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Catholic Charities buys former East Toledo school site for Helping Hands center - 2026-03-09T17:30:04Z
With the purchase of a plot of land in East Toledo, Catholic Charities Diocese of Toledo has helped pave the way for a new home of the Helping Hands food and clothing center.

Monroe County Farm Bureau offering scholarships - 2026-03-09T13:58:57Z
MONROE — Local students of agriculture can apply for one of three $750 scholarships to be awarded in May by the Monroe County Farm Bureau.

Maumee high schoolers share human trafficking awareness with peers - 2026-03-09T22:44:57Z
A small group of Maumee High School students spoke to fellow students about human trafficking and called on them to look out for red flags and seek help from a trusted adult if they see any.

Northwest Ohio is the 'gateway to birding nirvana,' advocate tells Rotarians - 2026-03-09T19:50:55Z
We’re not just singing the warbler’s praise when we say this: Kim Kaufman gets excited about birds.

Luckey quarry owners file for dismissal of ‘sham’ eminent-domain case - 2026-03-09T20:39:01Z
LUCKEY, Ohio — The owners of a quarry are looking to dismiss Luckey’s attempt to take land via eminent domain, calling it a “complete sham” with “calculated, continuous, and shocking misrepresentations” by village officials.

DeWine recognizes Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black women’s Battalion - 2026-03-09T21:14:02Z
They were told the job would take six months, but they finished it in three.

Ohio Senate passes anti-Semitism bill despite free speech concerns - 2026-03-09T20:05:26Z
COLUMBUS — Legislation aiming to prevent anti-Semitism on college campuses was approved by the Ohio Senate on Wednesday despite warnings from state Sen. Paula Hicks-Hudson (D., Toledo) that the bill would chill protected speech.

Public invited to tour Arts Commission’s new home - 2026-03-09T21:30:56Z
The Arts Commission is inviting the general public to tour its new home in the UpTown district this weekend.

Anthony Wayne Bridge work to be done in 2 days instead of 4 - 2026-03-09T20:13:07Z
Repairs on the Anthony Wayne Bridge, previously scheduled to close each set of lanes for two days, are proceeding faster than expected.

Council proposals would set ground rules for immigration enforcement in Toledo - 2026-03-09T17:53:25Z
The city of Toledo could be the latest municipality to adopt specific policies regarding immigration enforcement.

Photo gallery: E-scooters scoot into new season at UT - 2026-03-09T18:50:34Z
The City of Toledo, in partnership with the University of Toledo and Veo, launched the 2026 shared E-scooters season at UT’s Centennial Mall on Monday. Click through the images above to see the full gallery.

UT will maintain Lourdes transcripts as part of teach-out agreement - 2026-03-09T18:19:36Z
The University of Toledo will be the primary teach-out partner for Lourdes University students whose programs align with offerings at UT.

Man who alleged police harassment pleads to misdemeanor - 2026-03-09T18:17:14Z
An Indiana man whose lawyer alleged police were harassing him because of his murder acquittal in late 2023 pleaded guilty Monday morning to a misdemeanor to resolve a case arising from a traffic stop.

Rash decision led to man’s 15-year sentence, judge says - 2026-03-09T17:31:17Z
A Springfield Township man convicted for a fatal shooting outside a West Toledo bar last year maintained at his sentencing Monday that he acted in self-defense, but the judge saw it differently.

Ohio State president resigns after admitting 'inappropriate relationship' - 2026-03-09T16:45:30Z
COLUMBUS — Ohio State University President Walter “Ted” Carter has resigned after admitting an inappropriate relationship, the university’s board of trustees announced Monday.

Award-winning play ‘Having Our Say’ to be performed at Spiegel Grove - 2026-03-09T17:06:08Z
FREMONT — Two Ohio women will perform Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years at Spiegel Grove on Saturday in recognition of Women’s History Month and America250.

Major work slated to start this week on I-75 near Monroe - 2026-03-09T12:00:00Z
LA SALLE, Mich. — Long-term lane closings for the current stage of I-75 reconstruction in Monroe County are scheduled to start Thursday morning and run for most of 2026.

'Eagle was the only thing we had': Fayette begins life after Eagle Machining - 2026-03-09T10:23:54Z
FAYETTE, Ohio — More than two months after it was first announced, the closure of Eagle Machining in Fayette, Ohio, is still fresh in the minds of many.

Toledo City Council to roll out immigration enforcement legislation - 2026-03-08T12:00:00Z
Toledo City Council is expected to roll out a series of proposed legislation regarding immigration enforcement policies.

11th hour approaches once again for Waterville’s Roche de Boeuf Bridge - 2026-03-08T11:30:00Z
The latest chapter in the history of Waterville’s Roche de Boeuf Bridge is still waiting to be written this spring.

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Editorial: Golfers drive hard bargain - 2026-03-09T03:45:00Z
Toledo City Council must have more money than it needs.

Editorial: Two keys on way forward in Iran - 2026-03-08T04:45:00Z
President Trump’s attack on Iran has thrown the world into a chaos that he may or may not have foreseen back when he massed warships and missile launchers around Iran and then joined Israel in a direct attack on that country.

Editorial: Bad energy policy - 2026-03-08T04:45:00Z
The cottage industry of Columbus corruption that brought Ohio a $1.3 billion bailout for FirstEnergy’s financially failing nuclear power plants, thanks to $65 million in bribes, is now working on legislation allowing a nuclear buildout for American Electric Power.

Editorial: Listen to Claude - 2026-03-07T04:45:00Z
The targets in Iran under attack by the United States are selected by a high-tech combination of data from satellites, surveillance, and other intelligence supplied by data mining company Palantir and analyzed by the artificial intelligence supplied by Anthropic, the U.S. company recently banned from government contracts by President Trump.

Editorial: Credit scam victims - 2026-03-06T04:45:00Z
It’s last rites for First Brands with the corporate announcement of plant closings set to throw 1,200 Ohio workers out of a job including more than 700 in northwest Ohio.

Editorials: Inverness creates opportunity - 2026-03-05T11:27:04Z
You don’t need to be a golfer to rejoice in the success of Inverness Club in attracting the 2045 United States Golf Association’s U.S. Open tournament — the Super Bowl of golf — to Toledo.

Editorial: Vistula park good for public - 2026-03-05T11:23:51Z
Metroparks Toledo’s plan for another park in the city is a courageous decision that will pay big dividends for Toledo and Lucas County overall.

Guest Editorial: Vague war aims may spell disaster - 2026-03-06T04:45:00Z
President Trump’s decision to launch a major conflict with Iran is almost certainly his most consequential presidential decision to date and may be the most important action of the U.S. government since former President George W. Bush’s Iraq War.

Editorial: Leverage ARPA for growth - 2026-03-04T11:21:38Z
Toledo City government has an urgent requirement to do what they’re good at — spending money — or face the humiliation of sending American Rescue Plan Act dollars back to Washington.

Editorial: Iran’s regime must change - 2026-03-03T03:45:00Z
Iran’s leadership deeply deserved the stunning shock that came to them on Saturday when American and Israeli bombs and missiles obliterated the top leadership.

Editorial: Data study delay - 2026-03-02T04:45:00Z
The proposed Data Study Commission under consideration in Columbus is a classic example of a day late and a dollar short in the Ohio General Assembly.

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.

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Shribman: Total war emerges from fog - 2026-03-08T04:45:00Z
This is the moment when total war meets the fog of war.

Walton: That pitch was outside! Kill the computer! - 2026-03-08T04:45:00Z
Major league baseball is about to launch its 2026 season, and along with it will come a change that invites unwarranted controversy. The major leagues will implement an Automated Ball and Strike, or ABS, Challenge System for the first time. In other words, an umpire’s call of ball or strike can be challenged, and a computer will replay the pitch to see if any part of the ball nicked any part of the strike zone.

Lessenberry: Detroit has characters — like ‘the plague doctor’ - 2026-03-05T11:29:14Z
DETROIT — Detroit has long been a city that’s attracted odd characters, from Jack Kevorkian to flamboyant (and often crooked) politicians, ministers, and eccentric athletes, such as Mark “the Bird” Fidrych, who talked to the ball and came out of nowhere to be the league’s best pitcher for a career that lasted one glorious year.

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.

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