By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 21 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner will be spending more than a week in Honduras in late March, building roads and shelters for the victims of Hurricane Mitch. The mayor will be leading dozens of Toledo volunteers to three cities, where they will be helping to rebuild the infrastructure the […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 Councilman Bob McCloskey is starting a campaign – and his term doesn’t end for nearly three years. The campaign is to persuade people that East Toledo is the best site for a new ballpark for the Toledo Mud Hens. And he’s recruiting helpers from Toledo’s eastern suburbs. […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 Toledo is in the best shape it’s been in for years, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner says, and it can get even better if citizens pull together and work at it. “We have already set the tone for the next century,” the mayor said last night in his State […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 When Mayor Carty Finkbeiner decided to throw a private party at the Erie Street Market for the State of the Union address earlier this week, he got to rent the place for free because he’s the mayor. But, after criticism from area Republicans, the mayor has decided […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner has a message for the three North Toledo residents who have so far refused to sell their houses to make way for the Jeep plant: See you in court. “We will not be extorted to appease the very few remaining holdouts,” he said. Throwing […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 The Toledo city council approved the sale of 213 acres of city-owned land in Monclova Township last night, but the deal could hit a snag. Eclat Development, Ltd., a local partnership formed about a year ago, has agreed to buy the land for $6.2 million. The council […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 HCR ManorCare, Inc., finally might get the go-ahead tonight to move into the Summit Center. The council is expected to approve the development agreement that will move the newly merged nursing home giant into the 16-story downtown building. The city will contribute a $1.5 million grant to […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 If your street didn’t get plowed during this month’s snow storms, Toledo’s budget-cutting bureaucrats may be partly to blame. Toledo has far fewer plows for use on residential streets than it did 10 or 20 years ago. The reason: Over the years, the city chose to save […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner has fought many times with city council before – but the council has never hit back. That is, until Councilman Bob McCloskey decided Thursday night that he had had enough. With the mayor repeatedly pointing his finger in the councilman’s face and obscenities flying […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 From the start of his first meeting as chairman of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board, G. Ray Medlin signaled that 1999 will bring changes to the board. He taped a small road sign below his nameplate in Maumee’s city council chambers. It read: “Work Area Ahead.” […]