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Bands to play for the Bulldog Foundation in Rossford - 2025-08-11T04:00:00Z
ROSSFORD — The Bands for Bulldogs Music Festival will be held Aug. 17 from 1 to 6 p.m.

Even on cool summer days, leaving pets in parked cars can be deadly - 2025-08-11T11:14:12Z
Even on a cool summer day, leaving a pet in a parked car can be deadly.

BGSU social media campaign wins award, increases campus visits - 2025-08-11T11:11:15Z
BOWLING GREEN — Social media can be a powerful tool to increase visibility of a business or, in this case, a university campus.

1 dead, 4 injured in crash on State Rt. 66 - 2025-08-10T22:43:48Z
FAYETTE, Ohio — One person was killed and three others injured in a roll-over crash Sunday in Fulton County.

3 injured in crash on Manhattan near I-280 - 2025-08-11T00:16:04Z
Three people were injured Sunday in a crash on East Manhattan Boulevard as a driver was trying to make a U-turn, police said.

Festival of India celebrates food and culture - 2025-08-10T21:37:55Z
The smell of samosa, vegetable biryani, and masala dosa wafted in the air at Centennial Terrace in Sylvania as hundreds of people ate and enjoyed Indian music and dancing.

Photo Gallery: 14th Annual Barrio Latino Art Festival - 2025-08-10T21:10:14Z
The 14th Annual Barrio Latino Art Festival took place at Nuestra Gente in Toledo on August 9. Click the image above to view the full gallery.

Inclusive playground opens Thursday at Sylvania school - 2025-08-10T21:03:31Z
The Sylvania community is invited to the grand opening and a ribbon cutting Thursday of an inclusive and accessible playground at Stranahan Elementary School.

BGSU and UF's partnership program sees first cohort graduate from BGSU - 2025-08-10T19:34:38Z
BOWLING GREEN — Benjamin Buathier was initially uncertain what college he wanted to attend following his high school graduation.

Missing autistic man's body recovered from Maumee - 2025-08-10T17:56:38Z
The body of a 19-year-old Toledo disabled man who had been reported missing was recovered from the Maumee River, the family of Andreas Madrigal said.

Road Warrior: Work starts on Secor/Laskey intersection rebuild - 2025-08-10T18:35:06Z
The most aggravating phase of rebuilding Secor Road between Laskey and Alexis roads starts Monday at the Laskey intersection.

Ohio Republicans eye congressional redistricting advantage - 2025-08-10T11:16:09Z
COLUMBUS — Here we go again.

31-year-old man dies from gunfire - 2025-08-09T11:39:49Z
One man died and another victim was wounded from gunfire just before 1 a.m. Saturday in the 630 block of E. Central Avenue in Toledo.

Maumee summer fair supports, promotes tradition and local business owners - 2025-08-09T17:24:05Z
Fashioning a colorful bandana and a pair of white pants stamped with a black fish, a thrift vendor was ready to greet the incoming rush of shoppers.

McClure man dies in fatal motorcycle crash - 2025-08-10T01:51:50Z
A 67-year-old McClure, Ohio, man died Saturday after his motorcycle collided with a car in Lucas County.

Photo Gallery: 4th Annual Glass City JazzFest - 2025-08-09T22:22:26Z
The 4th Annual Glass City JazzFest took place at the Glass City Metropark in downtown Toledo on August 9.

As anti-immigrant discourse rises, Toledo sends a clear message: ‘You belong here’ - 2025-08-09T13:00:00Z
Nearly a year after a nationally televised debate claim stoked fear across Ohio’s immigrant communities, Toledo advocates say the impact is still being felt and that the stakes are rising.

Coroner's rulings: 8/9 - 2025-08-09T04:00:00Z
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Daily Log: 8/9 - 2025-08-09T04:00:00Z
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Perrysburg Twp. police levy, other taxes on Nov. 4 Wood County ballot - 2025-08-08T18:59:49Z
Perrysburg Township voters will see two levies for police protection on the Nov. 4 ballot.

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Editorial: Electric future for Toledo - 2025-08-11T04:00:00Z
Ohio electric bills are noticeably, even painfully, high this summer. There’s more demand for power than adequate supply of electricity. That’s an obvious signal that northwest Ohio’s energy abundance must be turned into power plants as an urgent economic development priority.

Editorial: Intel must quit Chinese - 2025-08-10T04:00:00Z
A U.S. senator’s discovery that the CEO of America’s largest home-grown computer chip maker has deep ties to China raises profound questions about the direction of Intel, whose company is of critical importance to Ohio.

Editorial: Hope needs focus - 2025-08-10T04:00:00Z
HOPE Toledo needs to pick a path.

Editorial: Bring back E. Toledo grant, Sen. Husted - 2025-08-09T04:00:00Z
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted (R., Ohio) believes that Toledo was not negatively affected by the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Editorial: Retail crime needs task force - 2025-08-08T04:00:00Z
The creation of a Northwest Ohio Retail Crime Task Force is a smart response to the organized crime that is targeting greater Toledo.

Editorial: Tenants’ safety feared in failing buildings - 2025-08-07T04:00:00Z
The city of Toledo must insist on higher standards of building maintenance than is evident in the conditions that residents of Executive Towers are experiencing.

Editorial: Fund Toledo growth on Rossford’s lead - 2025-08-07T03:41:25Z
Rossford’s economic development success is a good example for Toledo to try to emulate with the renegotiated Joint Economic Development Zone, or JEDZ, between the two cities.

Editorial: Rigged in BLS’ future - 2025-08-06T04:00:00Z
If there’s one thing Donald Trump knows better than any president in United States history it is “rigged” numbers. The President fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday, saying the monthly jobs report was “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans and ME look bad” in an announcement on his Truth Social account.

Editorial: ‘Prop’ bets fuel suspicions - 2025-08-05T04:00:00Z
Gov. Mike DeWine’s call for a ban on prop sports betting in Ohio is a common sense policy change that the state Casino Control Commission should enact immediately.

Editorial: Gordie Howe — wow - 2025-08-04T04:00:00Z
Trump tariffs may keep the Gordie Howe International Bridge, set to open this fall, from providing the international trade traffic Toledo expected to spur economic development but it did bring the Ohio Conference of Freight back to the city that created it, Toledo.

Editorial: Crime down, sort of - 2025-08-03T04:00:00Z
Reducing homicides in the city of Toledo was the goal of the holistic crime prevention program adopted by the Kapszukiewicz administration.

Editorial: UT has new vision - 2025-08-03T04:00:00Z
Newly installed president James Holloway has a good grasp on what he needs to accomplish to provide successful leadership for the University of Toledo, and he plans to stay in the position long enough to complete his mission.

Editorial: Protect Toledo water - 2025-08-02T04:00:00Z
If safe drinking water for more than 40 million people, including 11 million citizens in the Lake Erie watershed, is not a high government spending priority, political priorities are not anchored in reality.

Editorial: Kaptur vs. Trump - 2025-08-01T04:00:00Z
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) is using her post on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and detailed understanding of the law governing federal programs to push for grounds to challenge the Trump Administration in court.

Editorial: Iconic brand lifts city - 2025-07-31T04:00:00Z
Of all the success stories for which Toledo is known, there can’t be any with more commercial and fan appeal than the Jeep.

Editorial: Intel Ohio plan needs white knight - 2025-07-31T03:51:17Z
The biggest economic development project in Ohio history is about the slowest economic development project in the United States and the best example of the primacy of the market.

Editorial: Toledo’s advantage as headquarters’ site - 2025-07-30T04:00:11Z
Headquarter corporate communities are the gold standard in economic development. Toledo has a small new corporate headquarter company in One SeaGate that should be celebrated for the message it sends on the city’s economic vitality.

Editorial: FCC damages journalism - 2025-07-29T04:00:00Z
The $8 billion takeover of CBS broadcast network owner Paramount Global by film and TV production company Skydance raises the troubling specter of the Federal Communications Commission as the ministry of truth.

Editorial: Prioritize pedestrian safety at crossings - 2025-07-28T04:00:00Z
A city of Toledo initiative to install high-tech pedestrian crossings at four locations will make the city safer and advance the goal of fewer motor vehicle crash injuries and deaths.

Editorial: Retirement investment mistake - 2025-07-28T04:00:00Z
President Trump will one day be remembered as an accomplice to fraud if he signs an executive order directing the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Labor Department to give employers “guidance” on including private assets in their 401(k) plans.

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Shribman: Newton’s third law rules Washington politics - 2025-08-10T04:00:00Z
At a time when questions about the rule of law are in the air, it is important to remember that Donald Trump hasn’t overturned Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, which rules Washington, just as powerfully as it rules physical phenomena.

Walton: Did ‘Grandpa George’ sign Declaration of Independence? - 2025-08-10T04:00:00Z
FOR YEARS a frequent topic of discussion among my many relatives named Walton has been the back story about one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a lawyer from Georgia named George Walton. My brothers and I wondered if we could we possibly be descendants of such an important figure in American history.

Lessenberry: Michigan’s mental health failure behind crime - 2025-08-07T03:34:41Z
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — If it sounded like everyone’s nightmare, that’s because it was. Late in the afternoon of July 26, a man at a Walmart in Traverse City pulled out a knife and began randomly stabbing people. Eleven were badly injured before a man with a gun held him at bay in the parking lot till police arrived.

Hussain: Rabbis: Starving Gazans is terrible assault on Jewish ethics - 2025-08-06T04:00:00Z
Forced mass starvation, just as mass murder, has always been a stain on humanity. Kings and tyrants in a bygone era would lay siege to an enemy fort or a city and force the occupants to eventually lay down arms and leave their fate to the mercy of the invaders. Many times, massacre of men, women, and children would ensue after the surrender. Hunger, starvation, and massacre were the common themes of warfare in a more tribal and savage times in human history. There were no guard rails and no universal code of conduct during warfare to prevent cruel savagery.

Shribman: Who’s a hero during age of Trump? - 2025-08-03T04:00:00Z
JOHN ADAMS and Samuel Adams are in, but John Quincy Adams isn’t. Alan Shepard and John Glenn are in, but Gus Grissom isn’t. Betsy Ross is in, but Ross Perot isn’t. John Wayne is in, but Wayne Newton isn’t. Andrew Jackson is in, but Michael Jackson and Jackson Pollock aren’t. Henry Ford is there, but Ralph Nader isn’t.

Lessenberry: Lobbyist for civility and justice cleared veteran’s name - 2025-07-31T03:57:06Z
LANSING, Mich. — You don’t often meet a lobbyist who became a civil liberties hero. Lobbyists, after all, are people who work for special interests and try to persuade legislators to vote their way.

Walton: Me and you need to talk — or at least sing - 2025-07-27T04:00:00Z
If music is the international language, some of the folks in the song-writing community need a little remedial work on subject-verb agreement. And double negatives. Singular vs. plural too. Tense also, past and present. The pluperfect subjunctive? I shudder at the abuse.

Shribman: Political downward mobility has willing candidates - 2025-07-27T04:00:00Z
Andrew Cuomo, candidate for mayor of New York City, meet John Carney, mayor of Wilmington, Del.

Lessenberry: Campaign dollars or ethnic appeal? - 2025-07-24T04:00:00Z
DETROIT — Some eyebrows were raised last week when it turned out that two-term U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, a Detroit Democrat, has raised nearly $1.8 million dollars in new campaign funds, not from donations, but by investing in cryptocurrency.

Hussain: U.S. ambassador Huckabee and Palestinians - 2025-07-23T03:30:03Z
RECENTLY, JEWISH terrorist settlers in the West Bank attacked Palestinian homes and burned a Christian church. They also killed two Palestinians, one of them an American citizen from Tampa.

Shribman: Time is right for questions of character - 2025-07-20T04:00:00Z
Can it be a coincidence, or merely a case of synchronicity, that in the age of Trump — a decade-long epoch that began in 2015 — several serious, high-profile books have been written about presidential character?

Lessenberry: Jimmy Hoffa’s life overshadowed by his death - 2025-07-17T04:00:00Z
TROY, Mich. — The old landline rang shrilly at 6 in the morning in his wife’s family cabin in Traverse City, where the young lawyer, his wife, Ginger, and their two little boys were fast asleep.

Walton: Forsooth! Why dost thou taketh unnecessary risks? - 2025-07-13T04:00:00Z
Faithful readers out there (and yes, God bless ’em, there are still a few) know that in my retirement years I have embraced a mantra that serves me well. Two words: lighten up. For the first 42 years of my career in newspaper journalism, I had to be serious. When I retired from full-time employment at The Blade in 2007 and started this column, I had an epiphany.

Shribman: America’s periodic reckoning begins - 2025-07-13T04:00:00Z
Now begins the run-up to an important marker in our national life, one that will spark contemplation and controversy.

Lessenberry: Former governors defend democracy - 2025-07-10T03:50:13Z
PENTWATER, Mich. — For most of their lives, Jim Blanchard and John Engler have been bitter political rivals. Probably the biggest upset in Michigan political history came in 1990, when John Engler, a very conservative Republican who was majority leader of the Michigan state Senate, defeated Mr. Blanchard, who was running for a third term and who polls showed was cruising to an easy victory.

Hussain: An ‘uncivilized’ communist foreigner as next N.Y.C. mayor? - 2025-07-09T15:57:04Z
THE STUNNING victory of a bright new face in the New York City primary election caused tremors in both Republican and Democratic establishments. It was just too much for guardians of the two major political parties to swallow.

To the editor: Michigan’s on the move - 2025-07-06T04:00:00Z
PETOSKEY, Mich. — The sun is out, the lake is glistening, the strawberries are bright red and summer-sweet. Golfers and anglers are busy, cyclists are on the move, brats are on the barbecue. This is Michigan at its best.

Lessenberry: Questioning election results becoming routine - 2025-07-03T04:00:00Z
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Throughout the entire Biden administration, Donald Trump and many of his supporters claimed that the 2020 election had been stolen from him. He never conceded defeat, even though he had lost by 7 million votes and a decisive Electoral College margin of 306 to 232. Despite dozens of court rulings upholding the election results, and studies that failed to turn up any evidence of fraud, he never admitted that President Joe Biden had been legitimately elected.

Shribman: What to do about War Powers Act - 2025-06-29T04:00:00Z
The Ford Edsel. New Coke. The Sony Betamax. Theranos. Google Glass. Yugoslavia. The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies. The Breakfast at Tiffany’s musical. The War Powers Act.

Walton: Eight days in a different time and place - 2025-06-29T04:00:00Z
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” — John Muir

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