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Celebrating Independence: Join Us In Reading These Time-Honored Documents

TCP Staff

In observance of the 4th of July, we marvel at the durability and forethought in application of the documents which were created to guide...

Four Toledo City Council members accused of accepting bribes

Athena Cocoves

Earlier today, the FBI took several Toledo City Council members into custody. Tyrone Riley, Yvonne Harper, Larry Sykes, and Gary Johnson have been accused...

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...

The new normal in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

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?

Johnny Hildo

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

Johnny Hildo

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...

Prevent The COVID Crisis From Wiping Out The Primary Election

TCP Staff

PRINT OUT A BALLOT APPLICATION, MAIL IT TO THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, COMPLETE YOUR BALLOT, MAIL IT TO THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS POSTMARKED BY...

New Normal: Lessons from the Pandemic

Johnny Hildo

Wow, things sure have changed, huh? The first coupla months of twenty twenty were just swimming along like normal. The Primary season was in full...

Happy days are gone again in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

We were supposed to have the unofficial results of the Ohio primary election to digest and regurgitate. The race to replace John Tharp as...

Winnowing the field

Johnny Hildo

Primary Day in City Politics

Outflow: Wealth transfer in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

It all started back when Collins was a curmudgeonly member of Toledo City Council, and Chair of the Criminal Justice Committee.

Breaking the rules in City Politics

Johnny Hildo

There are several unwritten rules in City Politics. One is you win elections by keeping Party discipline. Another is incumbent judges never lose an...

A taxing proposition

Johnny Hildo

Wade's income tax hike in City Politics

That’s A Wrap Part 2

Johnny Hildo

Remembering the decade in City Politics

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