Glass City Jungle

Seeing the cover of this week’s Toledo Free Press made me think about this song, especially this part of the song, where it says, Goodbye doesn’t mean forever. I was hoping to be able to say good bye to Karl in person, but that didn’t happen. So, like most of Toledo, what we do [...]

I just got a phone call from one of the special few that were invited to attend the Toledo Obama event, it was stated that it is going to be shown on CSpan. No additional confirmation of this, I have it turned to CSpan now and will keep you updated.
In the comments I [...]

Okay, my oldest daughter arrived for a visit from California, as we were just pulling up in front of the house after her brother and I picking her up at Detroit Airport, I got a call from my husband. He left here Thursday morning to drive to his home town of New London, CT [...]

I wanted to attend yesterday’s hearing but with the family crisis that wasn’t possible. The Blade has a report on yesterday’s hearing and shares some of what was stated.
The proposed law would prohibit “unnecessary, excessive, or offensive” noise that disturbs the peace of neighbors after 9 p.m. The sound would have to be plainly [...]

This in via email:
Ohio Democratic Party Executive Director Doug Kelly issued the following statement today on John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin to be his running mate:
“As voters in Dayton and Youngstown wish him a happy 72nd birthday, John McCain has placed the former mayor of a town of 9,000 just a heartbeat [...]

From CNN:
Thursday night’s arrival of a private jet from Alaska at the Middleton, Ohio, airport raised speculation that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would be McCain’s pick. Middleton is 25 miles from Dayton.

Where does the buck stop? Apparently with Paul Ringlein, Andrew Ferrara and Ken Neidert are the three that will end up taking the public blame for the costs related to transitioning the ESM into a night club. It’s also interesting to note that it appears the painting crew selected by Mr. Croak, [...]

Officials have confirmed an event Sunday in Toledo that will include an appearance from likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, speaking from the Democratic National Convention in Denver said the event is planned for 1 p.m. at the Main Library on Michigan Avenue downtown. The mayor said he was ordering T-shirts that [...]

The “This Strikes Us” in this week’s Sojourner’s Truth was a bit of a surprise, the editorial suggests the key to Obama winning is:
…he has to sink to the Republicans’ level and engage in every possible personal, negative attack against his opponent, Senator John McCain.
The truth is – negativity works and it has been working [...]

Not long ago when I blogged about the Self-Sufficiency Standard for Lucas County it was pretty clear that there are people here in Lucas County who are struggling. This was before the latest unemployment numbers, and before the release of the information today that city of Toledo is now ranked among the nation’s poorest [...]

Besides of that they are both favorites of mine and they both live in Ohio?
2008 Ohio Society for Professional Journalists Awards Winners:
Best Columnist in Ohio
First: Terry Pluto, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Second: Connie Schultz, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Third: Michael S. Miller, Toledo Free Press.

Shaun Hegarty from Fox Toledo reports…
I’ll update more later. Updates:
Blade, NBC24 (only on the Southwyck loan), it doesn’t appear either WTOL or WTVG thought last night’s council meeting was worth coverage on their websites.

As I was reading the article on the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the jockeying already beginning to decide who will replace the recently deceased U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, this caught my attention:
Congressional sources told The Plain Dealer on Monday that national Democratic leaders do not want to reconvene Congress this year, making a special [...]

I’m sitting here waiting for the Toledo City Council meeting to come on and instead it’s some infomercial for “Garden Groom” which struck me as funny and then I started thinking about “Swamp Thing” kind of a mix of plants and bioterrorism…We do live in the Black Swamp area and one item on [...]

The Toledo Free Press reports that George Sarantou was one of the most recent contestants in “Let’s Tour the United Way” today. What were his thoughts after the tour?
“Clearly, building a new structure based on the information I saw would be much more advantageous in the long run,” Sarantou said. “It would take two [...]

No one could pretend that political agendas don’t interfere at times in things getting done in government, local, county, state, national. The problem here in Toledo could be summed up with one phrase, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Which reminds me of this movie clip, from Cool Hand Luke, [...]

I admit I’m not a fan of Extreme MakeOver anymore, I used to be before they went overly crazy on what they were doing with the homes as I reflected on how many people could be helped if the focus was on renovations or not creating mansions that can end up in foreclosure. That [...]

It was interesting that for some reason how the Springfield Public School system is doing was not mentioned in the Blade article about how our local school districts were doing. While my only child left in the public school system does attend Toledo, she used to attend Springfield and that’s where my older four [...]

Sunlight’s Party Time is a project to track parties thrown at the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions as well as fundraising activities by all lawmakers running for Congress that happen all year round in Washington, D.C. and beyond.
Check out their website at – politicalpartytime.org.
You can also follow them on Twitter. [...]

This in via email from the office of Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken:
COMMISSIONER GERKEN TO POSTPONE RESOLUTION FOR LOAN AGREEMENT WITH MAUMEE AUTHORITY STAMPING INC.
Please see the attached memo that Commissioner Pete Gerken sent to his colleagues requesting that the resolution for the Authorization of a Loan Agreement with Maumee Authority Stamping Plant Inc. not [...]

You will notice on your side bar to the right that there is a new feature, it was provided to be able to share some of the thoughts on the convention by current Ohio Treasurer Rich Cordray who is also running for Attorney General. The audio blogging is also on his website but I [...]

There’s been a lot of discussion about the whole five day window when people can register to vote and vote absentee, which becomes even more complicated here in Lucas County since they are moving early voting to a different location. It’s actually a seven day window here in Lucas County and other places that [...]

Robert has an interesting post over on his blog, Whalertly on his regular election map update as well as an interesting story about an Ohio man who tried to pay his court fine payment in pennies. I recommend heading over and joining in the discussion.

The videos for the We will not be silenced done by Gigi Gaston that are said demonstrates fraud in the Democratic Presidential Primary are now online.
I realize this will probably be an issue that some don’t believe happened, but it is something that is being talked about, the belief behind the creation of the videos [...]

I was really surprised that this story didn’t get much coverage in the blogosphere, the only post I found on BNN/Ohio was from The Daily Briefing:
According to the court, the flyer said on one side: “Fed Up With The Mess? Do something about it – Vote Democrat.” The top of the reverse side of the [...]

The title of the cover for this week’s Toledo Free Press is Kapturing the Green which focuses on US Representative Marcy Kaptur’s news that a $1.13 million investment from NASA was coming to the University of Toledo. This would bring the amount of federal dollars for alternative and renewable energy projects in the [...]

Some of you might not be aware of who Sean Tevis is, especially since he’s running for State Representative in Kansas, but he’s taken a creative approach to campaigning that has inspired Jackie Brown who is running here in Ohio for the State Senate for District 2. If you have not yet seen [...]

I woke up yesterday to a chipped tooth which made talking painful, so I rescheduled what I could that required talking but did not want to miss a job interview. Which means my golden TARTA chariot arrived to take me to my destination. After some of the conversations that have taken place here [...]

Yesterday I received a press release from the office of Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz that stated:
Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz will join a Toledo homeowner who recently battled to save her home from foreclosure to discuss how John McCain’s recent comments proves he is out of touch with people in Ohio. [...]

This just came into my email box from Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post:
Slowly but surely the identity of Barack Obama’s vice presidential nominee is coming into focus. That is, we may not know who the pick is but we know who it isn’t.
Neither Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh nor Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will be [...]