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Free lunch helps boys gain practical skills, confidence - 2026-01-19T12:14:52Z
Young men can reserve their spot for Saturday’s Tie Event at the Glass Pavilion.

Film, lecture at UT to address homelessness - 2026-01-19T11:00:00Z
A documentary screening and lecture at the University of Toledo will focus on homelessness in America.

Hiker Fest celebrates the outdoors at Oak Openings - 2026-01-19T12:15:15Z
Go take a hike Saturday during Hiker Fest put on by Metroparks Toledo.

Bitter cold blankets Toledo, with more expected late in week - 2026-01-19T16:29:21Z
Bitter cold that settled into the Toledo area Monday was shaping up to be a precursor of even colder conditions late this week.

Edison bridge over Sandusky Bay reopens after whiteout conditions - 2026-01-19T20:52:09Z
BAY VIEW, Ohio — The Thomas A. Edison Memorial Bridge has reopened after several Monday afternoon crashes closed both sides of the bridge.

Expect increased intimidation tactics in 2026, voting rights leader says - 2026-01-19T21:48:23Z
COLUMBUS — Ohio voters should prepare to face higher levels of intimidation and disinformation during the 2026 election cycle, according to League of Women Voters of Ohio Executive Director Jen Miller.

Folk artist Chloe Kimes to perform at the Main Library - 2026-01-19T21:46:38Z
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Chloe Kimes is coming to the Toledo Lucas County Public Library for its Live at the Library concert series.

Swanton opposes giving FirstEnergy more time to fix power outages - 2026-01-19T15:42:53Z
The village of Swanton has joined a growing chorus of citizens and public officials who are trying to stop FirstEnergy Corp. from getting Ohio’s electrical reliability standards weakened so the utility can have more time responding to power outages.

Wintertime family fun at Way Public Library - 2026-01-19T20:59:40Z
Families are invited for cozy winter activities at the Way Public Library Saturday night.

Person dies in Gibsonburg house fire - 2026-01-19T20:35:27Z
GIBSONBURG, Ohio — Fire crews battling a morning fire in the village’s south side found a person dead inside the home.

Live arts program inspires crowds on MLK Day - 2026-01-19T20:22:53Z
On the Martin Luther King, Jr., Day holiday when most schools and many businesses were closed, Toledoans flocked to the Toledo Museum of Art for a day of learning, browsing, reflecting, and artmaking.

Juvenile shot, injured at West Toledo apartment complex - 2026-01-19T20:24:17Z
A juvenile was shot and injured in West Toledo.

FBI accepting applications for Future Agents in Training program - 2026-01-19T18:27:57Z
High school juniors are being encouraged to apply for the FBI’s Future Agents in Training program.

Toledo pastor connects MLK and Jesus for young learners - 2026-01-19T12:13:41Z
In honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosary Cathedral Catholic School welcomed the Rev. Cedrick Brock to deliver a message highlighting the connection between the teachings of Jesus Christ and the life and leadership of the late civil rights activist.

Michigan residents oppose potential data centers - 2026-01-18T22:37:33Z
MONROE — The George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument in downtown Monroe had a front row seat to a Sunday afternoon gathering of about 35 people opposing the construction of data centers in their communities.

Photo Gallery: Downtown anti-ICE protest - 2026-01-19T01:16:03Z
Protesters gathered for an anti-ICE protest in downtown Toledo on Sunday.

Photo Gallery: Save America Toledo Rally in support of ICE - 2026-01-19T01:16:02Z
Protesters in support of ICE demonstrations at the Save America Toledo Rally gather at the War Memorial in Toledo on Sunday. Click the image above to view the full gallery.

Hundreds rally in Toledo against Trump immigration crackdown - 2026-01-19T01:21:35Z
Several hundred protesters chanted anti-ICE slogans Sunday night while they lined a block of Clayton Street for an hour in opposition of the Trump Administration’s immigration raids.

Below-freezing temperatures close Toledo Zoo - 2026-01-18T20:17:34Z
Because of cold weather conditions, the Toledo Zoo announced Sunday it would remain closed through Tuesday.

Fake bombs are real pleasure for Bryan machinist - 2026-01-18T14:00:00Z
BRYAN — There’s a man on the outskirts of Bryan who makes bombs, rockets, and missiles.

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Editorial: Husted steps up for manufacturing - 2026-01-19T05:00:00Z
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted’s direct challenge to the Trump Administration to reinstate $6.6 million in assistance to local manufacturing job creation programs in Ohio is a step in the right direction for the Republican senator.

Editorial: Local GOP aims to help voters - 2026-01-18T05:00:00Z
The Lucas County Republican Party is making a commendable contribution to boosting voter participation and awareness. It’s an effort that might eventually result in the GOP being able to compete for offices in county government and the city of Toledo.

Editorial: Zoo levy reducer a nod to trend - 2026-01-18T05:00:00Z
Competition for the increasingly unpopular property tax levy in Ohio appears to be heating up.

Editorial: Affordability no hoax - 2026-01-17T05:00:00Z
All praise the power of polls. Sinking approval ratings, especially on the economy, have pushed President Trump from attacking affordability concerns as a “hoax” to pushing proposals to address the problem.

Editorial: Nonpartisan elections office - 2026-01-16T05:00:00Z
Ohio was overdue for a new organization to address election disputes and violations after laws governing campaign finances changed. Thus, the newly created Ohio Election Integrity Commission.

Editorial: Sell ‘Toledo rich’ - 2026-01-15T05:00:00Z
The key to success in the city’s mission to boost population back above 300,000 by 2040 is to build a modern day gold rush of people who want to be “Toledo rich.”

Editorial: Comment too hot - 2026-01-15T04:45:00Z
Timing is crucial in politics, so Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken should know this is no time to stoke public passion.

Editorial: President vs. Fed - 2026-01-14T04:45:00Z
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell is under criminal investigation for perjury by a Trump-appointed prosecutor best known as a lying TV host who helped land Fox News in a $787.5 million defamation judgment case brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

Editorial: Investigation needs to be independent - 2026-01-13T05:00:00Z
It is far from certain, based on the video evidence of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, that the ICE officer who pulled the trigger was justified in doing so.

Editorial: Let solar shine - 2026-01-12T05:00:00Z
The Ohio Supreme Court has a huge decision to make regarding the economic prospects of solar energy in the state.

Editorial: Libertarian reset - 2026-01-11T05:00:00Z
The declaration of a drag queen to run for the Libertarian nomination for Congress will spice up interest in the contest to represent the 9th congressional district.

Editorial: Tickets punched - 2026-01-11T04:45:00Z
The tickets are set for the endorsed Republican and Democratic candidates for Ohio governor. Each lieutenant governor selection pairs a political veteran with a campaign rookie at the top of the party ticket.

Editorial: Trump follows Orwell on Jan. 6 - 2026-01-10T05:00:00Z
The White House website devoted to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, is a taxpayer-funded fictional document that is on the other side of the moon from the truth.

Editorial: Social media sewer - 2026-01-09T05:00:00Z
Nothing gets past Vivek Ramaswamy.

Editorial: Oil miscalculation - 2026-01-08T05:00:00Z
The military planning behind the successful extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife was exemplary.

Editorial: Demarcate Fallen Timbers battle site - 2026-01-08T04:45:00Z
The pressure for locating a data center near Waterville has raised again the question of whether the historically significant Battle of Fallen Timbers battlefield site is adequately demarcated and memorialized. Plainly it is not.

Editorial: Ohio AI leadership - 2026-01-07T04:45:00Z
Status as the first state in the nation to require schools adopt a policy on artificial intelligence is a welcome distinction for Ohio but most importantly as evidence that education policy makers understand where the world is going.

Editorial: Seek consensus - 2026-01-06T05:00:00Z
It’s our fervent prayer that the aftermath of the U.S. military extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and wife goes as flawlessly as the special forces operation.

Editorial: Thanks to Pence - 2026-01-06T05:00:00Z
History will not be denied.

Editorial: Police housing important work - 2026-01-05T05:00:00Z
Much good work is done in a community that has generous philanthropists, and Toledo is no exception.

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Shribman: Things are heating up in Arctic - 2026-01-18T05:00:00Z
Donald Trump and his top lieutenants believe there is no such thing as climate change. Trump and his top lieutenants are worried sick about how the melting of the Arctic polar ice cap is opening a new Northwest Passage, which is a developing national security threat.

Lessenberry: Remembering Lud Ashley - 2026-01-15T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — How many people today remember Thomas Ludlow Ashley, Toledo’s powerful congressman for a quarter-century?

Hussain: Turmoil in Iran is threat to its religious government - 2026-01-14T05:00:00Z
Iran is going through deepening crisis. There have been violent street demonstrations throughout the country. It has been reported that at least 2,000 people have died in skirmishes with the police.

Walton: Every writer’s lament — Curse of blank page - 2026-01-11T05:00:00Z
EVEN GIFTED writers — so I’m told — occasionally find it difficult to sit down at the keyboard and actually start writing something. They stare at the screen and lament the chore at hand. No less an expert at crafting fine prose than longtime 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney occasionally had to battle the curse of the blank page.

Shribman: As goes Venezuela, so goes America - 2026-01-11T05:00:00Z
Has Donald  Trump just ripped the mattress tag from international relations?

Guest Editorial: Fate of Venezuelans is now in hands of Trump and America - 2026-01-09T05:00:00Z
“You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people,” the late Gen. Colin Powell told President George W. Bush before the president authorized the Iraq War, according to journalist Bob Woodward. “You will own all their hopes, aspirations and problems. You’ll own it all.”

Lessenberry: Michigan case testing law on animal rights - 2026-01-08T05:00:00Z
LANSING — Could the Michigan Supreme Court decide that chimpanzees and perhaps other animals have “personhood rights,” and no longer can be bought, sold, or held in zoos?

Shribman: Year changes, but many questions remain same - 2026-01-04T05:00:00Z
A new year, the same questions.

Lessenberry: What’s next for Michigan’s Big 3? - 2026-01-01T05:00:00Z
LANSING — Seven years ago today, with considerable fanfare, Gretchen Whitmer, Jocelyn Benson, and Dana Nessel took office as Michigan’s governor, secretary of state, and attorney general.

Hussain: Airbrushing Christmas from Christmas season - 2025-12-31T05:00:00Z
When I landed at Toledo Express Airport in the summer of 1963 to start an internship at St. Charles Hospital, I thought I knew everything there is to know about the United States. I had read American history and had seen a bunch of Hollywood movies. Within few months of my arrival, I had made friends with Wray and Bob Barber who lived on a farm near Perrysburg and many others. Thus began my real introduction to real Americans.

Walton: Bad words bring good performance - 2025-12-28T05:00:00Z
I wish my mother, rest her soul, were alive to read this. So I’ll just have to hope they get The Blade in heaven. Mom, it turns out that those times I let slip with a cuss word didn’t make me a bad kid, despite your anguished assertions to the contrary.

Shribman: No longer a big cheese - 2025-12-28T05:00:00Z
MONTREAL — Michael Finnerty finally has woken up. His awakening is a lesson for us all in personal struggle and purpose, in renewal and redemption.

Lessenberry: A fateful year awaits in Michigan politics - 2025-12-25T03:00:00Z
LANSING — Well, it’s Christmas, and I hope everyone reading this, whatever your beliefs may be, is having a wonderful and relaxing day. While this isn’t usually a day for politics, everything seems pervaded by politics these days, and it’s a good day for staring into the fire and thinking about what a difference a year can make.

Shribman: Keep your hat on - 2025-12-21T05:00:00Z
MONTREAL — Time for a holiday-season break from the divisions of the day. Surely you can read about war, protests, economic strains, cultural disputes, AI, cryptocurrency, the White House ballroom, and Donald Trump elsewhere.

Lessenberry: Legal mess means Line 5 still a threat - 2025-12-18T05:00:00Z
CHARLEVOIX, Mich. — Almost eight years ago, when Gretchen Whitmer first ran for governor of Michigan, she called for the ancient oil-carrying pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac to be shut down.

Hussain: An unfair, lopsided American health-care system - 2025-12-17T05:00:00Z
While most western democracies have a comprehensive healthcare system, the United States is still struggling with providing equitable and fair health care for its population. All efforts to reform the health system in the past were vehemently opposed by the Republicans. They were just happy to have an archaic system where health insurance companies and pharma get rich and the poor and uninsured are left out to suffer.

Shribman: Is tide turning in Maine? - 2025-12-14T05:00:00Z
PORTLAND, Maine — An entrenched senator distrusted by both parties. A governor born just 18 months after 79-year-old Donald Trump. An oyster farmer who for years walked around with a Nazi symbol tattoo. Anti-gay remarks in a state generally regarded as welcoming to LGBTQ+ people. Pockets of deep Trump loyalty in a state that he lost three times. Traditional resistance to outsiders and the likelihood of a flood of out-of-state spending.

Walton: Happy Yule, y’all, from Harvey and Harriet - 2025-12-14T05:00:00Z
Christmas is just around the corner, and it’s a relief to know that in a volatile and uncertain world, some things remain as dependable as ice on the driveway. Take the annual holiday letter from the Fizblisters. Please. Harvey and Harriet’s card came this week, as usual with postage due.

Lessenberry: High integrity in election vote count - 2025-12-11T05:00:00Z
DETROIT — Two weeks ago I heard from a faithful reader and former student, a successful professional now past middle age.

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.

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