Glass City Jungle

This in via email as a media release:
LIBRARY VILLAGE HOSTS HOLIDAY CHILDREN’S CELEBRATION
Toledo Fire Fighters to Distribute Smoke Alarms To Area Families
Toledo, OH – Toledo City Councilwoman-Elect Lindsay Webb and the Library Village Neighborhood Revitalization Committee in cooperation
with Block Watch invites media to attend the organization’s Holiday Children’s Celebration tomorrow, Saturday December 1st, from 2 [...]

As this article by the Blade Columbus Bureau points out:
COLUMBUS – Gov. Ted Strickland will join 5th District congressional candidate Robin Weirauch on the campaign trail for the first time tomorrow, the first test of just how long the Democratic governor’s coattails are.
From an additional email received by the Ohio Democratic Party more details:
RALLY
SATURDAY, DECEMBER [...]

The same Steve Steel who is a Toledo Public School Board member and currently the President of the Toledo School Board, writes the cover story for this week’s Toledo City Paper, A beautiful day in the neighborhood. It’s an interesting look at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and I recommend giving it a read.
Toledo [...]

After I read the Blade article, I set off to read the pdf of the report on the most depressed states, on Mental Health in America. The ranking from the pdf of the states where more people are depressed are as follows:
WYOMING 42
OHIO 43
MISSOURI 44
IDAHO 45
OKLAHOMA 46
NEVADA 47
RHODE ISLAND 48
KENTUCKY 49
WEST VIRGINIA 50
UTAH 51

This media release just in via email from the Robin Weirauch for Ohio’s Fifth Congressional District campaign:
Robin Weirauch to Discuss Need to Keep and Create More Jobs in Northwest Ohio
Weirauch, Concerned Residents to Slam Unfair Trade Agreements
Bowling Green, OH — Today, Robin Weirauch, Democratic candidate for Congress (OH-05), will join concerned residents at the Daimler [...]

As reported in the Sentinel Tribune. I recommend reading the article in full but some relevant parts:
Two televised debates that both Republican Bob Latta and Democrat Robin Weirauch agreed to prior to the primary election, have been canceled because neither candidate could squeeze them into their schedules. And this morning it was announced that [...]

It’s a tragic situation when anyone dies in a fire, it’s even more tragic when it’s a child and pretty horrendous for our community when three children die huddled together in a hall. What makes this story even worse is their mother died as well and it appears there was no smoke detectors [...]

This week’s Sojourner’s Truth is online and our former Mayor and current School Board member Jack Ford shares his thoughts on a myriad of topics in the My View feature. While I recommend reading the piece in full, part that caught my attention:
One of the local press guys undermined the concept by calling it [...]

Earlier today I was contacted by Jonathan Dyer who is with WNYC Radio and Your Billion Dollar President where the question that is being asked on their blog right now, Is there a better way is one that I’ll be answering via an interview that will be on an upcoming show focusing on Ohio. [...]

Okay re-fixed and appears to be working in IE, I had to add an attribute to be able to get the template to be able to be seen the same way in both browsers. Everything should be fine for now (fingers crossed).

This morning’s Blade has an article by Tom Troy that covers some of the other action taken yesterday by Toledo City Council Toledo council approves Dorr Street program, since I had a chance to watch the exchange as is alluded to in the article:
The unanimous vote came only after council split into familiar anti-Finkbeiner and [...]

I watched City Council on television today, and among the things that was before Council today was mention of the 3/4% income tax coming before the voters, on the March 4th ballot. I headed over to look at the agenda to find item 787, and it’s not listed as of tonight (unfortunately the information [...]

This Press Release just received via email from the office of the Mayor:
TOLEDO VOTED MOST LIVABLE CITY IN NORTH AMERICA
Toledo, Ohio (from London, England) – the City of Toledo was voted the most livable city in North America by a panel of international judges in the United [...]

So, what do Toledo residents think about the award last night?
In the Blade 3rd-place finish brings mixture of pride, surprise for Toledo.
NBC24 Toledo comes in #3 for most liveable city
WTOL Toledo is 3rd ‘Most Liveable Community,’ judges say
WTVG Toledo earns 3rd for the Liveable Community Award

This in via email from the offices of the Lucas County Commissioners:
NEW RULES TARGET CHILD SUPPORT DELINQUENTS THROUGH INCOME TAX REFUNDS
Toledo, OH – New federal rules will help Lucas County collect more past-due child support from delinquent parents, according to the Lucas County Commissioners and Maricarol Torsok, Director of the Lucas County Child Support Enforcement [...]

This in via email from the offices of the Lucas County Commissioners:
LUCAS COUNTY PARTNERS WITH HUMANE OHIO TO HELP CONTROL ANIMAL POPULATION
Invoking Bob Barker’s most famous adage, Lucas County Commissioners and Humane Ohio will urge residents to “help control the pet population” when they renew their dog licenses at a news conference on Tuesday, November [...]

Update 11/27: I promise to be done soon, the light template while I liked my banner was too blah for my tastes. What I ideally wanted to do was to make use of what is called a “theme switcher” which would give you the reader the choice of which background you wanted, unfortunately [...]

While Toledo didn’t take first place, at least it can be said we didn’t take fourth or fifth place according to Toledo takes third place in liveable-city competition:
The award was announced in London, where a delegation of Toledo officials and community members went to compete for the award. In Toledo’s category, Malmo, Sweden was first, [...]

Earlier today I participated in a press conference call via phone since the scheduled in person press conference was changed due to the weather conditions. The main topic of the press conference was related to the higher gas prices we are facing here in NWO and as a state and a nation and what [...]

One of the major speculations for many of us has been who are the primary investors involved in the FDS Coke Plant, LLC. There has been very limited information on this project, previously all that’s been stated in the media is the primary company behind this is U.S. Coking Group which is out of [...]

In her Sunday column, Roberta de Boer pens, City hall Scout ban barking up wrong tree. Having had the discussion of Scout here several times, I know there are strong opinions on this topic, but personally? I think Roberta nailed the issue, my favorite part of the column:
But, c’mon, people …
There are rules, [...]

I’m a bit behind in my normal weekend blogging, taking some time to spend with my family where we had our traditional Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. If you haven’t headed over to read the Toledo Free Press yet, there are some great articles in this week’s edition, starting with the cover story on Waterville’s [...]

This in via email from the Robin Weirauch for Ohio’s Fifth District campaign:
Updated 1:48 p.m.: Press Conference has been switched to a conference call instead due to the weather conditions…I plan to be involved with more details to follow.
Senator Sherrod Brown, Robin Weirauch Discuss Need to Lower Gas Prices for Northwest Ohio Families
Brown, [...]

As I read this in this morning’s Blade article, 5th District race seen as indicator for 2008, which stated in part:
The constituents who live in the city from which she spoke are represented by 9th District U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who, told The Blade earlier this week that Mrs. Weirauch’s success or failure will spill [...]

I have my granddaughter for a few hours today, so for those of you interested in the baby update…a picture taken just a few minutes ago…

As I’m sure you immediately noticed, Glass City Jungle has a new look, I still have some tweaking to do to get things where I want them to be but I did manage to swallow my fear and proceeded with a badly needed upgrade to the Wordpress I was using since I had not upgraded [...]

This in via email from the Robin Weirauch for Ohio’s Fifth District campaign:
On Black Friday, Robin Weirauch Demands Washington Ensure our Kids Our Safe from Toxic Toys
Bowling Green, OH — On Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, Ohio’s 5th congressional district candidate Robin Weirauch stood in front of a toy store to [...]

In memory of Thanksgiving day my well wishes to all of you and some quotes I found of interest relating to Thanksgiving that I hope you enjoy:

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Thanksgiving is an [...]

My first thought when I read, North Toledo man collapses while trying to protect house from blaze was why there was a delay in the fire department being sent to the blaze that created the scenario of:
John Szych, 63, was using a garden hose to spray water on his home at 522 Bronson Ave. so [...]

Perhaps I’m being overly simple minded but I don’t understand why the City is buying Dillard’s only to turn around and sell it to Larry Dillin for the same price as what we bought it for. Why didn’t Larry Dillin just buy the Dillard’s property himself?
I don’t understand what the advantages would be of [...]