By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 14 The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority will nearly double the amount it spends to market Toledo Express Airport in 2000, if the port board adopts next year’s proposed operating budget. The spending plan, debated at a meeting of the port board’s finance committee yesterday, raises the airport’s marketing […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 Continuing over the next few weeks, The Blade will look at the significant events of the last 100 years and earlier and consider what the future might hold. Included will be a series of profiles about influential Toledoans of the 20th century. Today’s story is another of […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Controversial WSPD radio host Scott Sloan has been suspended indefinitely while he undergoes sensitivity training, and corporate officials will be keeping a closer eye on his colleague at WVKS, Denny Schaffer. Mr. Sloan apologized for some remarks and he and Mr. Schaffer will have to apologize for […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 A top executive of Clear Channel Communications, the corporate giant that employs two controversial Toledo radio hosts, apologized for their conduct and said they will not be allowed to offend again. “We certainly don’t condone the actions by our people,” said David Crowl, Clear Channel’s senior vice […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Toledo chapter has called for the firing of two local radio “shock jocks” and a boycott of advertisers on their controversial programs. “We do not need and will not tolerate the behavior of a few to destroy what […]
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By Joshua Benton and Michael D. Sallah Blade Staff Writers Page 1 Less than 24 hours after WSPD’s Scott Sloan was suspended for remarks about assassinating the Rev. Jesse Jackson, WVKS colleague Denny Schaffer was on the air offending local black leaders and making Jewish jokes. In the space of two hours yesterday, Mr. Schaffer […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 BELFAST — On the surface, it looks like any other cookie-cutter, working-class neighborhood in Europe. Small, dull houses are pushed up against one another, with a few tiny patches of green grass poking through the gray tones. But look a little closer at this two-block housing development […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A8 Throughout the three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland, those on both sides have looked to America as one of their greatest resources. And why not: There are more than seven times as many Irish-Americans as there are Irish. “They’ve played an important part in the conflict […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Our images of the Pilgrims are straight out of second grade: happy, placid people, sitting around a big table with peaceful Indians, eating turkey with cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. It’s a caricature ready-made for 7-year-olds, and almost four centuries after the landing at Plymouth, it’s almost […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Several local officials and businessmen seem to have no problem with G. Ray Medlin, Jr., being chairman of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board and Toledo’s new development director. “He’s bright, articulate, and high batteried,” said port board member George Ballas. “There won’t be any conflicts.” But […]