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Zepf Center receives $50,000 to aid runaways, homeless youths - 2025-12-16T20:45:03Z
The Zepf Center Safety Net, a shelter serving runaway and homeless youth in northwest Ohio, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Sylvania Franciscan Foundation Fund.

Water main closes street, blocks lane on inbound Anthony Wayne Trail - 2025-12-16T14:23:36Z
An apparent water main break near the Standart Lofts has closed part of Lafayette Street and blocked the inbound Anthony Wayne Trail’s left lane approaching Lafayette.

Toledo City Council approves funding for warming centers at last meeting of the year - 2025-12-17T00:01:35Z
Anticipating more days with below freezing temperatures this winter, Toledo City Council unanimously approved funding to support warming centers in the city.

Brown student from Bowling Green recounts Saturday shooting - 2025-12-17T01:00:35Z
BOWLING GREEN — Samuel Challu didn’t believe it, but he knew what to do when word spread on his campus that there was an active shooter.

UT, BGSU found noncompliant in state science of reading audit; Lourdes called ‘exemplar’ - 2025-12-16T16:31:33Z
COLUMBUS — The University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University are among the 10 schools found to be out of compliance with Ohio’s science of reading law in their educator preparation programs.

Oregon mayor seeks outside counsel over sunshine law concerns related to appointment - 2025-12-16T22:43:13Z
Oregon Mayor Steve Salander is seeking outside counsel to investigate whether members of council violated Ohio’s sunshine laws when they recently appointed David Andrus to fill a vacant seat.

4 northwest Ohio projects approved for job-creation tax credits - 2025-12-16T21:47:09Z
COLUMBUS — Four northwest Ohio projects were approved for job-creation tax credits during a recent Ohio Tax Credit Authority meeting, according to the Ohio Department of Development.

TPS closes elementary school over illness - 2025-12-16T21:18:26Z
Ottawa River Elementary School will be closed Wednesday and Thursday due to an outbreak of influenza-like and norovirus-like illness.

Lucas, Wood county entities receive state traffic safety grants - 2025-12-16T20:37:08Z
COLUMBUS — Law enforcement agencies in Lucas and Wood counties are among those receiving traffic safety grants from the Ohio Department of Public Safety.

TPD to search for missing woman in burned-down South Toledo house - 2025-12-16T20:30:20Z
Toledo police plan to sift through the rubble of a burned-down house on Wednesday in search of a 63-year-old woman who went missing nearly a month ago.

Republican Perrysburg resident jumps into race for Ohio governor - 2025-12-16T18:42:27Z
Perrysburg resident Casey Putsch is jumping in Ohio’s race for governor to challenge Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in the primary.

Monroe athletic director on leave after comments about transgender athlete - 2025-12-16T19:22:39Z
MONROE — The athletic director for Monroe schools has been placed on paid administrative leave following comments he made about a transgender athlete.

Dog killed after it attacked Whiteford Elementary School parent - 2025-12-16T17:38:55Z
The dog that attacked a parent outside Whiteford Elementary School last week has been killed.

St. Paul's to host two free Christmas concerts in downtown Toledo - 2025-12-16T12:33:56Z
The last two musical events of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church’s Christmas Nativity Festival take place Friday and Sunday in downtown Toledo.

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DeWine announces plans to sign cannabis bill during wide-ranging discussion - 2025-12-16T12:36:05Z
COLUMBUS — Legislation banning most forms of intoxicating hemp will be signed into law soon, according to Gov. Mike DeWine.

Carolers add to skating experience Saturday morning - 2025-12-15T12:14:08Z
There are two remaining Caroling at The Ribbon dates set for the season.

Photo Gallery: Book giveaway by Yark at Keyser Elementary - 2025-12-16T01:33:56Z
Representatives with Yark Subaru were at Keyser Elementary to distribute books to students as a special holiday gift in Toledo on Dec. 15.

Sylvania parents chime in after owner agrees to surrender dog that attacked students' mother - 2025-12-15T18:36:52Z
Several parents of students at a Sylvania grade school called for clearer communication Monday night and urged the district to build a fence between the school and the adjacent home of a dog that attacked a parent outside the building last week.

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Editorial: Garbage in, out - 2025-12-16T05:00:00Z
President Trump and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell don’t agree on much, but they both conclude data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics cannot currently be trusted. Without trustworthy data federal economic policy is that old operating warning of the computer revolution: garbage in, garbage out.

Editorial: Measles’ return - 2025-12-16T05:00:00Z
Herd immunity from vaccine requirements to enter school had measles eliminated as a health threat in the United States way back in 2000. But now measles is breaking out in 43 states thanks to bad decisions on vaccine safety.

Editorial: Welcome home, coach - 2025-12-15T04:45:00Z
For better or worse, the head football coach at any Division I university is the highest paid and most high-profile representative of the university. The embarrassment of the firing and arrest of Michigan Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore is just the latest example.

Editorial: Ukraine holding out - 2025-12-14T05:00:00Z
The peace process involving Russia and Ukraine continues to function, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky holding talks with many European countries.

Editorial: Growth is answer - 2025-12-14T04:45:00Z
Tight budgets for the city of Toledo and Lucas County have both local government bodies drawing down the rainy day fund to balance proposed spending with anticipated revenue. Toledo proposes a $28 million transfer from the budget stabilization fund while Lucas County expects to take just over $12 million from their savings account.

Editorial: Follow Title IX on girls’ sports - 2025-12-13T05:00:00Z
Given the clear direction made by the federal government, it’s a little shocking to learn that girls at Monroe High School had to compete with and share a locker room with a biological male, regardless of that male’s choice to identify as a female.

Editorial: Look for better solutions, TPS - 2025-12-12T05:00:00Z
Toledo Public Schools is facing a serious financial crisis and it came without any warning.

Editorial: Bailout taxpayer abuse self-inflicted - 2025-12-11T05:00:00Z
Donald Trump has bailed out American farmers from the devastating financial damage inflicted by — Donald Trump.

Editorial: Murals project great - 2025-12-11T04:45:00Z
Beauty brings joy has been our impression of the murals on downtown buildings and ADM silos along the east bank of the Maumee and the reason for our support of the project.

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.

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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.

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.

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