Glass City Jungle

I wanted to share the video but I didn’t want to create any copyright issues, so I headed off to YouTube to find the song written by Jon Stainbrook’s company, Sonic Tailor (The site has now been pulled and the video is no longer online, the Google cache still shows the site but the [...]

This in via email:
Dear Chairman Stainbrook,
I am in receipt of your letter dated June 26, 2008. I must respectfully decline your request that I resign my position on the Lucas County Board of Elections.
I was appointed to the Lucas County Board of elections to fill an unexpired term on April [...]

This situation brings up memories for me of when several years ago one of my daughters who was not yet an adult became sucked into the whole PETA marketing machine, she believed she could not drink milk because it contained pus, and she knew this had to be true because it said so on the [...]

The Blade article from this weekend on the sentencing of Michael Gagnon and the family of Michael Gagnon did not speak to the media then, but two of them did speak to Troy Neff, his father, Michael Gangon, Sr. and Clara Gagnon, his mother.
Part of the discussion was related to a post that [...]

Ah, yes, the Fourth of July is approaching, that holiday where we are supposed to celebrate our freedom and independence and where many seem to show that by breaking the law when it comes to shooting off fireworks. As part of the Blade article that focuses on the price increase because of a market [...]

For an interesting take on the proposal made by Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop, I recommend reading this Toledo Journal article. Unfortunately they don’t archive their stories so the link will most likely not be live after next week. Some of the points made:
While the ”Job Corps” Mr. Konop proposed would have paid [...]

When Justin Kalmes of the Toledo Free Press contacted me last week to ask me if after reading the AP piece ” Everything seemingly is spinning out of control,” would I like to comment I didn’t realize it was going to be the cover story of this week’s Toledo Free Press. Not all of [...]

It should go without saying that no one wants a Toledo police officer or any police officer to be harmed by a dog. If it comes down to an unavoidable life or death decision of the dog over the officer it’s established practice that the police officer has the authority to shoot and kill [...]

While I don’t like to jump to assumptions, it seems clear from the reporting in the Blade that the 54 year old woman was living in the shed:
The body was covered with a blanket and lying on its side in an eight-foot shed with a missing door behind a business at 5225 Southwyck Blvd., near [...]

This in via email from the office of Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz:
Lucas County Treasurer Mails 2nd Half Real Estate Tax Bills
Bills for Second Half of 2007 are due July 31, 2008
Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz announced today that his office has begun to mail the real estate tax bills for the second half of [...]

I wrongly assumed with the type of problems that District One Councilwoman Wilma Brown was describing that she was referencing Type B Day Cares, because Type A’s face quite a bit more regulations now. However, after reading parts of the legislation on Maggie Thurber’s blog it’s clear that Type A’s are the target of [...]

The common thought by many seems to be, “Casinos are inevitable, it’s a way that politicians can raise taxes without raising taxes. It’s just like state lotteries.” Yet all we have to do is look up north to Detroit to be able to get some realistic hints as to what we could expect if [...]

This media release in via email:
Rep. Ujvagi Honored with Three Veteran’s Awards
Toledo Lawmaker Recognized for Advocacy of Military Causes
COLUMBUS – Three separate veteran’s organizations are honoring State Representative Peter Ujvagi (D-Toledo) with prestigious awards to recognize his tireless advocacy on behalf of military members and their families.
This past Saturday, the Vietnam Veterans of [...]

If you haven’t headed over yet to see who’s blogging about what in this week’s Carnival of Ohio Politics? No better time than the present to make a click over with this week it being Ben of the Keeler Political Report and The Point taking his turn at putting out the hits. One [...]

This in via email:
Governor Statement on Supreme Court Decision Affirming Right to Bear Arms
Columbus, Ohio – Governor Ted Strickland today issued the following statement regarding the US Supreme Court decision affirming American’s right to bear arms:
“I concur with today’s landmark decision by the US Supreme Court, which emphasizes what so many have long understood: [...]

First what appears to be good news, Erie Street Market draws encore as concert venue and the City is expecting to earn $10,000 to $15,000 per event. The interesting side part of the article has my selective history warning bells going off again:
Mr. Croak, who operated the former the Main Event in East Toledo, [...]

As always when I sit down to read the Sojourner’s Truth I head for the “This Strikes Us” column to see what the editorial opinion is this week. Sometimes it touches on one topic, others like this week it covers more than one. The main focus is on Scott High School situation part [...]

My husband just called me to tell me that part of what I said this morning on Troy Neff had to be “bleeped” out. We were talking about 1Matters and I said Ken had assigned my role as “making people give a shit”. I didn’t realize that the word was one of those [...]

With a curtsy to Matt over on the Naugblog he points out a news report on WSYX reporting that Assistant Ohio Attorney General Jennifer Urban is now claiming that Leo Jennings and Anthony Gutierrez sexually harassed her and that her relationship with Jennings was not of a consensual nature.
I’m not going to weigh [...]

Times are tight, fuel prices are up and I think we all can understand that at times when companies consolidate services that jobs can be lost. That said, there is a huge amount of concern that the recent decision by DHL to consolidate services with UPS will eliminate 8,000 jobs directly in Wilmington, Ohio [...]

Just a short time ago I participated in the first telephone conference held by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation with David Walker, it’s been creatively titled, “How Screwed R U” and is an additional method of getting information out in addition to their recent townhall tour series called the “Fiscal Wake up Tour.” [...]

It sounds logical when you read this in the Blade, Toledo says Marina District bonds won’t alter debt limit especially this part:

Fran Song, Toledo’s debt management officer, said the general obligation bonds included in the financing structure would be paid off through assessments on Marina District property and not affect the city’s ability to borrow.
City [...]

If you read between the lines in this Blade article, Brunner promises ‘foolproof’ statewide system for election “foolproof” doesn’t mean fast, especially with the push for the paperballot which in our county which has the touchscreen machines (the purchase of those ordered by Ken Blackwell for those who remember) over the optical scan that Jennifer [...]

As a previous Springfield Township resident, a frustration expressed from time to time was the lack of TARTA services, but it was very clear that the Township Trustees were not interested. An article in the Maumee Mirror on the topic of “TARTA Sales Tax Proposal Doesn’t Sit Well With Trustees” is an interesting one. [...]

As reported as an update to today’s Blade, Judge grants temporary order halting Toledo’s convenience store licensing law.
The date for the next hearing has not been announced but as it stands now:
A federal judge sided with a group of convenience store owners Tuesday morning and granted a temporary restraining order against Toledo’s new law that [...]

The question asked in the title, is not known, the Ohio Department of Education does not appear to be interested in “educating” any of us when it comes to information such as what was reported in today’s Columbus Dispatch in an article that is about:
A glitch in the school-funding formula awarded some districts extra money [...]

If you haven’t been keeping up to date on what’s happening over at the 1 Matters blog, there’s a post there that shows what can happen when you believe one person matters. Whether you believe in God or don’t believe in God, the post points out how one person who felt as if he [...]

This in via email from a reader sharing some good news:
WTOL is reporting:
Preliminary totals show volunteers collected nearly $100,000 in cash.
If you didn’t donate? There’s still time, Give Autism the Boot.

I received this media release through the news service that I’m subscribed to that I use for my national blog, since it involves Michigan and is stated to be a 300 million dollar project that would create 3,000 jobs I thought it might interest some of you:
DETROIT, June 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Labor groups led by [...]

This in via email from the office of Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak:
COMMISSIONER WOZNIAK CALLS FOR INVESTMENT IN PROVEN ‘ENTREPRENURIAL’ JOBS GROUP
Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak will call for a $10,000 economic development investment in Assets Toledo, Inc., a proven entrepreneurial jobs training program, at a news conference on Monday, June 23, 2008 [...]