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CITY POLITICS GUIDE 2021 – Meet the Candidates

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Helping you decide how to cast your vote! Toledo Mayoral Candidates Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz Age: 48 Education: BA, Marquette University. MA, University of Michigan Experience: City Council, County Treasurer,...

Hildo: We got issues

Johnny Hildo

It’s not just candidates clamoring for your affirmation this Fall. Some of the most iconic area institutions are also asking for your vote to...

Sylvania Area’s Issue 11

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The word “community” suggests a shared purpose, a shared meaning or approach; literally, a common unity. The meaning and the concept of community is...

Hildo: Giving Thanks

Johnny Hildo

As the calendar turns to November, and the weather finally turns toward normal autumn crispness, it’s time to pause and reflect. The past eighteen...

Hildo: Election by the Numbers

Johnny Hildo

In case you missed it, there was a primary election in T-Town a few weeks ago. And. . . most of you missed it,...

We Must Cast A New Vision for Our Young People. Here’s How the American Rescue Plan Can Help.

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Guest Editorial by Rev. John C. Jones and Elizabeth Gaines We are at a critical moment. Programs and services for children have never before received...

Labor Day 2021: Celebrating Labor in Northwest Ohio

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Parade Map Parade sponsored by THE UNITED LABOR COMMITTEE Wayne Blanchard Director, United Auto Workers Region 2B John Clemons President, Toledo Port Council Kevin Dalton President Toledo Federation of Teachers Local 250/ Executive...

Hildo: Blue collar town

Johnny Hildo

Labor and City Politics Happy Labor Day! Here in the swamp, this is a big deal. We’re a place where even executive level working folks are...

Naming names

Johnny Hildo

He has made a liar out of us. We vowed to ignore him. Using him as a punch line is too easy, and thus beneath...

Draggin’ the Line

Johnny Hildo

Question of the day. Where is a road improvement not a transportation improvement?Want proof? Here are the many splendored threads of a million dollar...

HILDO: Blind ambition

Johnny Hildo

As avid readers of our rabid rantings recall, last column we began handicapping this year’s at-large city council race in T-Town. We began with...

HILDO: Leadership still at large: Wide open field in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

It was a typical COVID-19 era meeting of Toledo City Council. A bit phony, a bit droney, a bland, virtual affair. Until the interloper was discovered. And all hell broke loose.

The good place

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Good news in City Politics

The greatest: Best of City Politics

Johnny Hildo

This has been a year like no other in City Politics. Nevertheless, we decided to join the “Best of” theme and sort through the carnage of twenty twenty and come up with a list of our own.

Endless struggle: Another go ‘round in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

It’s the change we need, and the change we’ll never get.

Red tide: Budget woes in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

At least the local election is over. No fussing or whining, no frivolous lawsuits or wild unsupported allegations, no petulance or juvenile pouting. Nope, not...

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