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No Crossing Guard for Public School Students In Toledo, Continued
Image by Getty Images via @daylife WNWO reports that the Toledo Public School Board discovered $824,000 in unaccounted for money and will use a portion of that to pay for crossing guards. I stick with my original post (linked below) … Continue reading
Now, That’s A Car Crash
Toledoans awoke this morning to the news that a car traveling at a very high rate of speed on a surface road at 3:30 this morning struck a utility pole and broke into three big pieces and lots of tiny … Continue reading
I’m a Broken Record, Part II
From WNWO: Well people comin by throwin out their rubbish. I mean they throw furniture out there and anything. – Goldie Aldridge, a lifetime North Toledo Resident about the alley behind her house on Melrose Avenue. Image via Wikipedia In … Continue reading
I am a Broken Record.
Image via Wikipedia Those of you old enough to recall listening to LPs will appreciate the metaphor. Believe me, I am tired of writing about this subject, but it won’t go away quietly. So here it goes. I discovered why … Continue reading
Toledo Garbage Trouble, Again.
I hosted a party on Saturday night in honor of my wife’s 50th birthday. I placed a call last week to the City of Toledo Office of Solid Waste to request an extra “bulky” pickup in anticipation of a larger … Continue reading
1,000 Days of Pain, Very Little Gain, Continued.
Image via Wikipedia More of the details of how this massive Promedica / I-475 reconfiguration project will play out was laid out last night at a public meeting held by ODOT at the Sanger Branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, … Continue reading
Posted in F----ng Stupid, Toledo
Tagged moronic, Ohio Department of Transportation, Toledo
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1,000 Days of Pain. Very Little Gain. UPDATED
Image via Wikipedia ODOT is reconfiguring I-475 in West Toledo so that Promedica / Toledo Hospital gets a cloverleaf type exit / entrance in place of the hodge-podge of exits and entrances that exist now. The highway will be … Continue reading
Posted in Informative, Soapbox, Toledo
Tagged Ohio, Ohio Department of Transportation, Toledo, University of Toledo
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This is Getting Old.
For the third week in a row, the City of Toledo has failed to pick up not only my garbage, but nearly all of my neighbors as well. This requires an explanation so please bear with me. My house and … Continue reading
More Trash Talk
Image via Wikipedia We’ve been beaten over the head with the talk of trash pickup in Toledo, so much so that I have added a new category for the subject. However, this time, I am going to be the one … Continue reading
Meet Force With Like Force
I recall a scene in the television series M*A*S*H in which a belligerent patient gets unruly and Father Mulcahy punches him in the face. While he feels bad about it and is told “priests aren’t supposed to hit people” he was … Continue reading