http://www.toledoblade.com The Latest News from Toledoblade.com (v5) Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:13:38 GMT en-us hourly 1 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/09/to-the-editor-let-s-build-it-so-all-kids-have-beds/stories/20260909005 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/09/to-the-editor-let-s-build-it-so-all-kids-have-beds/stories/20260909005#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:04:03 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/09/to-the-editor-let-s-build-it-so-all-kids-have-beds/stories/20260909005 For the past several years, members of the Perrysburg Exchange Club have been volunteering to assist a local nonprofit called Let’s Build, also known as Let’s Build Beds. This is a charity dedicated to working to ensure that no child in the area is without a bed and forced to sleep on the floor. The organization is run by Mike Horvath and his wife, Shawna, both of whom spend many hours working, above and beyond their regular full-time jobs, volunteering to try to accomplish that goal. Unfortunately, they have reported having a constant waiting list of 600 families requesting beds for their kids, in spite of the production and distribution of almost 2,000 beds every year. “Let’s Build Beds” volunteer Jeff Potter loads beds made by Buckeye Broadband employees on May 28, 2025 at Buckeye Broadband in Northwood. Obrock https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/09/hussain-jewish-terrorists-and-killing-fields-of-west-bank/stories/20260909016 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/09/hussain-jewish-terrorists-and-killing-fields-of-west-bank/stories/20260909016#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:22:12 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/09/hussain-jewish-terrorists-and-killing-fields-of-west-bank/stories/20260909016 A RECENT headline in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz read: “Israeli settlers’ weekend hike. Palestinian teenager killed, home torched, windows smashed.” View of an area in the E1 zone near Maale Adumim, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank Sept. 8. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/09/editorial-honoring-toledoan-steinem/stories/20260909008 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/09/editorial-honoring-toledoan-steinem/stories/20260909008#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:05:43 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/09/editorial-honoring-toledoan-steinem/stories/20260909008 Toledo shaped Gloria Steinem and then Ms. Steinem did much to shape the nation. The feminist icon who did so much to change the status of American women died last Wednesday in her New York City home. Gloria Steinem speaks during the 2021 Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony in Oviedo, northern Spain, Oct. 22, 2021. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/07/editorial-bgsu-models-university-success/stories/20260906049 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/07/editorial-bgsu-models-university-success/stories/20260906049#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/07/editorial-bgsu-models-university-success/stories/20260906049 Ohio has more state-supported universities than current regional demographics and education trends can support. Donald Drumm’s mural extends along the exterior of the William T. Jerome Library on BGSU’s campus on Dec. 17, 2024. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/07/div-class-libpagebodylinebreak-vote-against-maga-if-you-want-change-br-div/stories/20260908016 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/07/div-class-libpagebodylinebreak-vote-against-maga-if-you-want-change-br-div/stories/20260908016#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/07/div-class-libpagebodylinebreak-vote-against-maga-if-you-want-change-br-div/stories/20260908016 As the congressional midterm elections loom, I have questions for the voters. At one of President Trump’s rallies he said that we Americans would grow so tired of winning that we would probably say Mr. President please no more winning we’re tired of it. Well my question is this. Are you tired of winning at the gas pumps, the grocery store, or almost any store for that matter? Are you tired of winning at your pharmacy, the car dealerships, the health insurance companies? Are you tired of winning the tariff wars with our allies? Are you tired of winning America’s excursions into foreign countries? Are you tired of his lying, his disregard for the Constitution, all of his self glorification, his basic lack of ethics, morality, perhaps most of all his ignorance and lack of concern for the ordinary Americans trying to provide for their families. If none of this matters to you by all means continue to vote for his sycophants that lack the backbone to stand up to the charlatan in the White House. U.S.Rep. Bob Latta speaks after touring the Whirlpool plant on April 10 in Clyde. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/2026/09/06/editorial-cartoon-kirk-walters-9-7-26/stories/20260906160 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/2026/09/06/editorial-cartoon-kirk-walters-9-7-26/stories/20260906160#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/2026/09/06/editorial-cartoon-kirk-walters-9-7-26/stories/20260906160 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/06/editorial-labor-inflection/stories/20260907014 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/06/editorial-labor-inflection/stories/20260907014#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/06/editorial-labor-inflection/stories/20260907014 The history of the labor movement in America is one that justly is celebrated with a holiday on the first Monday of September every year. Paris Lewis, left, and her husband David Lewis of AFSCME Local 7, march with their son Obadyah, 10 months, during the Labor Day Parade on Sept. 3, 2023 on Huron Street in Toledo. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/06/to-editor-union-path-secures-future-working-ohioans/stories/20260908003 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/06/to-editor-union-path-secures-future-working-ohioans/stories/20260908003#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/06/to-editor-union-path-secures-future-working-ohioans/stories/20260908003 During my 36 years with Teamsters Local 20 and UPS, I have seen how a union contract can impact a family. Amazon workers strike outside the gates of an Amazon Fulfillment Center as Teamsters seek labor contract nationwide on Dec. 20, 2024, in City of Industry, Calif. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-cartoon-tim-hartman-9-6-26/stories/20260905101 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-cartoon-tim-hartman-9-6-26/stories/20260905101#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:04:27 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-cartoon-tim-hartman-9-6-26/stories/20260905101 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/05/walton-editor-climbing-family-tree-branching-out/stories/20260906043 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/05/walton-editor-climbing-family-tree-branching-out/stories/20260906043#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/05/walton-editor-climbing-family-tree-branching-out/stories/20260906043 For most of my life I was content to know only the bare bones — forgive the bad play on words — of my family history. I knew the life stories of my grandparents and great-grandparents but that was about it. Like many of us, I had neither the time nor inclination to invest the effort required to reach further back and learn everything I could about those who came before me. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-council-politically-profane/stories/20260903033 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-council-politically-profane/stories/20260903033#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-council-politically-profane/stories/20260903033 Toledo City Council’s attempt to take over control of a Toledo Catholic church is an infringement on the church’s property rights. And it’s a costly enterprise with no good exit strategy. Sacred Heart Catholic Church in East Toledo, which will undergo a local landmark designation hearing next week, on Sept. 2. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/05/shribman-aftershocks-911-still-felt-25-years-later/stories/20260906071 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/05/shribman-aftershocks-911-still-felt-25-years-later/stories/20260906071#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/05/shribman-aftershocks-911-still-felt-25-years-later/stories/20260906071 It seems like only yesterday. Tragedies sometimes have that effect. The good times — the triumphs, the moments of joy — aren’t forgotten, but are remembered in a smudge of memory. The great sadnesses remain, the pain persisting, the impact lingering. Even 25 years later, a so­ci­ety with open doors — at its bor­ders and also at its air­ports, its are­nas, its syn­a­gogues, in some ways its minds — has had to rely on new se­cu­rity mon­i­tor­ing. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-acton-debate-decision-damaging/stories/20260906070 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-acton-debate-decision-damaging/stories/20260906070#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/05/editorial-acton-debate-decision-damaging/stories/20260906070 An accepted political wisdom and expected candidate conduct has been “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” since President Harry S. Truman uttered the phrase during turbulent times in office. Dr. Amy Acton speaks during a campaign stop at United Steelworkers Local 1-346 in Toledo on Aug. 4. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/05/to-editor-left-makes-decision-easy-nov/stories/20260906057 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/05/to-editor-left-makes-decision-easy-nov/stories/20260906057#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/05/to-editor-left-makes-decision-easy-nov/stories/20260906057 There are plain choices to be made when a person goes to vote this November between the Left and the Right. Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at a news conference at the base of the Spirit of Detroit monument in Detroit on Aug. 19. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/05/to-editor-conservative-planning-vote-sylvania-schools-levy/stories/20260907004 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/05/to-editor-conservative-planning-vote-sylvania-schools-levy/stories/20260907004#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:45:00 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/05/to-editor-conservative-planning-vote-sylvania-schools-levy/stories/20260907004 I’m a conservative Christian father in the Sylvania school district. My wife and I chose this community because of its reputation for strong schools. We made that decision knowing that we, not the schools, are responsible for our children’s faith and values. Private school was an option, but like most families, our income has its limits. We believed Sylvania’s public schools offered a solid academic foundation while we built faith and character at home. We bought our house intending to stay for life, even choosing a first‑floor bedroom so we’d never have to move again. Sylvania school officials answer questions from tax payers in the district in an informational session about levy intentions at the Sylvania Schools Town Hall on Aug. 26. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/04/to-editor-toledo-should-look-steinem-with-pride/stories/20260905011 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/04/to-editor-toledo-should-look-steinem-with-pride/stories/20260905011#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:45:52 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/04/to-editor-toledo-should-look-steinem-with-pride/stories/20260905011 While I doubt past and current history will credit Gloria Steinem with my assessment of her role in this country’s evolution of civil rights, the facts of her larger-than-life impact on tradition and law are as impressive as the Founding Fathers’ creations of U.S. rights. Gloria Steinem, cofounder of Ms. magazine, speaks on the political subjugation of women and the importance of organizing across racial and social differences, to an audience at the College of Marin in Kenfield, Calif., on Jan. 17, 1973. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/04/to-editor-moreno-right-seek-phone-unlocking/stories/20260905004 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/04/to-editor-moreno-right-seek-phone-unlocking/stories/20260905004#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:36:57 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2026/09/04/to-editor-moreno-right-seek-phone-unlocking/stories/20260905004 Here’s a simple question: is the government making it easier or harder for Ohio families to decide what’s best for them? That could apply to which school your kids go to or the curriculum their education is structured around. But sometimes the subject in question is much simpler. In this case, it’s the phone in your pocket. Sen Bernie Moreno, R Ohio, speaks during an event at the renamed Donald J Trump Institute of Peace on Sept. 3. Schroeder https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/04/editorial-crypto-clarity-needed/stories/20260907007 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/04/editorial-crypto-clarity-needed/stories/20260907007#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:31:44 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/editorials/2026/09/04/editorial-crypto-clarity-needed/stories/20260907007 Cryptocurrency creators are getting behind 9th District Congressional candidate Derek Merrin and that is sure to bring him some campaign cash. Republican candidate for Ohio's 9th congressional district Derek Merrin before a forum on blockchain technology on Sept. 1 at The Mez in Toledo. https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/04/morici-ssi-reform-could-become-a-wealth-tax-trojan-horse/stories/20260904007 https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/04/morici-ssi-reform-could-become-a-wealth-tax-trojan-horse/stories/20260904007#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:30:09 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/opinion/columnists/2026/09/04/morici-ssi-reform-could-become-a-wealth-tax-trojan-horse/stories/20260904007 THE SOCIAL Security crisis is a ruse for populists on the left and right to advance agendas. Social Security Administration sign on field office building.