Glass City Jungle

I’m heading out here in a bit to hop on my golden TARTA chariot to head downtown to the Civic Mall where Tent City will be held starting this afternoon until Sunday. If you have donations of clean warm winter clothing such as coats, there will be a collection point downtown where you can [...]

This in via email from the Sears for Ohio House District 46 campaign:
Rep. Barbara Sears Endorsed by Mechanical Contractors Association of Ohio
Dayton, OH – MCAO (Mechanical Contractors Association of Ohio) have endorsed the candidacy of State Representative Barbara Sears for House District 46. Here is their statement:

This release in via email from the Owens for Attorney General campaign:
Attorney General Candidate urges “NO” vote on Issue 5
DELAWARE, OHIO – Robert Owens, the Independent candidate for Ohio attorney general, is urging all Ohioans to vote “NO” on Issue 5. A “NO” on Issue 5 would repeal legislation that crushes payday lending businesses [...]

Fox Toledo’s Shaun Hegarty covers the story of what 1Votes is trying to do this weekend as a small part of Tent City. The support we’ve gotten from some of the media, especially Fox Toledo has been very appreciated. Shaun interviewed Ken Leslie and myself for tonight’s piece.

Fox Toledo which also is reporting that The Obama-Biden Campaign Office announced Wednesday evening that Sen. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will be touring the Buckeye State Friday and Saturday during the last weekend of the campaign.
The Bidens’ last scheduled stop in Ohio will be in Bowling Green on Saturday at 5 p.m. The [...]

We were running late, but thankfully arrived just before Presidential candidate Ralph Nader took the stage, the Doermann Theatre was not packed to capacity but there were over 250 people there tonight to hear from Ralph Nader. I’m used to presidential candidates who come in and do just a quick 20 minute, maybe 30 [...]

This in via email from the Owens for Attorney General campaign:
Citizen Coalition endorses Independent candidate for Attorney General
COLUMBUS, OHIO – The Ohio Coalition of Concerned Citizens, formerly known as the Coalition of Concerned Black Citizens, has endorsed Independent Ohio attorney general candidate Robert Owens.
“The Coalition is well known for it’s careful and [...]

Head on over to Fox Toledo’s new web site, www.foxtoledo.com and watch the interview that John McCain did with Laura Emerson while McCain was in Defiance today.
One of the neat features of the site that is still in beta is you can embed video, which will be something I’ll be taking advantage of in the [...]

I received this by email and it made me think back to when the Blade decided to include the DVD “Obsession” as a paid insert. There was one article but it was written as a part of coverage of a press conference held by those in the community, muslim and others who took issue [...]

The “This Strikes Us” in this week’s Sojourner’s Truth gives us a reminder in the title, Don’t Forget the Other Candidates. Which is an important reminder since we have spent a great deal of focus on the presidential, it’s also kind of hard to get excited about the local races when only one incumbent [...]

Two items of interest on the economic job front Proposed coking plant gets state’s OK to build and Work to begin on UT business incubator.
There’s also a piece on a South Toledo Intermodal.

Tomorrow night at Doermann Theatre, University Hall, 2810 West Bancroft St, (the University of Toledo) Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader will be appearing for a rally that will also focus on his plan for health care reform as well as other issues important to residents of NWO. The event is scheduled to begin at 8:00 [...]

I’ve notified my hosting provider and they are working on the issue though it appears to be intermittent. There has also been some of your comments that have been marked as spam, and some spam that came through as comments again. So, if your comment temporarily ends up in moderation, please rest assured [...]

Fox Toledo is reporting that Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s suggestion to shut down all non-essential government businesses for three days in November and December. Is meeting resistance from the Toledo Police Patrolmans Association. You can watch the video after the fold…

This in via email from the Jackie Brown for Senate Campaign
Birds of a feather truly flock together.
The tactics used by Barbara Sears were grounds for the Toledo Blade to endorse her opponent.
Now, Blade endorsement safely in hand, her cohort Mark Wagoner has joined her in allowing this despicable behavior on [...]

This in via email from the Sears for Ohio House District 46 campaign:
Ohio Elections Complaint Filed Against Darlene Dunn
Sylvania, OH – House District 46 candidate Darlene Dunn and the Ohio Democratic Party have recently released television and printed ad campaigns against State Representative Barbara Sears that claim Rep. Sears would support a plan for health [...]

This is noteworthy because what has happened all too often in Ohio is we are the state that sees jobs leave and go to another state. In this scenario, Jackson, Tenn losing 400 jobs that are coming to Findlay, Ohio.

Employees from Jackson “will be invited to apply” for the jobs in Findlay, but the [...]

The irony is our Chief of Police is correct in saying in the Blade:
“If it wasn’t Joe the Plumber, we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation,”
Anyone who believes that the LEAD’s system as well as other databases have not been gone into by those who have access not only here in Lucas County but [...]

He’s planning on starting covering the event live at 10:00 a.m. Visit him on Swampbubbles here if you want to follow along what he is seeing/hearing.

President Bill Clinton will return to Ohio Thursday with campaign events in Toledo and Youngstown.
President Clinton will campaign for Barack Obama and discuss the Obama/Biden plan to create new jobs in Ohio, cut taxes for middle class families, and strengthen our economy, the Obama campaign announced Tuesday.
Blade
And Fox Toledo has more details:
Clinton will be at [...]

Think that the President’s approval ratings of 25 percent is bad? Or Congress having only an 18% approval rating? Well according to Michael Graham, Objective Journalism is the big looser with only eight percent of Americans polled who felt reporters were objective and not favoring either candidate.
It’s interesting if you look [...]

The Toledo Free Press has the story:
An Oct. 28 Toledo Police Department news release stated Toledo Police Records Clerk Julie McConnell, has been charged with “Gross Misconduct” for allegedly making an improper inquiry into a state database in search of information pertaining to Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16.
As the story also reports, [...]

If we really cut to the chase to what the Toledo City Council Resolution was about, it was several Council members, led by Councilman Collins to attempt to have more transparency when it came to the Mayor’s appointment of people on boards. It’s really that simple. Most times Council has no information on [...]

This in via email:
Toledo, OH – Scholar, activist and current director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, Dr. Raymond Winbush, will facilitate an interactive discussion on race among Toledo area residents on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 from 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm at the McMaster Center located in the Main Branch [...]

I received an email on Friday letting me know that on the TARTA website there is a link to two different surveys one for those who ride TARTA and one that is a general public survey that can be done whether you ride TARTA or not. I did not want this buried since the [...]

If you did not get a chance to read the Blade’s endorsement for Jeanine Perry for Recorder who is the only Lucas County official who is not running unopposed this election, I recommend reading it.
What was interesting is that the Blade while endorsing Perry gave kudos to her opponent, Mary Roshong for being the only [...]

If you missed watching this week’s Saturday Night Live? First time that I’m aware of that they had someone to play “Michelle Obama” that had everyone here laughing…

I’ve never understood the reasoning why any public official would put on a fake front about an issue then write public record documents that demonstrate that’s not how they really feel. The Blade article titled, City of Toledo eager to unload Erie Street market shows us that what was happening behind the scenes, is [...]

The cover story of this week’s Toledo Free Press is an interview with John Glenn on the topic of Science education key to U.S. competitiveness. While the former astronaut and Senator supports the COSI levy, the interview provides some indepth material on more than COSI, no matter your position on that local levy issue, [...]

Today I had the opportunity to be the only “media” that attended the press conference to unveil the Community Garden that is starting at Rock of Ages Church, which is located at 4460 South Avenue. One of the things I want to focus more on is what is being done in our community [...]