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October 22, 2008 | Letters to the Editor FirstEnergy shouldn't raise rates I read with great interest the guest column of Oct. 11 written by FirstEnergy President of Ohio Operations Jim Murray. I respect Mr. Murray and his opinions.
October 22, 2008 | Editorials FOR TPS Issues 34, 35 TOLEDO Public School officials are aware of the financial struggles that most, if not all, taxpayers in the city are wrestling with in the current economic downturn.
October 22, 2008 | Editorials Powell's pitch GEN. Colin L. Powell's endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama was timely and important.
October 22, 2008 | Editorials Happy b-day, Noah WERE he alive today, Noah Webster undoubtedly would be astonished - and really annoyed - to see how the English language has deteriorated into the kind of casualness demonstrated in the headline...
October 21, 2008 | Editorials For Ohio General Assembly THE stakes will be especially high when Toledo and area voters go to the polls on Nov. 4.
October 21, 2008 | Letters to the Editor Sylvania study warrants a serious look On the Nov. 4 ballot is a proposal to form a commission for studying the possible merger of Sylvania and Sylvania Township.
October 20, 2008 | Letters to the Editor Red herrings are not fishy associations The "fishy associations" Blade columnist Jack Kelly cites about Barack Obama are red herrings, distractions from the right-wing stinking fish barrel.
October 20, 2008 | Editorials Not too convenient CONVENIENCE stores got their name from the fact that they often carry items people need at the last minute but don't want to make a run to the supermarket for: diapers, cat food, milk, and the like.
October 20, 2008 | Editorials Keep expectations real BARRING a last-minute revelation that 8-year-old Barack Obama was actually in the room when 1960s domestic terrorist William Ayers laid plans to bomb government buildings, or Americans wake up one...
October 20, 2008 | Editorials Toward a better bailout MAIN Street Americans are furious as they see the fallout from the acts of Wall Street and other financial mismanagers on their lives.
October 18, 2008 | Letters to the Editor Problems with deer need answer There is hunting in Toledo, but we don't use bullets or arrows. We use cars.
October 18, 2008 | Editorials Unprofessional conduct HERE'S a bit of free advice for the teachers and administrators of Trinity Lutheran School in Monroe: It is never OK to strip-search 12-year-old girls.
October 18, 2008 | Editorials Good riff for ‘Rusty' MARGARET 'Rusty' Monroe took a life that could have ended up as a blues ballad and turned it into a jazz anthem without ever playing a note herself.
October 18, 2008 | Op-Ed Columns University of Toledo is an intricate part of Toledo I WAS sitting in Driscoll Alumni Center with a special group of people. They were elected officials, community and business leaders, prominent University of Toledo alumni.