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Riverside Students hold drive-thru voter registration

Jeff McGinnis

Students at Riverside Elementary are working with the League of Women Voters to present a Drive-Thru Voter Registration Drive on Wednesday, September 30. The...

One box for 400,000 people? City of Toledo files brief in support of ballot lawsuit

Jeff McGinnis

UPDATE 9/16: Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Richard Frye ruled against the one-drop-box-per-county directive on September 15, stating that the limit was was "arbitrary...

Mayor declares gun violence a public health crisis

Jeff McGinnis

Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and Toledo Chief of Police George Kral held a news conference to officially declare gun violence a public health crisis.

How COVID-19 affects voting for this upcoming election

Digital Media

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

Digital Media

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

Sean Nestor

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

TCP Staff

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

Johnny Hildo

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

Sean Nestor

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?

Johnny Hildo

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

Sean Nestor

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

Sean Nestor

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

Johnny Hildo

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

Johnny Hildo

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

Johnny Hildo

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

Johnny Hildo

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...

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