt that the division was due to personalities [...]

Regardless of how I or anyone feels for or against the recall the Mayor attempt, what Tom Morrissey reports happened to him on Friday night should not have happened. In his own words via email:
Friday, July 27, 2007, I went by myself to the Lucas County Fair to collect signatures for the Recall Carty [...]

I did not want to include the Publisher’s Statement that Thomas Pounds wrote in this week’s Toledo Free Press in my weekly summary below, because it relates to another scenario raised in the comments and I wanted to highlight in a bit more detail some of the thoughts that Mr. Pounds shared. What struck [...]

The famous Lisa featured in the cover story of this week’s Toledo Free Press is none other than, Lisa Simpson, who while I fully admit I’m not a regular watcher of the show, would be my favorite character if I had to select one. Michael Miller relates two recent situations where his Rubik’s Cube [...]

I read earlier in the week on Historymike’s blog that the Bill White Bunch was possibly planning another visit to Toledo. The Blade confirms that someone by the name of Justin Boyer gave the date as August 17th.
I support free speech, yet I personally think the reason why Toledo ends up as [...]

I can understand the reason for a local government to require as an employment condition that you live within the City Limits. As is often said with other issues, no one is forcing people to accept the job if they don’t want to live within the City. While it would be best to [...]

For some reason I was in a Collective Soul mood last night…

Details on yesterday as well as who won.

I will do my usual summary of what I found most interesting in this week’s edition of the Toledo Free Press, later today; but I wanted to share with those of you who should stop by here for this week’s column as well as an update that I’m very shocked to report that Glass [...]

Many have speculated as to who would be the next chair of the Lucas County Democratic Party, a name that is being mentioned is Ron Rothenbuler, who is the Oregon Democratic Party Ward Chairman and the regional director for Carpenters’ Union Local 1138. It’s not clear though if he would be the “unity” candidate [...]

Tomorrow is the big Dragon Boat event over by the Docks, I will not be paddling (thankfully I say with a smile) but my husband and one of my daughters will be on the team for his employer. This is scheduled to last from 8 to 4 p.m. so if you want to see [...]

I heard about the meeting yesterday that was almost but not quite secretive, with Chris Redfern the Head of the Ohio Democratic Party and elected Democrats from the Lucas County Democratic Party. It’s being reported that 48 elected officials from municipal, county, village, and school board levels of government attended. There are [...]

Well done update/summary of Council President Rob Ludeman and the accusations made against Councilmen McNamara and Craig by Tom Troy in the Blade this morning. Some of the same conclusions made here yesterday is being reported with additional information:
It was not clear how either the charter or the city ethics policy applied. Council is [...]

I’ve been running a full analytics for enough time to be able to give those of you interested in the numbers a somewhat accurate look at how GCJ stacks up by the numbers. From a visitor standpoint from June 25 to July 25 – 35,225 – the average amount of time a visitor [...]

At face value the request doesn’t sound that unreasonable:
“I’m asking for the names, the titles, the salaries and what the department finds who salaries and benefits are being charged to.”
Yet from the sounds if it, the audit being requested by Councilman Frank Szollosi is stated to require at least two weeks. Frank has been [...]

I decided to take a look to see how things are being worded through our local media as to Council President Rob Ludeman accusing Councilmen Joe McNamara and Mike Craig of violating the rules of Council and the City Charter and the question of is it wrong or is it baseless.
Fox Toledo:
Though Madigan [...]

This in as breaking news from the Blade, Ludeman charges ethics violations against 2 council members:

Mr. Ludeman said he took offense at councilmen Joe McNamara and Mike Craig alluding to Mr. Cichy’s run for city council at the meeting Tuesday.

In this week’s edition of The Sojourner’s Truth the editorial, This Strikes Us focuses on the recent Blade coverage of Michael Ashford, questioning if one of the underlying reasons the word “violations” was next to Michael Ashford’s photo is related to his race. The editorial gives examples of situations where it’s felt there [...]

As posted over on Swamp Bubbles earlier this evening:
Judge Mike Goulding proudly announces that the Toledo Fire Fighters Union, Local 92 has endorsed his candidacy to keep his seat on the bench at Toledo Municipal Court.
Also, Judge Goulding is proud to have earned the support of an important branch of the AFL-CIO, the International Union [...]

Toledo City Council Candidate for District 2, Karen Shanahan would like to know…

If you are interested in what Johnny wrote this week? He’s focusing on District 6
I have to say, this video made me laugh…kudos to the Shanahan campaign on this one.

Lots of great posts this weekend including some new participants at the Carnival of Ohio Politics so stop on by and see what some of Ohio’s best bloggers are focusing on this week.

To make it easier for those of you looking for what Dave Schulz and COBRA have suggested, it can be found here.
Dave Schulz will be on WSPD’s Eye On Toledo, with Kevin Milliken, at 6 p.m.

This statement from Joe McNamara was received via email:
Yesterday, City Council voted by a margin of 2-1 to place a Balanced Budget Amendment to the City Charter on the November ballot. Toledo taxpayers deserve accountability for their money and now they will have the chance to demand it at the ballot box.
Today the Mayor [...]