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How Clint Eastwood made my day
BY TOM WALTON BLADE COLUMNIST
Clint Eastwood is a friend of mine. How’s that for name-dropping? …

Updated 19 hours ago
Toledo's dirty little secret
BY JEFF GERRITT BLADE DEPUTY EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR
This column is one in a series of commentaries this year in The Blade on violence in the Toledo area, and possible solutions. …

5/19/2013 12:48 AM
Abandonment, hope, and a man who hangs in
BY KEITH C. BURRIS BLADE ASSOCIATE EDITOR
A few days ago, I spent a couple of hours riding around blighted Toledo with ex-Mayor Jack Ford and his friend Weldon Douthitt, who was celebrating his 80th birthday. We were surveying the city’s housing stock — some of its many abandoned homes and forgotten neighborhoods. …

5/19/2013 12:35 AM
Still a place on campus for affirmative action
BY DAVID KUSHMA BLADE EDITOR
Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court will answer a fateful question: Does the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law still allow universities to take race into account when they decide which applicants to admit? …

5/19/2013 12:27 AM
Administration scandals cross sacred lines
BY DAVID SHRIBMAN POST-GAZETTE EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Any presidential administration should know better than to mess with the press or the Internal Revenue Service. …

5/17/2013 11:29 PM
Emotional and physical abuse brought into the light in Cleveland
BY MARILOU JOHANEK BLADE COLUMNIST
The decade-long brutality endured by three Cleveland women behind boarded-up doors and windows is a secret no more. …

5/16/2013 7:49 PM
Minority party controls Michigan’s legislature
BY JACK LESSENBERRY THE BLADE’S OMBUDSMAN
LANSING — Once upon a time, legislators felt they had to try to give voters the laws they wanted. True, once in a great while, some took stands on principle that risked angering their constituents. …

5/13/2013 12:00 AM
An honored friend in Arkansas
S. AMJAD HUSSAIN BLADE COLUMNIST
LITTLE ROCK — I went to Arkansas this month to see a friend who was to be honored and to visit a new museum that has a Toledo connection. …

5/11/2013 9:51 PM
Ohio courts shouldn’t bring back debtors’ prisons
BY JEFF GERRITT DEPUTY EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR OF THE BLADE.
You probably won’t feel sorry for Jack Dawley of Norwalk — and he doesn’t want you to. …

5/12/2013 12:18 AM
Son of Cleveland suspect is part of bizarre story
BY JACK LESSENBERRY BLADE OMBUDSMAN
Douglas Neckers, a distinguished professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University, wasn’t happy with a story in The Blade about the son of accused Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. …