(My Apr 23, 2014 comment at a ToledoTalk.com thread about Ted Nugent performing at the Northwest Ohio Rib-off, scheduled for August 2014.)

I did not realize that people were being forced to buy tickets to attend a concert in Maumee, Ohio.

I guess it's too much to expect that humans would decide on their own whether to attend an event.

In the future, will entertainers who are scheduled to perform in northwest Ohio need to be vetted by special interest groups?

Toledo's City Charter

167.06. Art in Public Places Program.

April 22, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/forty-four-years-of-earth-day.html

Apr 19, 2014 - Vox.com - This graduation speech teaches you everything you need to know about economics in 297 words

(My comment to an April 2014 ToledoTalk.com thread.)

Another user said:

"Give me a national holiday for election day ..."

Does that mean a day off from work? If so, would that be a holiday only on presidential elections or every November general election? If the latter, then the 75 percent of the eligible voting public who does not vote would love the holiday idea.

Is the goal of the election day holiday to make it easier for hard-core voters to vote or to increase voter turnout?

What about other elections that occur in March, May, and September? Are those holidays too?

(from my ToledoTalk.com post)

Both cities held mayoral elections in November 2013.

Summary: most residents don't give a damn.

http://toledobladedata.com/electionresults

Excerpts from an Apr 5, 2014 Scripting.com post titled Jay uses Fargo :

Jotting down beers that DD and I enjoy trying. This list may give us ideas for future beer brewing projects at home.

Apr 14, 2014 - ToledoTalk.com - Do you have a 'home' phone

It seems that most responders do not have a land line phone at home, which is not a surprise.

We still have a land line. It does not make long distant calls. It can receive long distant calls. The land line is our "home" phone number, which we use for some registration or sign-up purposes.

These recipes make the "Margherita" style pizza. Each dough recipe makes four pizzas that are at least 10 to 12 inches in diameter. If using a rectangle baking stone instead of the more square-ish pizza stone, the pizza dough will be stretched into an oval shape.

"Yes grandpa, there really is an age problem in tech."

A few snippets, not an exhaustive story.

Junco is a web-based publishing tool, used to house notes, bookmarks, thoughts, and other writings.

The app can be setup as a community site with social features, such as following users, following tags, and adding replies. Or it can be setup as a personal publishing site.

It's built with basic Perl and MySql

(My Apr 13, 2014 comment to a ToledoTalk.com thread.)

A commenter said:

"One other thing to add is that newspaper space is also a major issue. Example: One column story that is edited down to six inches in order to fit the newspaper ... So, not only do you have to have a great command of the English language, but you also have to write and edit to space - that includes headlines."

It baffles me that print-to-paper is controlling this in 2014. Even today, some old newspaper orgs are too focused on printing, which, in my opinion, hampers their innovation and hastens their demise. Inches of space do not apply to digital publishing, which should be a first, second, and a third priority.

Augusta.com story

• It's the classic three-button style, single-breasted and center-vented.
• Made of tropical-weight wool (about 2 1/2 yards per jacket) from Forstmann Co. mill in Dublin, Ga.
• That brilliant rye green: Pantone 342.
• Estimated cost to make: $250. (Although no club spokesperson will confirm this publicly.)
• Made exclusively since 1967 by Hamilton Tailoring Co. of Cincinnati.