Local news for Toledo and Northwest Ohio: city hall, schools, events, business, public safety, weather, sports, and arts.https://toledoledger.com/https://toledoledger.com/posts/dolly-parton-dies-80-music-philanthropy/https://toledoledger.com/posts/dolly-parton-dies-80-music-philanthropy/Parton, worth an estimated $650 million, gave away millions through her Imagination Library and disaster relief funds, and asked to be buried in a cotton field.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:15:09 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/court-order-blocks-trump-mail-voting-restriction/https://toledoledger.com/posts/court-order-blocks-trump-mail-voting-restriction/A separate Massachusetts case still blocks USPS from acting on Trump's order, even after the Supreme Court lifted a related injunction Monday.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:09:46 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/les-wexner-steps-down-osu-medical-center-board-chair/https://toledoledger.com/posts/les-wexner-steps-down-osu-medical-center-board-chair/Wexner keeps an honorary board seat as M/I Homes CEO Robert Schottenstein is set to take over, while 500 requests to remove Wexner's name from campus buildings remain pending.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:55:18 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-energy-rules-favor-natural-gas-over-solar-wind/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-energy-rules-favor-natural-gas-over-solar-wind/Ohio law lets counties ban wind and solar projects and adds local votes and rules gas plants avoid, steering data centers toward fossil fuel power.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:30:44 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/linda-caudill-ramaswamy-blames-acton-mothers-death/https://toledoledger.com/posts/linda-caudill-ramaswamy-blames-acton-mothers-death/The woman blaming Amy Acton for her mother’s death has spent a decade in Republican politics — chairing Donald Trump’s Hamilton County campaign, organizing conservative activists and winning a seat on the Ohio GOP’s State Central Committee.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:41:55 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-backs-miller-preserving-gop-control-most-important/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-backs-miller-preserving-gop-control-most-important/Two GOP senators on the same endorsement page as Ramaswamy have called for Miller to resign, but his name still isn't going anywhere.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:51:50 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/amy-acton-day-one-anti-corruption-executive-orders/https://toledoledger.com/posts/amy-acton-day-one-anti-corruption-executive-orders/The Democratic gubernatorial candidate says she would establish anti-corruption task forces to prevent future malfeasance in state government.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:17:26 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-ad-blames-acton-kentucky-death/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-ad-blames-acton-kentucky-death/DeWine has repeatedly said pandemic decisions were his alone, and the ad's spokeswoman was cut from a 2017 GOP campaign over a violent meme targeting Jon Husted.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:42:11 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-patrolmens-benevolent-association-endorses-amy-acton-for-governor/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-patrolmens-benevolent-association-endorses-amy-acton-for-governor/The endorsement splits Ohio police unions, coming a month after the state's largest, the FOP, backed Ramaswamy and an all-Republican slate for the first time in recent memory.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:59:57 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/supreme-court-lifts-pause-trump-mail-ballot-order/https://toledoledger.com/posts/supreme-court-lifts-pause-trump-mail-ballot-order/Jackson's dissent warns of chaos just 73 days before the midterms, as 23 Democratic-led states lose their bid to block the ballot overhaul.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:57:38 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/senate-map-trending-dem-gop-slim-advantage/https://toledoledger.com/posts/senate-map-trending-dem-gop-slim-advantage/Ohio is one of six toss-up states as analysts say low Trump approval and stronger Democratic enthusiasm could offset a map Republicans should easily hold.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:55:11 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-administration-plans-100000-visa-fee-h1b-workers/https://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-administration-plans-100000-visa-fee-h1b-workers/The proposed fee for domestic hires follows a federal judge's June ruling striking down a similar $100,000 charge for workers hired abroad.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:52:56 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-mcmahon-promote-education-freedom-tax-credit-voucher-program/https://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-mcmahon-promote-education-freedom-tax-credit-voucher-program/Nearly 30 congressional Democrats have introduced bills to repeal the tax credit program, though the effort faces long odds in the GOP-led Congress.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:51:25 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/medicaid-cuts-60-billion-hospital-funding-ohio-37-states/https://toledoledger.com/posts/medicaid-cuts-60-billion-hospital-funding-ohio-37-states/Ohio faces up to $640 million in annual state revenue losses by 2028 as rural hospitals brace for service cuts or closures under the federal changes.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:30 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-hb-984-foster-care-reimbursement-rate-cap/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-hb-984-foster-care-reimbursement-rate-cap/Officials say providers charge counties unlimited daily rates for hard-to-place children, with one Scioto County case nearing $1 million a year.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:55:01 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/democrats-trans-athletes-messaging-ohio-acton/https://toledoledger.com/posts/democrats-trans-athletes-messaging-ohio-acton/Equality Ohio downgraded Acton's grade to pending after a tense meeting where LGBTQ+ leaders said her campaign seemed to sideline trans concerns for swing voters.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:45:52 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-lawmakers-must-stop-kroger-surveillance-pricing/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-lawmakers-must-stop-kroger-surveillance-pricing/While 11 states and Congress advance surveillance-pricing bills, Ohio has introduced none, despite Kroger earning $500 million yearly selling shopper data.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:30:15 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/fentanyl-seizures-plummet-39-percent-as-trump-shifts-ice-to-immigration/https://toledoledger.com/posts/fentanyl-seizures-plummet-39-percent-as-trump-shifts-ice-to-immigration/One HSI office cut its drug team from seven agents to three as immigration work consumed 99% of staff hours, a DHS watchdog found.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:37:56 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/supreme-court-allows-trump-400m-white-house-ballroom-project/https://toledoledger.com/posts/supreme-court-allows-trump-400m-white-house-ballroom-project/The order is temporary, giving justices more time to weigh a nonprofit's claim that Trump illegally demolished the East Wing without congressional approval.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:34:37 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ice-detains-29-haitians-springfield-ohio/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ice-detains-29-haitians-springfield-ohio/Detainees are sent to Butler County Jail, already over its recommended capacity, as a Cleveland immigration lawyer says local jails profit from federal detention contracts.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:25 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/amy-acton-anti-corruption-agenda-governor/https://toledoledger.com/posts/amy-acton-anti-corruption-agenda-governor/“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” Acton told reporters at a Columbus event. “But I think walking in the door and saying, ‘Look, there is a cost that we are all paying for corruption. We all know it. We’re famous for it.”Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:55:59 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-bmv-removes-gender-change-form-drivers-license/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-bmv-removes-gender-change-form-drivers-license/Equality Ohio calls the unannounced change voter suppression, since state IDs are required at the polls and now must match birth certificates or passports.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:50:50 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-high-school-sports-pay-to-play-fees/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-high-school-sports-pay-to-play-fees/Reynoldsburg charges $500 per sport in a district where most students are labeled economically disadvantaged, while neighboring Columbus charges nothing.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:30:22 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/idaho-abortion-ban-health-exception-supreme-court/https://toledoledger.com/posts/idaho-abortion-ban-health-exception-supreme-court/Idaho's attorney general is appealing the ruling, while legal experts say the case could reach the Supreme Court and test Dobbs over mental health exceptions.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:10:50 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/veteran-homelessness-record-low-half-states-increase/https://toledoledger.com/posts/veteran-homelessness-record-low-half-states-increase/Oregon saw the biggest jump at 16% and Mississippi rose 88%, while California cut its homeless veteran population by 624 to lead national declines.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:05:22 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-profited-axovant-alzheimers-drug-failed/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-profited-axovant-alzheimers-drug-failed/His mother's questioned reanalysis and a SoftBank ownership shift preceded the $315 million IPO's collapse, wiping out a California teachers' pension fund.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:50:29 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-2028-vs-2032-presidential-math/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-2028-vs-2032-presidential-math/The New York Times listed the Ohio governor candidate as a "potential prospect" for president in 2028.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:45:14 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/husted-skips-disability-forum-posts-clay-shooting-photos/https://toledoledger.com/posts/husted-skips-disability-forum-posts-clay-shooting-photos/Husted has told Ohioans repeatedly that his Medicaid vote wouldn't hurt disabled people, a claim advocates and his own record as House speaker contradict.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:50:24 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/jack-windsor-domestic-violence-protection-order-2018/https://toledoledger.com/posts/jack-windsor-domestic-violence-protection-order-2018/Court records contradict Windsor's claim the allegations were disproven, showing he consented to the protection order weeks after their divorce was finalized.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:15:09 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-spent-700000-private-jet-campaign/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-spent-700000-private-jet-campaign/Records show most of that money went to a leasing company registered at a house Ramaswamy owns, an arrangement a watchdog says could let him pay himself with donor funds.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:58 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-immigrant-alliance-documents-152-charged-homeland-security-agents/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-immigrant-alliance-documents-152-charged-homeland-security-agents/The Ohio Immigrant Alliance's tally nearly tripled to 152 cases, with about 90% involving sexual abuse or gender-based violence allegations.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:55:38 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-supreme-court-certifies-out-of-state-wind-farms/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-supreme-court-certifies-out-of-state-wind-farms/A dissenting justice accused PUCO of clear violations of state recordkeeping law, but the 5-2 ruling still clears Avangrid to sell wind power from four noncontiguous states.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:45:58 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/haslams-host-ramaswamy-fundraiser-browns-stadium-deal/https://toledoledger.com/posts/haslams-host-ramaswamy-fundraiser-browns-stadium-deal/A Haslam Sports Group executive who led the stadium negotiations has already donated over $43,000 to Ramaswamy while the $600 million grant stays frozen in court.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:15:31 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/acton-three-day-one-executive-orders-corruption/https://toledoledger.com/posts/acton-three-day-one-executive-orders-corruption/The plan targets the same appointment process that let FirstEnergy install Sam Randazzo at PUCO before his $4.3 million bribery scandal cost ratepayers billions.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:45:40 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohioans-criticize-rep-carey-snap-medicaid-education-cuts/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohioans-criticize-rep-carey-snap-medicaid-education-cuts/District data shows 220,200 residents on Medicaid and $40.4 million in special education funding at risk as Carey faces Democrat Don Leonard in November.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:55:23 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/catholic-sisters-protest-ice-haitian-deportations-blue-ash/https://toledoledger.com/posts/catholic-sisters-protest-ice-haitian-deportations-blue-ash/Since TPS ended, Springfield-area Haitians report weekly to a Blue Ash ICE office, where interfaith clergy have joined a months-long volunteer network preparing for possible family separations.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:50:19 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-administration-rescinds-roadless-rule-45-million-acres/https://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-administration-rescinds-roadless-rule-45-million-acres/Forest Service and OSU research contradict USDA's wildfire-prevention rationale, and Earthjustice says it plans to sue to block the repeal.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:00:20 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-father-never-took-citizenship-test-he-touted/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-father-never-took-citizenship-test-he-touted/Ramaswamy falsely told voters both parents passed the naturalization test his voting-age plan required.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:55:54 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-tariffs-raising-grocery-prices/https://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-tariffs-raising-grocery-prices/President Trump’s tariffs have raised the prices for imported food items, passing on higher costs directly to consumers.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:26:30 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-iran-war-gas-prices-top-4/https://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-iran-war-gas-prices-top-4/President Donald Trump promised in June and July that gasoline prices would soon drop significantly.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:24:31 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/sherrod-brown-runs-us-senate-ohio-2025/https://toledoledger.com/posts/sherrod-brown-runs-us-senate-ohio-2025/In the Senate, the Ohio Democrat sponsored legislation to support working families.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:17:43 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohioans-fight-data-center-spread-bowling-green-meta/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohioans-fight-data-center-spread-bowling-green-meta/‘Coughing up stuff from my lungs is an ongoing daily occurrence,’ said Joe Fuller, who works in data centers throughout Ohio.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:12:02 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-backed-social-security-privatization/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-backed-social-security-privatization/The Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee said in October 2024 that he believes Medicare and Medicaid were a mistake.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:08:57 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/lima-rally-targets-husted-data-centers-electric-costs/https://toledoledger.com/posts/lima-rally-targets-husted-data-centers-electric-costs/A GOP memo obtained by Axios warns data center backlash could cost Husted his seat, the same argument protesters made outside his Lima appearance.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:59:18 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-affordability-crisis-food-health-electric-bills/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ohio-affordability-crisis-food-health-electric-bills/A new report ties together SNAP losses, ACA enrollment drops and record electric bills as polling shows 38% of Ohioans say they're falling behind financially.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:43:00 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/leaked-gop-memo-data-centers-husted-liability/https://toledoledger.com/posts/leaked-gop-memo-data-centers-husted-liability/The NRSC memo urges AI companies to fix their own public image, warning that a Husted loss could make politicians nationwide wary of backing data centers.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:35:44 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-dodges-axovant-bodyguard-miller-questions/https://toledoledger.com/posts/ramaswamy-dodges-axovant-bodyguard-miller-questions/His campaign has not explained continued payments to a security firm after his family bodyguard's fentanyl arrest or his mother's role in manipulating failed drug trial data.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:11:22 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-white-house-ballroom-congress-approval-supreme-court/https://toledoledger.com/posts/trump-white-house-ballroom-congress-approval-supreme-court/The administration says the ballroom's nuclear-grade concrete makes it nearly impossible to remove, while 30 Democrats and 17 GOP attorneys general split over who should decide.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:28:13 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/dnc-approves-2028-primary-calendar-south-carolina-nevada-lead/https://toledoledger.com/posts/dnc-approves-2028-primary-calendar-south-carolina-nevada-lead/Iowa Democrats blasted their exclusion from the calendar as broken promises, while New Hampshire kept its early slot and two new Southern states joined the lineup.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:24:51 GMThttps://toledoledger.com/posts/only-9-percent-ohio-lawmakers-moms-minor-children/https://toledoledger.com/posts/only-9-percent-ohio-lawmakers-moms-minor-children/Ohio needs one more mom of a minor child to match its share of the population, as lawmakers describe missed baseball games and FaceTime homework help.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:00:44 GMT