Franklin Park Land Use Plan
Participate in the Toledo 20/20 Land Use Plan for the Franklin Park Neighborhood. Neighborhood input is needed to help in updating the Land Use Plan for the City of Toledo. The Franklin Park Neighborhood is bounded by the Michigan state line, Secor Road, Central Avenue, and Sylvania Township.
Wednesday October 15, 2008
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
A group of neighbors in Toledo's Vistula Historic District are seeking to vote their precinct "dry" - a move aimed at two carryouts they say are magnets for crime and problems.
"We're tired of this," said Lonnie Homan, leader of the area Block Watch, gesturing to one of the carryouts in question.
Cordray says he knows nothing about it and also says the 37% increase of business to Wachovia is not related to donation. Donation could be illegal because it was funneled through another person possibly done to skirt campaign finance limits. Kudos for the Dayton Daily News for asking questions and follow-up.
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Any means to win I guess, even if dead people have to vote.
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Sam Phillips remembers the flood of 1973, when a few inches of rocks protected his Point Place house from the crashing waves of Lake Erie.
The water threatened, but it never entered his Lakeside Avenue house. Others in Point Place, though, weren't as lucky.
In addition to ordering three layoffs and shuffling seven employees into new positions yesterday, the Finkbeiner administration said it wants to use unspent 2008 capital improvement money to help balance the potential $7 million sinkhole in Toledo's general operating budget.
Cleveland, Ohio – October 2, 2008. MyOhioNow /Issue 6 announced today that a recent study from Michigan Consultants (a national market analysis firm) found that a proposed Ohio casino would generate approximately $255 million in payments to Ohio counties, and would ultimately be responsible for adding over 8,700 jobs to the state.
CINCINNATI - Officials want to see more green roofs on building tops in Cincinnati.
The City Council on Wednesday became the first in Ohio with a plan to channel grants and loans to residents and businesses to replace tar and shingles with vegetation.
The sky is falling for sure on the American financial sector! Marcy and Bob talk about it on the Troy Neff Show. Listen to two interviews that the competition could not get.
Morning Podcast:
Owners of the Southwyck Shopping Center in South Toledo and Finkbeiner administration officials are proceeding with plans to raze the vacant mall, but Perrysburg developer Larry Dillin will no longer be the go-between for the parties, after many months in that role.
In an attempt to bolster the controversial new entertainment venue created with taxpayer money at the city-owned Erie Street Market near downtown Toledo, the Finkbeiner administration unsuccessfully sought to attract promoters to book shows at the building.
Lamar Advertising Co. will move its regional sales and marketing office back to downtown Toledo after eight years on Matzinger Road, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner announced yesterday.
The company plans to move 21 employees to 116 South Erie St. and it will spend slightly more than $2 million to purchase and renovate the vacant building.
At a press conference today, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner spoke about the submission of an incentive package to City Council, aimed to keep HCR ManorCare in Toledo. For the last year-and-a-half, the City of Toledo's Department of Development and the Ohio Department of Development, have been working with Lt.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of National City Corp (NCC.N) dropped more than half on Monday as investors wondered which regional bank might need a merger partner as the sector suffered what analysts called a deepening crisis of confidence.
The big Ohio bank slid $2, or 52 percent, at $1.70 on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock fell more than 25 percent on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government is giving Ohio more than $258 million dollars to help areas hurt by the foreclosure crisis.
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TOLEDO (WTOL) - A building collapse in downtown Toledo has a 11th St. closed.
Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, one building was being torn down on 11th near Avondale and Moorish and fell into another building.
Toledo-area consumers have paid some of the highest electricity rates in Ohio for long enough and consumers should demand a break, a Toledo City councilman and two Lucas County commissioners said yesterday.
The mountain-climbing, desert-traversing Jeep Wrangler could be headed on a new adventure: to an electric outlet.
Manufacturer Chrysler LLC yesterday unveiled an electric-drive prototype of the Toledo-built model intended to go 400 miles — about the distance between northwest Ohio and Knoxville, Tenn.— on eight gallons of gas.
(Columbus,Ohio, Sept. 22)- The Ohio AFL-CIO has endorsed Issue 6, Ohio's Resort Casino that will be on the November 4th statewide ballot.
"The Ohio AFL-CIO supports Issue 6 because it will create good jobs and the revenue stream will stimulate the economy at the state and local levels, " said Joseph P. Rugola who is the President of the Ohio AFL-CIO.
A downtown building which for years beginning in the 1930s was home to a pair of popular drug stores is reverting to use as a store.
Businessman Jacques "Jack" Eid and his wife, Rania, have spent nearly $300,000 to rehabilitate a 111-year-old building at Madison Avenue and North Michigan Avenue into space for a store and adjoining restaurant.
The United Way of Greater Toledo is moving forward with its project to build a new, smaller home on its downtown site.
The agency submitted its site plans yesterday to the city's plan commission.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s elections chief was sued again Monday for suggesting that counties reject absentee ballot requests printed by John McCain’s presidential campaign that were not completely filled out.
Likely Toledo mayoral candidate Keith Wilkowski yesterday proposed putting a $5 million solar panel field atop the Dura Avenue Landfill that could generate electricity for the city while further energizing northwest Ohio's burgeoning solar energy industry.
It's here, animal lovers! Care2 is proud to announce America's Favorite Animal Shelter contest! Help your favorite animal shelter or rescue group win $10,000 by helping them get the most votes in our new contest!
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A new species will soon be joining the Walleye in the fish tank.
The formation of a new arenafootball2 franchise that will begin play at the new downtown sports arena in April, 2010, is expected to be announced today at an 11 a.m. news conference.
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Chris will speak at the Bowling Green Rotary Club luncheon on 10/30