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Boy injured after being struck by car in North Toledo - 2026-03-01T14:23:27Z
An 8-year-old sustained serious injuries after being struck by a vehicle Saturday evening, police said.

No farmers market at Westgate this season - 2026-03-01T15:20:35Z
There will be no farmers market at Westgate this year.

Applying to colleges and universities not as hard as it appears - 2026-03-01T14:00:00Z
Making the decision to go to a college or university can be daunting and stressful for many students.

Local universities offer wealth of resources to first-generation students - 2026-03-01T14:00:00Z
Derell Bedingfield, Jr., has endured a lot of change in his life since he first stepped foot onto the University of Toledo’s campus as a freshman in 2022.

Ohio moves closer to banning ranked choice voting - 2026-03-01T14:07:19Z
COLUMBUS — Ranked choice voting would be prohibited in Ohio under legislation approaching the finish line in the state legislature.

Ohio lawmakers' votes: 2/23-2/27 - 2026-03-01T05:00:00Z
A look at recent actions in the Ohio General Assembly and how lawmakers representing the area voted.

Photo Gallery: Ohio Vintage Fest at the Glass City Center - 2026-03-01T01:24:56Z
The Ohio Vintage Fest took place at the Glass City Center on Feb. 28. Click the image above to view the full gallery.

Bowling Green Winterfest staple activities make post-pandemic return - 2026-02-28T18:56:11Z
BOWLING GREEN — After a five-year hiatus, families finally got to enjoy another Bowling Green Winterfest on Saturday.

Area congressmen respond to U.S. strike on Iran - 2026-02-28T15:56:38Z
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) has criticized the Trump Administration’s attack on Iran without authorization from Congress.

Motorcyclist injured after West Toledo collision - 2026-02-28T14:23:46Z
A motorcyclist was in critical condition Friday night after colliding with another vehicle on West Alexis Road, police said.

Middle schoolers get hands-on engineering experience at UT - 2026-02-27T18:50:29Z
Local middle schoolers smashed glass, built bridges, and cleaned up water at the University of Toledo on Friday.

Woman facing felony charges for crash that killed 2 - 2026-02-27T16:29:12Z
A Lucas County grand jury has indicted a Toledo woman in a December crash that killed two people.

Protecting historic assets topic of Dorr Street Forum - 2026-02-27T14:19:47Z
The African American Legacy Project of Northwest Ohio will host the second in a series of community meetings on revitalizing the Historic Dorr Street Corridor, also known as the Art Tatum Historic Business District.

Next Perspectives discussion to examine space travel, Artemis II - 2026-02-27T20:38:16Z
The University of Toledo and The Blade will hold the next Perspectives panel discussion, America’s Return to the Moon, on March 10.

Downtown partners launch cross-promotion strategy to boost business - 2026-02-27T21:10:58Z
With the Maumee River as a backdrop, Toledo, Lucas County, and tourism officials gathered Friday at Glass City Pavilion to unveil a coordinated downtown activation plan they believe will turn big events into bigger economic gains.

DeWine says more road funding needed as U.S. 23 study advances - 2026-02-27T20:51:20Z
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Transportation has identified the five best locations for a potential new freeway connecting U.S. 23 and I-71 as policymakers seek to improve travel between central and northwest Ohio.

Utility work to close portion of Sylvania Avenue - 2026-02-27T19:17:19Z
Utility work in West Toledo will force the closure of the eastbound lanes of Sylvania Avenue between Kelly and Upton avenues on Saturday.

2 men facing multiple felonies following separate pursuits - 2026-02-27T16:08:45Z
Two men are facing multiple felony charges following separate pursuits that started in the central city.

Lake schools presented with ‘curveball’ in latest financial forecast - 2026-02-27T15:18:10Z
MILLBURY, Ohio — Lake schools finds itself in the same boat as many districts across the state as the 2025-26 school year approaches its conclusion.

Photo gallery: Best pictures for week ending Feb. 26 - 2026-02-27T15:10:54Z
Blade photographers head out every day to capture the triumphs, tragedies, and oddities of life in Lucas County and beyond.

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Editorial: All should have sat - 2026-03-01T04:45:00Z
President Trump must have thought he had hit a home run when he asked Democrats in Congress during the State of the Union address whether American citizens are more entitled to the protection of the U.S. government than illegal aliens.

Editorial: Fight for bridge - 2026-03-01T04:45:00Z
The celebration of ties between Toledo and Canada and the highly anticipated business benefits from the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a highway to highway connection between Windsor and Detroit, is threatened by President Trump’s petulant opposition.

Editorial: Catch the bus - 2026-02-28T04:45:00Z
Toledo will benefit from the expanded service of the statewide nonprofit bus system, GoBus, announced last week.

Editorial: Wexner name casts shadow - 2026-02-26T11:21:22Z
Ohio politicians from both parties are dumping money from billionaire businessman Les Wexner to protect themselves from being stained by a connection to infamous child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Editorial: New blood needed in Lucas GOP? - 2026-02-26T11:17:24Z
The local organization Toledoans for Trump is making moves aimed at taking over the Lucas County Republican Party, and why not? The Lucas County GOP has left some countywide seats uncontested in the current election, and did not compete for mayor of Toledo in 2025.

Editorial: A case made for state of disunion - 2026-02-27T04:45:00Z
Any State of the Union address is a political Rorschach test, appealing to the partisans of a president’s political party and appalling to the political opposition. Because Republicans and Democrats have polarizing priorities, the percentage of independent voters has never been higher, and they are now the deciders in most elections.

Editorial: Trump tariff ruling no surprise - 2026-02-25T11:17:06Z
President Trump took the easy way on implementation of universal tariffs, and now he’ll have a very hard time maintaining his central economic policy.

Editorial: Resist attempts to block ICE - 2026-02-24T03:30:00Z
Once again Toledo City Council is besieged by advocates of Palestinians living in Gaza to make national foreign policy here in Toledo, and once again we encourage Toledo council to decline.

Editorial: Enforce all rules - 2026-02-23T04:45:00Z
The Federal Communications Commission has begun enforcing a decades-old equal time rule it has been routinely ignoring so as to benefit President Trump.

Editorial: CIC plan solid - 2026-02-22T04:45:00Z
The city development dominoes are lined up and beginning to fall as envisioned when the Toledo Community Improvement Corp. was created.

Editorial: Damage claim to STRS dubious - 2026-02-22T04:45:00Z
A judge’s ruling expelling — for life — two reform members of the State Teachers Retirement System board should not be the final word in this case.

Editorial: ‘Special status’ could use scrutiny - 2026-02-21T04:45:00Z
A Feb. 12 Wall Street Journal story on the relationship between Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski demands immediate Congressional investigation.

Editorial: No Russian bribes - 2026-02-19T11:19:54Z
U.S.-brokered peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are under way in Geneva, but rather than negotiate in good faith the Kremlin is attempting to influence the Trump Administration with $12 trillion in economic deals.

Editorial: Good cop, bad cop - 2026-02-19T11:17:41Z
It’s good that the Kapszukiewicz administration came forward this week to notify owners of vacant properties that those properties are supposed to be registered.

Editorial: Follow the Falcons’ pathway to success - 2026-02-20T04:45:00Z
The momentum continues to build at Bowling Green State University where enrollment has reached record levels and retention is hitting peaks in an environment that has never been more difficult for higher education.

Editorial: EPA is latest to knuckle - 2026-02-18T11:17:39Z
Political goals accomplished through regulation and executive order are falling like icicles in springtime and the latest is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding.”

Editorial: Where’s the effort? - 2026-02-17T03:45:00Z
The Ohio Senate is working on a roadblock to renewable energy projects that is actively hostile to northwest Ohio economic development.

Editorial: Gallup kills history - 2026-02-16T04:45:00Z
Sometimes new and improved is actually corporate meddling with a classic success. The Gallup Poll decision to end their monthly presidential approval measure after 88 years as the gold standard in polling is the worst call since Coke decided to imitate Pepsi in 1985.

Editorial: House tariff vote addresses reality - 2026-02-15T04:45:00Z
The U.S. House of Representatives has at long last formally recognized the reality that there is no “emergency” justifying handing over tariff power to President Trump for trade sanctions with Canada.

Editorial: Lourdes a friend to community - 2026-02-15T04:45:00Z
With the planned closing of Lourdes University, northwest Ohio loses a friend and a community partner that enriched our local culture.

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Shribman: An enduring light - 2026-03-01T04:45:00Z
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. — “No star fades faster than that of a high-school athlete,” the author John Grisham wrote in his 2006 book The Innocent Man. Today’s column is about a high school athlete whose star never faded — and whose star is casting a gentle light over the community he electrified as a football halfback, basketball guard, and baseball shortstop for the Swampscott High Big Blue more than a half century ago.

Guest Editorial: SOTU lacked point - 2026-02-28T04:45:00Z
The President of the United States “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” This is the constitutional basis for what has become known as the State of the Union address.

Lessenberry: Black History Month brings learning we need - 2026-02-26T11:25:07Z
DETROIT — We’re in the last few days of Black History Month, which is normally noted during the first few days of February, and then mostly forgotten, though it shouldn’t be.

Hussain: Humanities, stepchild of higher education - 2026-02-25T11:21:35Z
AN article, “The Plot Against the Humanities,” in Atlantic magazine caught my eye.

Shribman: A shared history of struggle - 2026-02-21T05:00:00Z
When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Ala., in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I felt my legs were praying,” he said.

Walton: Still the GOAT, half a century later - 2026-02-22T04:45:00Z
It’s the dead of winter around here — aka February — hardly the time to bring up the Sport of Kings. The image of horses thundering down the backstretch is probably not on your radar these days. But I read something recently that rekindled my seasonal interest in these magnificent animals. One magnificent animal in particular — the legendary and incomparable Secretariat.

Morici: An independent Greenland poses liabilities to U.S. - 2026-02-20T18:27:00Z
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S interest in securing Greenland is correct, but he should broaden his ultimate objective.

Lessenberry: Michiganders shocked by Trump bridge nonsense - 2026-02-19T11:15:08Z
DETROIT — Nearly everyone in southeast Michigan has been eagerly awaiting the opening of the sleek new Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting the United States and Canada.

Shribman: Artemis II mission, a voyage back to future - 2026-02-15T04:45:00Z
FOR MORE than a half century, the moon has orbited the Earth without a close human witness, its pitted, rocky surface unexplored, its far side unexamined, its mysteries left fallow.

Lessenberry: Lincoln — ‘Thank God for Michigan!’ - 2026-02-12T05:00:00Z
KALAMAZOO — When I was in elementary school I was fascinated by Abraham Lincoln, and dismayed because I thought he had virtually no ties to Michigan.

Hussain: Tangled web of Kashmir and Indo-Pakistan politics - 2026-02-11T05:00:00Z
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Last week Pakistan celebrated Kashmir Day. It was an annual official holiday where government offices, educational institutions, and financial institutions were closed. The idea was to reaffirm the nation’s resolve to help Indian-ruled Kashmir break away and join Pakistan. To emphasize the brutality that Indian rule has wrought on the populace, Islamabad had at every crossroad huge posters of Kashmiris showing in graphic details young faces full of bullet wounds, dismembered bodies, and of India soldiers brutalizing the population.

Walton: For The Blade building, it’s end of an era - 2026-02-08T05:00:00Z
The presses have been silent for many years, their rumble a distant but wonderful memory. The beautiful noise, the busy clatter of hundreds of people assembling what some of us affectionately called the “Daily Miracle,” has gone away. Soon, all that will be left of the grand old building at the corner of Superior and Orange streets in downtown Toledo will be the emptied out shell of a place that has lived beyond its time.

Shribman: Black Americans were fighting 2 wars - 2026-02-08T05:00:00Z
His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Ala., the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act. He grew up in Columbus where within 30 yards of his house six Black active-duty soldiers went off to Vietnam, including one of his childhood heroes — a young man who one day quietly slipped off to war. He went to college in Oxford, Ohio, where eight years earlier the legendary civil rights figure John Lewis had trained the Mississippi Freedom Summer civil rights volunteers, three of whom were murdered.

Lessenberry: Latest Detroit newspaper war over before it began - 2026-02-05T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Back in 1985, there were yellow newspaper boxes selling the Detroit Free Press and red ones with the Detroit News in many places in Toledo and elsewhere in northwest Ohio.

Shribman: An administration bent on upheaval - 2026-02-01T05:00:00Z
PALM BEACH, Fla. — From his lair at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump sees the sun rising. His sunshine retreat doesn’t allow him to see the sun setting.

Lessenberry: Mr. Hamtramck honored - 2026-01-29T05:00:00Z
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — For years, Hamtramck, a tiny enclave city embedded in Detroit, was a symbol of Poland in America. More Polish than English was spoken on the streets and in the shops.

Hussain: A nostalgic visit to city of my birth - 2026-01-28T05:00:00Z
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A few weeks ago, Majeed Babar, a journalist from Peshawar wrote a piece in one of the leading English newspapers of Pakistan. Its title captured my attention: “Losing the Peshawar I Once Knew.” In the article the author compared the orderly life of Paris with chaotic streets of Peshawar. It was a part nostalgic, part lament for an era long past.

Shribman: Let the states try it - 2026-01-25T05:00:00Z
JUPITER, Fla. — Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system. They were, in a metaphor contained in his 1932 minority opinion in New State Ice Co. vs. Liebmann, laboratories of democracy.

Walton: What does your license PL8 say about you? - 2026-01-25T05:00:00Z
Several years ago during a visit to Mackinaw City in Michigan, we spotted a blue Corvette parked in front of a fudge shop. Its license plate: BLU BY U.

Lessenberry: Gilchrist’s political pivot looks good on paper - 2026-01-22T05:00:00Z
LANSING — On New Year’s Day, Garlin Gilchrist, Michigan’s lieutenant governor, was running hard to get nominated for the top job in August.

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