6/6/2013 12:00 AM
NFL player learns of hard road for baseball brethren
BY ERIN HENDERSON
As I arrived at Fifth Third Field, where the Toledo Mud Hens play their home games, I could not help but feel as if I had underestimated what it takes to make it in major league baseball. …

6/3/2013 12:00 AM
Why driverless cars are a bad idea
BY TOM WALTON BLADE COLUMNIST
Driverless cars are not the future — they are here. California, Nevada, and Florida, all have passed laws allowing robotic cars. …

6/2/2013 12:37 AM
Climate-change editorial reflected scientific consensus
BY JACK LESSENBERRY BLADE OMBUDSMAN
Reader Ralph Russo of Findlay was unhappy that an editorial in The Blade on May 25 talked about the disastrous and growing effects of climate change and rising carbon dioxide levels. …

6/2/2013 12:21 AM
New TPS chief pins his hopes on city’s pride
BY DAVID KUSHMA BLADE EDITOR
Romules Durant is attracting plenty of attention around Toledo. So is his lapel pin. …

6/2/2013 12:18 AM
Integrity of the person; mystery of greatness
BY KEITH C. BURRIS BLADE COLUMNIST
Two weeks ago, I attended a memorial service for Eugene “Budd” Gauger, a former editor at this newspaper. I hadn’t seen Budd in, I think, some 20 years, and I hadn’t worked with him in 25. When I worked at The Blade the first time, many years ago, he edited “Behind the News.” …

5/31/2013 8:23 PM
The best advice to graduates: Be good citizens
BY MARILOU JOHANEK BLADE COLUMNIST
It is the customary send-off for generations of students. Behold the wisdom, warning, and wit of the time-honored graduation speech. …

5/31/2013 12:00 AM
Mackinac conference
BY JACK LESSENBERRY BLADE OMBUDSMAN
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Every year, the political and business elite of Michigan troop north to Mackinac Island, a tourist area otherwise known for horse-drawn carriages, the ever-present smell of fudge, and a hotel with the longest front porch in the world. …

5/30/2013 12:00 AM
It’s time for U.S. to end the inhumane practice of torture
BY TARUNJIT SINGH BUTALIA
Equality, the ability to treat all people with dignity, is a valuable principle to strive toward but difficult to achieve. As an American and a Sikh, I make it a guiding principle in my life. …

5/26/2013 7:18 PM
New Pakistani leader faces tall order of issues
BY S. AMJAD HUSSAIN BLADE COLUMNIST
Recent elections in Pakistan reaffirmed that Pakistanis, like people elsewhere in the world, are democratically inclined and wish to live a life free of poverty and violence. They do not want to be pawns in a global game of chess. …

5/26/2013 12:00 AM
Patience more than a virtue for Clinton
BY DAVID SHRIBMAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Don’t be spooked by the dateline. Nothing going on here. Presidential race hasn’t started. No cause for worry about debates, delegate counts, stump speeches. Not for a long time, maybe a very long time. Read on without peril. …