Glass City Jungle

There’s a balance between neighborhoods and industry and when you read the Blade’s article, Dead deals put property in limbo it’s a great chance to take a look at how neighborhoods influence and are affected by what happens. This particular property is not too far from where we live and one of my daughter’s friends [...]

This press release in from the office of Toledo City Councilman Joe McNamara:
Toledo City Councilman Joe McNamara
Will hold a press conference
TODAY
Along with officials from TARTA On
Ohio House Bill 480
“Creating and protecting jobs should be every elected officials first priority. Regional cooperation is key to economic prosperity in NW [...]

Several of the articles in this week’s Sojourner’s Truth deal with the anger and America’s racial divide. Starting with This Strikes Us that writes about how the discussion on race is beginning because of Obama’s speech and some of the anger on both sides. I believe the discussion on race was happening prior [...]

I do believe we live in an issue driven society where many voters place more importance on one issue as a reason for them to vote for a candidate or to vote. That said, it’s entirely possible that was was written in today’s Blade by Jim Provenance on the impact of the Healthy Family [...]

I confess I am not a fan of major league baseball, I’m an NFL fan, however I am a fan of the Mud Hens and when given the opportunity to watch them play it’s always been a great experience, whether back in the days when they played at the Lucas County Rec Center and I [...]

A few days ago Shaun Hegarty reported for Fox Toledo that 13,000 filled out interest cards. Today’s Blade confirms that stating that at least, 6,000 will do the next step of a complete application.
The starting salary for a firefighter is $36,470.
Currently, there are about 490 uniformed firefighters.
Chief Wolever said that number [...]

I was sitting here reading this article and pleased that the Mayor had decided to not veto any of the budget items amended by Toledo City Council since we can all have a pretty good idea what would have been changed would have been the start date for the police class or the money [...]

In today’s Blade article written by Ignazio Messina entitled, Council: Mayor too slow with records we learn that the list of staff on the 22nd floor was finally released and the Blade provides a copy of that online for you to look at.
You’ll notice the name: Katerina Toth, in the IT Department listed as [...]

Toledo City Councilwoman Lindsay Webb from District 6 has released the first of her quarterly newsletters to constituents of her district and to other interested citizens today. To see what the newsletter looks like can be done by clicking on the image:

Some of the points of interest taken from the newsletter that are not [...]

This in via email from the office of Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak:
COMMISSIONER WOZNIAK TO HOST REGIONAL LAKE ERIE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT
Event Includes Dialogue With Lt. Gov. Fisher, Brookings Institute
Commissioners, Mayors, and economic development specialists from every county that borders Lake Erie will come together for an important regional economic development summit on [...]

The Blade coverage on this is somewhat disappointing since part of what is written is inaccurate. First, the computer the emails and the items that were considered pornography were not found on the computer that was in use during the time period that the felony charges that will be dropped were stated to have [...]

It would have been cool to have been one of the top ten women bloggers picked in the nation, however, while I was not one of those selected, one of my favorite women bloggers from Ohio, Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks was picked as one of the top ten. So show [...]

This in via email from the Toledo Free Press:
Events coordinator chosen
Justin R. Kalmes
Toledo Free Press
The City of Toledo has offered a part-time position to Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s former spokeswoman to coordinate summer entertainment at Promenade Park, the woman offered the job confirmed March 27. Paulette Huber, who served as Finkbeiner’s public information officer during his [...]

This in from the offices of the Lucas County Commissioners:
COMMISSIONERS TO WELCOME JOB SEEKERS TO JOB FAIR 2008
Members of the Board of Lucas County Commissioners will be on-hand to welcome job seekers to the 2008 Job Fair, sponsored by The SOURCE, OMMC, and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, on Friday, March 28, [...]

The most recent edition of the Toledo Journal has an article entitled, ‘MOVE TO THE BACK OF THE BUS’: Municipal Court Clerk Bowman English disrespected by newly elected councilman that points out how contentious some of the discussion was when it came to the budget this year on the topic of funding for Criminal Justice. [...]

Well, it appears when you read the lastest edition of the Toledo City Paper that those who make up the Hildo have decided to put their poison pens aside for now, the last Hildo column written on March 19th is still online but when you click on an article entitled, “Toledo City Council plans meetings [...]

One of the standards of political passion seems to be what the “other guy” did that was wrong is always somehow “worse” or “different” than what your preferred candidate did wrong. Sometimes if you are not passionately attached to either candidate it can be a fun experience to watch if you look at it [...]

While I don’t discount the importance of the state requirements that a City like Toledo has to present a balanced budget, I think almost everyone involved knows as they are cutting funds from here, and adding funds to there, that what is approved as a “final” budget is never a final budget. The budget [...]

Those of you who know me or pay attention to when I spend the most of my time writing, I’m a night owl as opposed to a morning person. However…tomorrow morning around 7:15 a.m. I’ll be on Troy Neff’s radio show (1230 AM WCWA) for my first time appearance on his show.
If there’s a [...]

Meeting tonight was very well attended and things are starting to roll as far as getting organized for Tent City. The next scheduled meeting is April 23, 2008, I’ll be posting a reminder closer to that date. If you aren’t really into the whole planning aspect there are lots of ways you can [...]

Ben Keeler from the Keeler Political Report took his turn at putting together the Carnival of Ohio Politics Number 110. He did a fantastic job though the picture he selected is just a bit…scary…

In my continuing coverage or some might even call “obsession” with trying to get as much information out there for those of you who either don’t have cable or were not able to watch the almost 6 hour City Council meeting, I’ve been re-watching it today and taking some video clips from yesterday that might [...]

While I finish doing my little video montage reporting action, what’s the media saying about what happened tonight? First we head over to Fox Toledo, where Shaun Hegarty was one of those who was at Toledo City Council for the budget/trash marathon session. Fox has the most detailed coverage of the story as [...]

There is no way I’m going to be able to cover all of the almost 6 hours that happened, so I’m going to focus on some of the key points and the key exchanges that happened tonight. First the suprise amendment that Councilman George Sarantou put forward that would have kept the $5.50/$3 for [...]

I have no idea of what the record is for the longest Toledo City Council meeting in history but today could very well be it. The meeting has been going on for almost four hours. There’s lots to discuss but the main thing that many are probably wondering about is the trash fee. [...]

In an article posted on the Toledo Journal website dated March 18th, TPS officials admit failure to support black businesses Jack Ford raises concerns that it appears in reading the article that TPS also acknowledges that have been raised by members of the Urban Coalition and other community groups:

Judge Tim Kuhlman was on the Troy Neff show this morning responding to some of what was said yesterday by Toledo District 2 Councilman D. Michael Collins, the audio is here. What was interesting was Judge Kuhlman stated from what he knew not all of the issues related to the Criminal Justice budget [...]

One thing I’ve learned about blogging city topics over the past two years, one of the issues that gets people the most heated is related to trash, no matter if it’s elimination of alley pick up, automation, etc., it’s one of the basic City services that people spend quite a bit of time focusing on. [...]

Toledo City Councilman for District 2, D. Michael Collins says he’s going to vote no on the City Budget as a protest because of the scheduled police class not taking place as was previously promised and concerns over the way the negotiations went on the Criminal Justice budget. The interview took place on the [...]

In reading Streets not on Toledo repave list aren’t forgotten, city vows the reality is they may not be forgotten but most likely it will be years before they are dealt with. As we discovered during the course of Toledo City Councilman Mike Craig’s discussion on the issue of streets in last week’s agenda [...]