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I heard on WTVG that Police Chief Michael Navarre will be taking on the job responsibilities of the Fire Chief after Chief Bell retires in addition to his responsibilities as Police Chief. They don’t have a link to the story up yet. In a quick check of all of our local media, none [...]

After a two week absence from the Sojourner’s Truth, former Mayor Jack Ford is back with his column, My View. We still have no answers to our questions from before but, this week Jack focuses on what he believes the key issue is on the topic of youth organizations and spending:
The reason for such [...]

I completely understand the desire of the Mayor and everyone to try to make sure something like the murder of Dectective Dressel never happens again. It’s being said that the Mayor is not just responding to this murder but this has been something he’s been discussing with Police Chief Navarre. The Toledo Blade [...]

This just in via email:
OHIO LEGISLATOR’S CONSERVATION REPORT CARD INDICATES FALLING GRADES
COLUMBUS, OHIO –The Ohio League of Conservation Voters (OLCV) released its annual legislative scorecard for Ohio legislators today. The average score in the House of Representatives fell to 67 percent for the 127th two-year legislative session, down from a B average in 2004. [...]

As the Toledo Blade article this morning written by Robin Erb reports:
Some cases were dismissed after victims failed to appear – a common outcome of domestic violence cases in Toledo Municipal Court.
It is too common and it allows situations like yesterday:
Four people were hurt yesterday in a collision in downtown Toledo that started as domestic [...]

Excellent show by Tom Watkins on Toledo Today, hopefully you tuned in and if not, perhaps the podcast of the show will be up later. Bill Delaney was in talking about the demonstration schedule this morning at 10:00 a.m. infront of the Health Department and why he felt it was important for even non-smokers [...]

It’s being reported in the Toledo Blade that Governor Ted Strickland does not support making the HPV vaccine mandatory.
While calling a new vaccine that protects against a virus that causes cervical cancer a “major medical breakthrough,” Gov. Ted Strickland said he does not favor making it mandatory.
That puts him at odds with a bill about [...]

I just completed reading every bill so far that the Ohio General Assembly has submited. There were 67 for the House and 80 for the Senate. I did this so I could find which bills I thought people would be interested in then create a title as well as a summary for the [...]

As we discussed earlier in this post that pointed out the Toledo Journal article, I was in the car today when Brian Wilson was on WSPD since Miguel listens to them…Anyway, Brian mentioned the Toledo Journal article and also had a representative from one of the ambulance companies on the air. I heard WSPD [...]

Since funding is an issue that is facing both the City and our Toledo Public School system, I thought this was an interesting article about the Bexley City Schools system in Ohio:
Upgrading ME to Windows XP, a newer version of the popular operating system, would cost the district about $412,000, she said. That price [...]

This just in via email from the Partnership for Job Preservation:
People concerned about the jobs, private clubs and businesses associated with the smoking ban are going to meet in front of the Lucas County department of health on February 27, 2007 at 10:30am. This demonstration will echo locally the opposition that will be voiced at [...]

I waited to blog about this, because I thought the Toledo Blade would write about Friday’s competition as they have in year’s past but it does not appear they are going to. So, with that said, this year once again Theta Tau sponsored the event at the University of Toledo. My oldest daughter [...]

This morning’s Conklin and Company was an interesting one, if you have cable you might want to catch it at one of the replay times. Sherrod Brown was the first guest, he stated one of his focuses was still on the war in Iraq and getting our troops out within 18 months. When [...]

First, this week’s edition of the Toledo Free Press focuses on Detective Keith Dressel in the cover story by Justin R. Kalmes.
In what is a two part series on making money from your blog, this week’s Blog it! Toledo concentrates on a few of the basics you need to know and starts [...]

The main thing that doesn’t make sense to me is why the Mayor did not hire someone who could also do web design…There are people out there that can do both. That would have saved the City the additional amount of money as stated in this article written by Tom Troy. Even if [...]

I noticed that another Ohio blog, the Daily Bellwether, had linked to my earlier article about the possibility of Toledo Police cars having advertising. Bill Sloat offers a very interesting post about a past situation where then Attorney General Jim Petro weighed in on this topic, first not agreeing with a rural sheriff’s department [...]

Progressive Toledo is back, so head on over and say hello as well as read about some of the changes planned with the re-birth.

As this article in today’s Toledo Blade points out, the Toledo area ranked fourth as an affordable big city in the nation for home buyers in the last quarter of 2006. This confirms something that many of us have said is one of the pluses of living in Toledo. The article states:
Eighty-six percent of [...]

Yes, the kind of bills as in legislative bills, has finally been submitted so that legislative information is now being collected/listed on Ohio BillHop. With the help of some of the awesome people at BillHop I’ve been adding bills and title information as well as working on summaries for a few of the ones [...]

I heard about this earlier but received a copy tonight so I uploaded it and am sharing it with you. Many felt and still do feel that the City needs a full time Economic Development Director, City Council on the Updated Agenda Summary – February 13, 2007 shows this resolution as adopted. The [...]

I’ve thus far kept the 2008 Presidential discussion limited as a topic of discussion here on Glass City Jungle. Yet in reading this editorial in the Sojourner’s Truth in the weekly This Strikes Us feature, I was left with the choice of bringing this issue up or ignoring it, so the obvious is [...]

It’s hard to know how to blog this, every media source has stories on what happened outlining more information about about Toledo police detective Keith Dressel and a summary of the events as well as memorial fund information. Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s statement was put here on the blog by Brian Schwartz and is [...]

Most of the media has information on this breaking news story and from Holly’s Happenings a link to a Memorial Page from the The Officer Down Memorial Page.

I recommend taking a visit over to the Toledo Journal to read an article by Bob Stiegel. It’s more than just about the belief that 7 City Council members will side with the Mayor believing that the City taking over private ambulance runs is a great idea, it’s more than about John Sherburne, director [...]

I heard this earlier but it was not confirmed, now it has been confirmed via email from the Lucas County Democratic Party:
Lucas County Democratic Party Executive Committee
Votes To Select Jeanine Perry For Lucas County Recorder
The Lucas County Democratic Party Executive Committee has endorsed Jeanine Perry by unanimous vote to go in front of the [...]

Interesting story from WTOL states that:
SYLVANIA — Sylvania residents and businesses are tired of skyrocketing electric bills. So, on Tuesday, its city council announced it is investigating a plan of action, reports News 11’s Dick Berry.
Sylvania is looking to give First Energy the boot and establish its own municipal electric utility. At Tuesday’s council meeting, [...]

I don’t think anyone is surprised by the news that Buckeye was one of those who bid for the Wi Toledo project. I was kind of surprised that Earthlink did not submit a bid considering their earlier mention when the project was first discussed. Who is MetroFi? Let’s find out…
It appears they [...]

I can’t say I would have thought of that as a nickname for WSPD’s Brian Wilson, but the mystery person or persons known as Johnny Hildo over at the Toledo City Paper has thus dubbed Brian Wilson with that nickname as well as stating in the Brian Vs Brian battle, Wilson was disqualified. Hildo [...]

This just in via email:
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Student Union, Room 1509 – Joe McNamara will be the featured speaker as part of the Young Democrats Lecture Series. Following the discussion, there will be a brief update on the “ABC’s of HPV” a program run by LCYD member Allison Dow. (Editorial note: [...]

Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop was on the Toledo Today show as the guest of Tom Watkins. The majority of the conversation focused on Ben’s visiting local high schools to talk to seniors about their thoughts on this area to begin a dialouge with them and on his press conference planned for later this [...]