By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 The president of the Mud Hens’ board of directors lashed back at Mayor Carty Finkbeiner yesterday, saying that the mayor’s accusations of a conflict of interest are “silly.” “Everything is incorrect,” Ed Bergsmark said, referring to a letter the mayor sent him Thursday. The letter laid out […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner has lashed out at the president of the Mud Hens board of directors, accusing him of a conflict of interest and a lack of devotion to May’s stadium levy campaign. “This project is too important as part of a larger downtown revitalization to allow […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s proposed 60-day moratorium on demolition permits will get a hearing tomorrow before a council committee. City council’s zoning and planning committee will decide at 9 a.m. if it wants to reverse course and stop a drugstore development it has twice voted to support. The […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 In a surprising show of consensus, council unanimously approved a gun-control ordinance last night, but only after 10 amendments to weaken the bill. The ordinance, with certain exceptions, makes it a crime for anyone to leave a loaded firearm anywhere that someone under age 18 is likely […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Last year, the Toledo Mud Hens were losers on the field and off. The team went 52-89, tying a record for the most losses ever in a Mud Hens season. And voters crushed a proposed tax increase to pay for a new stadium downtown. But like a […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 ProMedica Health System officials have told Mayor Carty Finkbeiner that the company is interested in helping start a downtown health club. “We would be interested in taking a role in a downtown fitness facility, in collaboration with the appropriate mix of civic and business leaders,” said ProMedica […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Here’s a switch: Not having the sun in their eyes may have caused the Mud Hens to drop the ball. An ancient rule of baseball, along with the laws of nature, are presenting a conflict for the proposed East Toledo riverfront ballpark. The planned positioning of the […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 When Denise Williams moved from Houston to Toledo in October, she had one goal in mind: to shorten her job commute. “I lived 27 miles from my job in Houston, and the commute was 1 1/2 or two hours each way,” Ms. Williams said. When she landed […]
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By Joshua Benton and Jack Baessler Blade Staff Writers Page 1 Putting a new Mud Hens ballpark in East Toledo is not the best choice for the city, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said yesterday. And the city’s top economic development official said a stadium on the site proposed by Mud Hens board members is “just not […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 The city of Toledo has failed in hundreds of ways to make facilities accessible to the disabled, a U.S. Department of Justice report says. The 96-page report outlines access problems at 53 structures at which city programs and services are provided. Most violations were only a few […]