Politics and Opinions

To Protect and To Serve—Whither the Thin Blue Line?

Johnny Hildo

With cool heads, and clear motives, we must move forward. Police refer to themselves as the thin blue line between civilization and chaos. Let us ask ourselves as a community.

Nobody’s Perfect: Keeping it Real in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

What do you expect? We live in a representative democracy. That means we don’t vote directly on policy issues.

Moving the Transition: Transporting City Politics

Johnny Hildo

For the future of the region, TARTA is an important piece, not just a token!

The Torch Is Passed: Fear The Elephant

Johnny Hildo

Will the Lucas County Democratic Party recognize the potential sea change in the election of Wagoner, stop the counterproductive infighting, pull together and step up their game?

Hack Attack: Survival Guide for Festival Season

Johnny Hildo

You can’t miss ‘em. They travel in swarms, with identical logos on their sweat-stained Ts, hawking stickers and wielding clipboards. They swoop down on the unwary festival goer with a simple greeting that belies their rapacious hunger for your affirmation. “Are you a registered voter?”

Road Blocks: Impediments to Downtown Redevelopment

Johnny Hildo

By the mid-nineties, downtown was a ghostly image of its heyday in the fifties. However, if you’ve lived in these froggy environs for ten years or more, it is unmistakable. Downtown is booming.

CAFO Culprits

Johnny Hildo

Interesting, we are the focus of the denizens of the Great Lakes watershed, yet there is no legislation on the horizon, no mandates from State (or Federal but, then, Secretary Pruitt is another matter altogether) lawmakers, no real plans for dealing with this impending disaster of unusable water.

Toledo In Black And White: The Mayor’s New Agenda

Johnny Hildo

The agenda, Wade’s Big Ideas and the nagging background necessities, must all take a backseat. The most inscrutable of America’s problems has reared its ugly, bitter head, and Wade must take it on immediately lest it consume his mayorship. Racism.

Just Joshin’ Around: Turnover and Indecision in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

The LC Dems are looking for a hero.

Fit To Lead? Weighing In (On) Elected Officials

Johnny Hildo

Weighing in (on) elected officials

The Decline and Fall: Time of Reckoning in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

It wasn’t so long ago that the endorsement of the Democratic Party was a cherished prize in Lucas County. It routinely ensured victory in this Democratic stronghold. From new candidates to appointees, old hands and has-beens, an endorsement meant electoral bliss.

The Very Best of City Politics; And the winner is…

Johnny Hildo

Some folks accuse of us being too negative, of always finding the gray cloud for every silver lining. But, in the spirit of the good and the great, and the theme of this special issue, we bring you our own paean to the pols of Frogtown USA. This is our Best of City Politics, Hildo-style.

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