Paying for mistakes
On Sept. 17 , A Blade story detailed foreclosure assistance to a local couple, Timothy and Michelle Moll. According to the article, with help they were able to reduce their mortgage loan from $55,000...
View ArticleLook at Issue 35, with interest
The Toledo Public Schools has a bond issue on the November ballot to allow the school system to borrow more money for the school building project. Issue 35 asks voters to approve bonds for the purpose...
View ArticleThurber blog: TPS students do levy campaign work in class
On her blog, Toledo Free Press columnist and WSPD “Eye on Toledo” host Maggie Thurber is reporting that TPS students are apparently doing levy campaign work in class. “So here we have an internal...
View ArticleObama shares the wealth
Much has been said about Sen. Barack Obama’s comment to “Joe the Plumber” about “sharing the wealth,” and many people seem to agree that the “rich” should pay more in taxes than the ‘poor’ or the...
View Article2008 election reflections
Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama. If his efforts on the ground in Toledo were any indication of his Election Day efforts across the nation, he will have his organization and Hillary...
View ArticleSpending, budgets, and remembering whose money it is
Everywhere you turn these days, you find discussions of spending and budgets. Governments, businesses and organizations are issuing dire predictions of gloom and doom if they don’t get more money from...
View ArticleGovernment meddling in digital television costs billions
Do you have a digital television? Are you one of the people with an analog set who still use antennae — rabbit ears, we used to call them? Are you worried about what will happen at midnight on Feb. 17,...
View ArticleThe end of an error
By the time you’re reading this, it will be almost over: Four long, hard, grueling years of national embarrassment, local incompetence and stunted economic growth, all the result of what history may...
View ArticleWilson: Offering educational solutions
Unfortunately, not everyone listens to WSPD or reads Toledo Free Press. If they did, we would be well on the road to solving the embarrassing, expensive and dysfunctional problem that is the Toledo...
View ArticleLeFebvre: Toledo has the location, now we need action
Location, location, location. Every real estate agent worth his or her salt knows the importance of those three little words in making a sale. So why hasn’t any Toledo politician in the past 50 years...
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