By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner wants to make sure that the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority doesn’t get involved in efforts to revive the Rossford arena-amphitheater project. “I’m certainly going to stand in the way of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority even entertaining any thought of it,” he said. […]
By Joshua Benton and Brian Nearing Blade Staff Writers Page A1 In the last couple of weeks at the Blossom Music Center near Cleveland, you could have pogo-sticked under the stars to the B-52s or moshed to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. At the Polaris Amphitheater in Columbus, you could have wigged out to the […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 The Toledo Zoo has educated, entertained, and charmed generations of children since its founding in 1900. It has established itself as one of Toledo’s two or three premier cultural institutions and one of the country’s top zoos. The zoo this year opened Arctic Encounter, an $11.5 million […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 WASHINGTON — As the motorcycles rolled slowly by in the afternoon sun, a blinding sea of chrome and leather and noise, Jim Ballinger was smiling. Three decades ago, he was an infantry grunt in Vietnam. He has two Purple Hearts, a few scars, and a host of […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 HOLIDAY CITY, O. — Pat Buchanan says he is running a grass-roots campaign for president. It’s difficult to get closer to the roots than he did last night. Here in the Williams County village of Holiday City – population 50 – a small but vocal crowd attended […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 The early morning sun was burning over Saigon. The streets were rumbling under the weight of North Vietnamese tanks, triumphantly rolling into the old city unchallenged. In little more than an hour, one of them would smash through the gates of the presidential palace, and the war […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 18 CitiFest officials have made an offer to the woman they want to be the organization’s next executive director. After a board meeting yesterday, the organization asked Jan Aguilar, the executive director of the Performing Arts Council of Toledo, to take over the organization, a nonprofit group that […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Toledo council followed through on its threats and last night asked state authorities not to renew the liquor licenses of two East Toledo bars that attracted police attention more than 100 times in 1999. But council members were quick to add that they will reverse themselves if […]
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By Michael D. Sallah and Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writers Page A1 MIAMI — Just before dawn, the ritual begins. A crowd gathers around a modest bungalow, locks arms, and chants the name of the small boy inside. The cameras capture the image, and the rest of the world watches as another day begins in […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 The next time you head out to South Bass Island and your boat approaches Put-in-Bay Harbor, look a little to the right. If you look closely, you might be able to see the beginnings of a controversy. That little body of water on the right is named […]