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Daily Log: 12/10 - 2025-12-10T05:00:00Z
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4 local agencies get state grants to fight homelessness - 2025-12-09T14:30:24Z
Four Lucas County organizations will receive state grants to help fight housing instability and homelessness.

Get pet photos with Santa - 2025-12-09T14:22:21Z
People can get pictures of their pets at the Santa Claus & Paws fund-raiser for Mobile Meals Pet Food Program.

‘Happy Holidays Toledo’ artist to give holiday concert in Ottawa County - 2025-12-09T14:42:47Z
GENOA, Ohio — Gospel singer Sheri LaFontaine, known as the Golden Voice of Toledo, will perform a Christmas concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Genoa Trinity United Methodist Church.

Oregon man pleads no contest for pregnant woman’s death in U.S. 23 crash - 2025-12-09T20:10:19Z
MONROE — An Oregon man is scheduled for sentencing next month after pleading no contest to two felony charges arising from a U.S. 23 crash that killed a pregnant woman.

Paws and Whiskers gets larger facility for cat shelter - 2025-12-10T00:45:04Z
Paws and Whiskers, Toledo’s only nonprofit feline, no-kill shelter, has had to turn away homeless cats because it is frequently at full capacity.

Photo Gallery: Families take to snow-covered Glass City Metropark for sledding - 2025-12-09T23:26:46Z
Families blasted through the snow enjoying the sledding hill on Tuesday at the Glass City Metropark in East Toledo.

City of Toledo asks council to approve funding for warming centers - 2025-12-09T22:38:06Z
With the first few snowfalls of the winter season already coating streets and sidewalks, the city administration is asking Toledo City Council to approve funding to support warming centers.

Citing rising foster-care costs, officials dip into children services’ reserves - 2025-12-09T22:01:34Z
Lucas County Children Services is continuing to pay the price of federal foster-care reforms and will draw $1.5 million from its reserves to cover the increased costs.

Michigan’s new pot tax still a go after judge denies injunction to block it - 2025-12-09T20:04:32Z
A Court of Claims judge has declined to block a 24 percent wholesale tax on Michigan’s marijuana less than a month before it’s scheduled to go into effect but allowed the cannabis industry’s challenge to the tax to proceed.

Senate sends governor bill banning intoxicating hemp, disbursing marijuana tax revenue - 2025-12-09T19:46:33Z
COLUMBUS — Legislation prohibiting the sale of most intoxicating hemp products from retail store shelves and making a number of changes to the adult-use marijuana law is on its way to the governor’s desk.

City pauses leaf pickup, monitors road conditions as snow falls - 2025-12-09T19:31:52Z
The city of Toledo’s leaf collection efforts are temporarily paused so crews and equipment can be reassigned to snow and ice operations.

Annual Christmas Cruz to honor fallen Toledo police officer - 2025-12-09T13:00:00Z
The annual Christmas Cruz in memory of Toledo police officer Anthony Dia will take place Saturday.

Waterville City Council approves 6-month data center moratorium - 2025-12-09T03:21:34Z
Waterville City Council unanimously approved a six-month moratorium on new data center construction within the city limits on Monday night.

Rotary Club of Toledo donates a total of $10,000 to 3 nonprofits - 2025-12-08T23:28:12Z
The Rotary Club of Toledo Foundation on Monday presented emergency grants totaling $10,000 to three local nonprofit organizations addressing the surge in food assistance needs across northwest Ohio.

Monroe parent files federal complaint over trans athlete - 2025-12-08T21:46:15Z
MONROE — A Monroe High School parent has filed a complaint after learning that a transgender student used a female locker room and competed on a girls team during volleyball season.

Faculty art exhibit showcases talent of artists from 6 colleges - 2025-12-08T23:10:34Z
A joint exhibition featuring the artwork of faculty members from six northwest Ohio colleges runs through Saturday in Perrysburg.

Latta urges grid modernization with small nuclear reactors, expedited permitting - 2025-12-08T22:48:16Z
COLUMBUS — Modernizing the power grid is necessary to ensure enough energy is generated to keep up with the demands of data centers, advanced manufacturing, and other growing sectors of the economy, said U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (R., Bowling Green).

Toledo Public Schools considering sweeping cuts and changes - 2025-12-08T22:20:41Z
Toledo Public Schools is bracing for millions in state and local funding cuts beginning in 2026, a shortfall that district leaders say will force sweeping changes in how schools operate.

Jones files ‘serious mental illness’ notice, which could block death penalty in Kei’mani case - 2025-12-08T20:42:10Z
Defense lawyers for Darnell Jones have formally announced his intent to assert a mental-illness claim that would disqualify him from any death sentence arising from the alleged murder of Kei’mani Latigue.

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Editorial: Reality cannot be ignored - 2025-12-10T04:45:00Z
Ignored warnings of “chaos” on the border by President Joe Biden set the stage for the draconian enforcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with National Guard troops on patrol in the cities ICE targets.

Editorial: Michigan court should wait - 2025-12-09T05:00:00Z
The Michigan Supreme Court is considering a rule that would bar civil arrests in state and local courts. It’s an obvious message to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they aren’t welcome to show up in state court looking for illegal resident suspects. It must be a message because the problem is nearly nonexistent in Michigan.

Editorial: Hold Jack Smith inquest in public - 2025-12-08T05:00:00Z
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s demand that former U.S. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith give testimony in private to Mr. Jordan’s committee investigating the weaponization of the Justice Department is an odd one.

Editorial: Mull data-nomics - 2025-12-07T05:00:00Z
The opportunity of having a few data centers in greater Toledo is being greeted with overheated opposition fueled largely by misunderstanding of the water and electrical demands and lack of appreciation for the economic benefits.

Editorial: Minnesota fraud unsurprising - 2025-12-07T05:00:00Z
That Minnesota state government was oblivious to a fraud which the New York Times described as “staggering in its scale and brazenness” should not have come as a surprise to anyone following Ohio’s teacher retirement system brouhaha.

Editorial: Pep up downtown - 2025-12-06T05:00:00Z
To those of us impatient for action, economic development in downtown Toledo appears to move at a speed that would make a glacier’s advance look fast.

Editorial: Let NIL stand, keep Ohio on par - 2025-12-05T05:00:00Z
State lawmakers trying to ban name, image, and likeness payments as a possibility for Ohio high school athletes should find more productive work.

Editorial: Rein in pardon abuse - 2025-12-04T05:00:00Z
President Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president for running a drug trafficking operation into the United States raises, to an extent that can’t be ignored anymore, the question whether there is any consistent principle other than to reward personal loyalty and score political points.

Editorial: No one won Head Start fiasco - 2025-12-04T04:45:00Z
The recent U.S. government shutdown left many Americans in the lurch, and among them were many families who depend on Head Start services on a daily basis.

Editorial: Family farm dilemma - 2025-12-03T05:00:00Z
The message from a Metamora farmer in Blade business reporter Jim Trumm’s front page Sunday story on the uncertainty facing a northwest Ohio family farm — “each farmer is going to lose money on every acre this year” — is a sobering thought indeed.

Editorial: Work together on growth - 2025-12-02T04:00:00Z
JobsOhio President and CEO J.P. Nauseef takes exception to The Blade Editorial Board’s characterization of northwest Ohio population decline, citing success in attracting prime working age adults between 25 and 44 to the state.

Editorial: Holiday Market a vibrant hit - 2025-12-01T04:52:56Z
Toledo’s first holiday market, held weekend before last, attracted large crowds and was successful for the vendors who filled the 15 portable huts that were set up in Levis Square.

Editorial: Justice wheels falling off - 2025-11-30T05:00:00Z
The dismissal of the two indictments sought by President Trump’s Justice Department last week to settle old political scores reveals the workings of a federal department that can’t shoot straight.

To the editor: Lessons from Toledo’s eatery history - 2025-11-30T05:00:00Z
If you haven’t bought and read Table for None, Lost Eateries of Toledo, by Tedd Long and Mark Snyder, and you’re a longtime Toledoan, you’re in for a treat that will jog both your memory and taste buds. The authors have chronicled the history, backstories, personalities, cuisines, and even old menus from most of the Toledo areas now departed signature restaurants. What a journey.

Editorial: Pastor acting his part - 2025-11-30T04:45:00Z
The turmoil being experienced in the Anthony Wayne School District over the activism of a Christian pastor is a local manifestation of the growing determination of militant Christianity nationally.

Editorial: No Russian reward - 2025-11-29T05:00:00Z
The Ukraine peace plan crafted by the Trump White House and Russian envoys is an attempt to force capitulation by Ukraine to Vladimir Putin’s invasion by stopping the flow of weapons and technology to Ukraine.

Editorial: DeWine sees light - 2025-11-28T05:00:00Z
It’s as refreshing as it is rare to see a major political leader admit a big mistake, so we give Gov. Mike DeWine credit for coming to the realization that legalized sports betting in Ohio was ill-advised.

Editorial: A time for gratitude - 2025-11-27T05:00:00Z
Thanksgiving is routinely pushed aside to give the more commercial Christmas an early start, but this quintessential American holiday holds deep ties on the national psyche.

Editorial: Arts community wins coin toss - 2025-11-27T04:45:00Z
The choice of a handsome Old West End building to house the American Numismatic Society’s relocated museum from New York City shows a reassuring vote of confidence in the city from an outside perspective.

Editorial: Data center supporters AWOL - 2025-11-26T04:45:00Z
The Regional Growth Partnership of Northwest Ohio and the Lucas County Economic Development Corp. put on back-to-back community forums on data centers last Wednesday in Oregon and Thursday at Anthony Wayne High School.

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Shribman: Canadians have already answered this question - 2025-12-07T05:00:00Z
MONTREAL — We know their names. Some of them are Margaret “Pearl” Fraser of New Glasgow, N.S.; Mary Agnes McKenzie and Carola Douglas of Toronto; Alexina Dussault of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec; and Margaret Fortescue of York Factory, Man. Among them was Minnie Follette, whose portrait hangs in Age of Sail Heritage Centre and Museum in Port Greville, N.S.

Hussain: Religious discriminations in U.S. - 2025-12-04T14:04:56Z
RECENTLY TEXAS Govdeclared a leading Muslim advocacy organization, the Council of American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, a foreign terrorist group. According to this declaration CAIR can no longer operate in Texas or purchase land in the state. He also banned another minor group, Muslim Brotherhood.

Lessenberry: Michigan to elect a new senator - 2025-12-04T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Two things about U.S. senators from Michigan in the modern era: They tend to be Democrats, and they stay in office a long time.

Walton: What’s your tipping point? Rules have changed - 2025-11-30T05:00:00Z
At the friendly neighborhood market where we buy our groceries, a sign by the door reminds us of a firm policy at the place: “No Tipping.” The message it conveys seems somehow counterintuitive. If ever there were folks who earned a tip, it is the young people who help customers get their cart of groceries out to the parking lot and loaded into their cars.

Shribman: As parties entrench, an impasse grows - 2025-11-30T05:00:00Z
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. — He helped supply the Continental Army during the early days of the American Revolution. He signed the Declaration of Independence. He shaped the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He was a member of the House of Representatives, a governor of Massachusetts, and vice president. He lent his name — perhaps the most mispronounced name in American history, even more so than Kamala — to the creative shaping of a congressional district we now call “gerrymandering.”

Lessenberry: Political experiment that didn’t work - 2025-11-27T05:00:00Z
LANSING — Happy Thanksgiving! May your turkey not be dry, and you and yours celebrate happily this year. But when the holiday is over, and government gets back to work, there’s something I won’t be thankful for: Term limits for Michigan’s elected officials.

Mills: How to humanely talk about economics - 2025-11-26T04:45:00Z
“I knew that of course most private-equity investors make the U.S. economy stronger,” the man wrote, a little indignantly. I’d come across the quote, from the City Journal in 2012, while looking for something else. It’s published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and prestigious enough for Barnes & Noble to sell it.

Shribman: In Netherlands, a lesson in American history - 2025-11-23T05:00:00Z
For nearly two years, the American Cemetery in Margraten, The Netherlands — solemn site of more than 8,300 graves of Americans who died freeing Europe from Nazi rule — displayed commemorative panels honoring the Black military personnel who fought for freedom abroad that they were denied at home.

Lessenberry: Michigan enables corruption - 2025-11-20T05:00:00Z
LANSING — Those of us who have lived most of our lives in big northern industrial states often think of places like Alabama and Mississippi as backward, and states like West Virginia and Louisiana as hotbeds of political corruption.

Hussain: Dick Cheney — a most powerful, controversial vice president - 2025-11-19T05:00:00Z
Dick Cheney, a polarizing figure in American politics, died recently. He left behind a legacy of public service mixed with self-righteous high-handedness.

Shribman: Building on declaration - 2025-11-16T05:00:00Z
WASHINGTON — In the next several days, Simon & Schuster will bring forth a little book, 7 inches tall and 5 inches wide, that should shake the country. It is called The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, and in its mere 67 pages, the author Walter Isaacson reminds us in a torrid time about the enduring values that define a troubled country.

Walton: It’s what you do know that can hurt you - 2025-11-16T05:00:00Z
Once in a while someone much younger than me takes note of my advancing years and assumes I have wisdom to impart. They have questions. I generally play along rather than acknowledge that what I know is dwarfed by what I don’t.

Lessenberry: Detroit’s new mayor a first - 2025-11-13T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Right up until the votes were counted last week, there were those who doubted whether Detroiters would elect a woman as the city’s next mayor. But last week, Mary Sheffield proved them very wrong, as she won by an eye-popping landslide.

Shribman: Gales of November remembered - 2025-11-09T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Here in the Mariners’ Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner of Woodbridge Street and Woodward Avenue, the gales of November seem to swirl in the air.

Lessenberry: A transformational lawyer’s next goal - 2025-11-06T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Years ago, when I was covering a high-profile Jack Kevorkian trial for the national media, the judge would recess the proceedings every so often and work through a parade of mostly poor and homeless defendants charged with mostly petty crimes.

Hussain: Precious metals, changing geopolitical alliances - 2025-11-05T05:00:00Z
During A somewhat clandestine Oval Office visit Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir presented President Trump a casket of precious minerals that Pakistan is planning to mine in the southern province of Baluchistan.

Shribman: The presidency remade in Trump’s image - 2025-11-02T04:00:00Z
Abraham Lincoln made the presidency a pulpit. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt transformed the office into an engine of big government. John F. Kennedy made it a platform of inspiration.

Walton: Sometimes the best spoon is the greasy one - 2025-11-02T04:00:00Z
Restaurant ratings, in my view, are often overrated, if you’ll pardon the expression.

Lessenberry: Ranked choice may make Michigan ballot - 2025-10-30T04:00:00Z
DETROIT — Back in 2018, Michigan Libertarians had a remarkably savvy candidate for governor, Bill Gelineau, who ran an underwriting business in Grand Rapids.

Shribman: Canada backs Jays as tensions simmer with U.S. - 2025-10-26T04:00:00Z
MONTREAL — Don’t think of them as Toronto’s team. Think of them instead as Canada’s team.

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