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How COVID-19 affects voting for this upcoming election

Ohioans are encouraged to vote by mail and polling places are changing protocols to ensure social distancing regulations. by Aubreyonna Van Hoose American citizens are concerned...

HILDO 9/9/2020: Only in it for the perks

Motivating factor in City Politics  Last column we renewed some old hack bashing, reminiscing about failed candidates and other losers from the Ghost of City...

The Survey Says. . . Why the census is so important

As of August 24, only 57.2% of Toledo’s known population had completed the census, well below the state’s completion rate of 68.3%.

All About Absentee Voting: What you need to know

Who can request an absentee ballot and when? Any qualified voter may request an absentee ballot right now or at any time before noon on...

Hildo 8-12: Sign Off: Electioneering in a Pandemic

Random thoughts from a randomly functioning mind. Seems about right for that wacky thing called Year Twenty Twenty. Tootling around T Town lately we were...

How Toledo’s recent primary reveals truths about the upcoming Presidential election

Every four years, we are told that the upcoming election may be the most important of our lifetime. Between the recent wave of civil...

Whither the city?

Four elected members of Toledo City Council have disgraced themselves. All four now stand indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy...

Do you know who polices the police? Check out this primer on local reform measures

Following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, police reform— particularly concerning relations between law enforcement and Black citizens— has consumed the national...

How Toledo’s recent primary reveals truths about the upcoming Presidential election

Every four years, we are told that the upcoming election may be the most important of our lifetime. Between the recent wave of civil...

History repeats itself: Lessons from the fall

Another day, another dollar. Or five hundred, or five thousand dollars.      By now we assume you have all heard the sordid tale, if not all...

Sound of Silence: All quiet in City Politics

     Listen.  Can you hear it?      No, not the ominous booming of war zone grade fireworks on the next block over.  Listen between the booms.      See?      Unlike any...

Reckoning: Test day in City Politics

Oh, those halcyon days of the twenty teens. From the depths of the Great Recession, T-Town emerged out the other side on the upswing. Downtown...

Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio: Power and responsibility

To protect and to serve. Five short, simple words on every  Toledo police car that describe a lofty aspiration.  To protect Toledoans.  And to serve us. And...

The new normal in City Politics

Exactly what in tarnation just happened? We sure went through some crazy bull honky, didn't we peeps? Recommendations and mandates coming atcha so fast ‘n...

Leadership in the age of COVID-19: Who will take the reins in City Politics?

In case you missed it, the extended Ohio Primary Election is finally over. It began in mid-February with early voting. It was supposed to end...

Free Fallin’: City Budget Woes Are Here Again

Sometimes we hate it when we're right. Not long ago, as the COVID-19 lockdown began its stranglehold here in the Swamp, we predicted it would...
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