When I saw the June 10 editorial “Yes, there is black racism,” I was deeply disappointed. Not just because now, with a country so deeply and viciously divided and white supremacy emboldened, it seemed inflammatory and unnecessary, but also because it was incorrect.
An apartment building in flames with stunned residents looking on as their homes are lost — this has been a sight repeated in our city this year.
Trump haters start your engines.
Ohio lawmakers are taking a stand in the opioid addiction crisis. As they draft a new budget they are wisely planning to make money available for the expansion of the DART program to the entire state.
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Signage went up on the Renaissance Toledo Downtown Hotel last week as the revamped hotel gets nearer to its grand opening. The hotel has been closed for the past year-and-a-half for a major renovation that has involved nearly every part the property. Chicago-based First Hospitality Group Inc. has said the total cost of the renovations is likely to be about $25 million. When it reopens this summer, it will have 241 guest rooms, a restaurant, and a rooftop bar.
If Quality Care Properties Inc. were to take over the business side of HCR ManorCare, the Toledo-based nursing home operator that owes it hundreds of millions of dollars in back rent, it is unlikely that the Maryland real estate investment trust would gut the Toledo corporate office, at least initially, a number of experts told The Blade.
Betty Jane Sherer, who helped break barriers for women with her career in banking, died Wednesday at Hospice of Northwest Ohio. She was 87.
Finding $8.2 million sitting idle in a Toledo fund is always a good thing for a city that routinely tries to scrape together enough money to fill the worst of the potholes that cause bone-jarring rides on its streets.
Libbey Inc. is betting big on a new online sales platform that top executives say is crucial for shoring up its retail business and getting the company back on a growth track after several years of stagnant revenues.
PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — A 19-year-old man from suburban Columbus died Friday evening after he was shocked by an electrical current in the water around his family’s boat as it was moored at a local marina.