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McNamara flip-flops

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n November of 2009, Toledo City Council President Joe McNamara announced he was exploring a run for the Ohio 11th District Senate. As part of that announcement, he said he would not seek re-election as Council president. Stepping aside as Council president showed wisdom, clarity and an understanding that he could not capably run a campaign and fulfill duties as council president.

Fast-forward four years. On Feb. 12, McNamara, who is again serving as council president, announced he was entering the mayor’s race to challenge Mike Bell. But this time, he made no mention of stepping aside as Council president, despite a far greater potential for conflict.

Behind the scenes, Council members, some of whom have been unhappy with McNamara’s leadership, began corralling votes to oust him as Council president. As reported by Toledo Free Press Managing Editor Sarah Ottney, City Council member Tom Waniewski said he sat down with McThomas F. Pounds Namara a few days after McNamara announced his plan to run for mayor and told him he should “strongly consider stepping down” as Council president.

McNamara said no. But McNamara must have seen the writing on the wall, for on Feb. 18, nearly a week after his mayoral announcement, he stepped aside as Council president.

“This is about serving the citizens first and putting their needs above my own,” McNamara told Toledo Free Press on Feb. 18. “While it’s great to have a nice title, I feel I can do more for the people of Toledo as mayor for the next four years than as City Council president for the next 10 months.”

This indecision and flip-flopping is exactly what Bell was publicly referring to when he noted McNamara’s relative lack of “backbone.”

“Tenacity. The ability to make a decision and stick with it,” Bell told Toledo Free Press. “I’m not trying to be insulting, but I believe he would be more wishy-washy. Easier to influence. And [he’d] probably take us back where we just came from.”

McNamara’s performance at the Council meeting on Feb. 19 further reduced his standing. Council needed to appoint his replacement, but after several stalemate votes, rather than switch his vote to fellow Democrat Paula Hicks-Hudson and end the gridlock, he smirkingly refused to compromise his lost-cause vote for Adam Martinez, creating additional questions about his having the maturity to be mayor. It was a high-profile opportunity to display true leadership, but he chose to preside over the quagmire rather than drain the swamp and move on in the best interest of the people.

McNamara knew in 2009 he needed to step down. In 2013, he thought he could handle an even more contentious situation and, despite his spin, has revealed precisely the flip-flopping and wavering that makes him a specious candidate for mayor.

McNamara has several months to make his case, but this first step is an ominous and disappointing start to his campaign. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

LIGHTING THE FUSE

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reader recently emailed kind words about my Jan. 20 stalwart institution that barely 50 percent of Americans column, “Murder by numbers,” a plaintive commen- can successfully navigate. You don’t have to like it, but tary on the devaluation of life and decreasing respect understand that your distaste is irrelevant to the legal for others. The same letter, with striking irony apparently lost and social standards that should guarantee this right for all Americans. on the writer, included the line, “I cannot unToledo Free Press has been proud to derstand your attitude for LGBT. I’m sure you work with the LGBT community and in would not want your son’s [sic] to be raised by doing so I have met some amazing people 2 mommys [sic].” and made some wonderful friends. In addiIt confuses me that someone could appretion to my admiration for LGBT advocate ciate a column about respect for others and Rick Cornett and his tireless work for the at the same time disdain an entire lifestyle.

Holiday with Heart Charity Gayla, getting Nor do I understand being asked to defend to know Toledo Pride’s Lexi Staples and my support for human rights and equality.

Emily Hickey has been one of the best reI have long maintained that gay marwards of my eight years with Toledo Free riage in the United States is as inevitable as interracial marriage and other once-con- Michael S. miller Press. Hickey, who is as lovely and loving a person as you are going to meet, and Cortested civil rights. There is no cogent, empirical argument that allowing gay people to marry has nett contribute columns to Toledo Free Press Star. any detrimental effect on heterosexual marriage, that n MILLER CONTINUES ON A4 Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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A4 n Toledo Free Press n MILLER CONTINUED FROM A3 At the 2012 Holiday with Heart Gayla, Cornett presented Toledo Free Press with the event’s Founder’s Award, which is given annually to a supporter of the LGBT community. A photo of Cornett and me appeared on the front page of the Dec. 14 Gay People’s Chronicle, Ohio’s LGBT newspaper; a framed version hangs in my office.

None of this strikes me as daring, brave or even all that notable in the grand scheme of life. But there are obviously still a lot of people who equate “gay” with “inferior.”

Almost exactly five years ago, I wrote a column, “Gay rights and wrongs,” about inequality in work benefits for gay couples. “The gay rights struggle is something I experience secondhand, like my black friends’ struggles and my wheelchair-bound friend’s struggles,” I wrote. “It’s basic Golden Rule territory: Don’t judge people for the color of their skin or their physical challenges, and don’t judge them for their sexuality. I know that is a simplified and naïve statement, but for me, the issue really is that simple. There are people who are so strongly anti-gay rights, they lust for legislation to limit the gay community’s freedoms. That makes no intellectual or moral sense to me. Some of this prejudice is based in religion. I find it confusing that people who believe in a savior who opens his arms to everyone think he’ll draw those same arms shut to keep gay people away.”

Crystal Dixon, who was then associate vice president for human resources at the University of Toledo and an elder and minister at End Time Christian Fellowship in Toledo, took great umbrage to any comparison between the civil rights struggle of African-Americans and gay people. In a response column to Toledo Free Press, she characterized homosexuality as a “choice.” She was fired by UT for her comments and eventually lost a lawsuit against the university.

I have believed for a while that trying to change the minds of homophobic people is akin to King Canute ordering back the sea.

But the discovery of a new song on the subject shames me into realizing how lazy and defeatist my attitude is.

The hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis have found huge success with their album “The Heist” and their No. 1 song, “Thrift Shop.” But another track on the album, “Same Love,” represents a dramatic revolution in pop culture. While gay actors have found increasing success in film and television, hip-hop and rap, one of the country’s biggest-selling musical genres, have remained locked and shuttered against gay rights. That follows decades of tradition in black music and rap. Until the advent of gay musician Frank Ocean and now “Same Love,” most mentions of gay people have been hostile and intolerant.

Over a piano couplet that might have come from the Randy Newman hymnal, Macklemore raps: “When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay ‘Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight I told my mom, tears rushing down my face She’s like, ‘Ben you’ve loved girls since before pre-K’

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Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn’t she?

Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.

I remember doing the math like, ‘Yeah, I’m good at little league’ A preconceived idea of what it all meant For those that liked the same sex Had the characteristics The right-wing conservatives think it’s a decision And you can be cured with some treatment and religion Man-made, rewiring of a predisposition Playing God, aw nah, here we go America the brave still fears what we don’t know And God loves all his children, it’s somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written 3,500 years ago I don’t know” Then, over a solo, aching trumpet line, openly gay Seattle singer Mary Lambert sings: “And I can’t change, even if I tried, even if I wanted to My love, my love, my love, she keeps me warm” Macklemore returns: “If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me Have you read the YouTube comments lately?

‘Man, that’s gay’ gets dropped on the daily We’ve become so numb to what we’re saying A culture founded from oppression Yet we don’t have acceptance for ’em Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it Gay is synonymous with the lesser It’s the same hate that’s caused wars from religion Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment The same fight that led people to walkouts and sit-ins It’s human rights for everybody, there is no difference!

Live on and be yourself When I was at church they taught me something else If you preach hate at the service those words aren’t anointed That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless Rather than fighting for humans that had their rights stolen I might not be the same, but that’s not important No freedom till we’re equal, damn right I support it” With the addition of pounding percussion Adele would be proud of, Lambert repeats the chorus.

Then, Macklemore continues: “We press play, don’t press pause Progress, march on With the veil over our eyes We turn our back on the cause

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Till the day that my uncles can be united by law When kids are walking ’round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are And a certificate on paper isn’t gonna solve it all But it’s a damn good place to start No law is gonna change us We have to change us Whatever god you believe in We come from the same one Strip away the fear Underneath it’s all the same love About time that we raised up” Lambert sings the chorus again, and as the song fades, she sings lines from First Corinthians: “Love is patient, love is kind Love is patient, love is kind” Then, between those lines, Lambert adds, “I’m not crying on Sundays,” a defiant note to those who embrace Christianity but exclude Christ’s gay followers.

Lambert joined Macklemore and Lewis to perform “Same Love” on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” and has helped propel the track to nearly 20 million views on YouTube. More impressively, this politically charged track made the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 89. It has reached No. 1 in a number of countries and spurred serious discussion in America. In December, Susan Johnson, a teacher at Centennial Middle School in the Detroit area was suspended for playing the song (which as you have read contains no sexual content just social commentary) to her class.

“This incident is just one of tens of thousands that have happened across the country where schools have exposed a latent homophobia, preventing safe space for all young people to feel confident in being themselves,” Macklemore wrote on his Facebook page. “It’s clear that Ms. Johnson felt bullying and ‘gay bashing’ were issues that needed to be addressed, and by doing so, was punished.”

“Same Love” is eloquent, groundbreaking and, I fervently hope, destined to the scrapheap of history when the death of anti-gay prejudice and ignorant hate render it irrelevant.

So to the letter writer who “cannot understand” my “attitude for LGBT,” I offer the patience and understanding I wish he would employ with others.

I also want to let him know that I am friends and family with a number of “2 mommys” who have done stellar jobs raising children, and to whom I would entrust the raising of my children without hesitation. They would raise more open-minded, loving and spiritual thinkers than his parents apparently did. O Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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Minimum wage sense

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resident Barack Obama gave makes you think, doesn’t it?

The GOP and its rich backers his State of the Union address on Feb. 12. I for one was glad would like you to believe that the minto hear many of the proposals the imum wage primarily affects teenagers president made. I thought they were looking to enter the workforce or find common-sense proposals, many of summer jobs. In actuality, 50 percent of people earning the minimum wage them long overdue.

The suggestion to raise the min- are over the age of 24, many with families. Based on a imum wage to $9 an 40-hour-a-week job, or hour was met with 2,008 hours a year, that the standard GOP comes to a whopping talking points that $14,558 yearly income come up every time on the current $7.25/ raising the minimum hour minimum wage. wage arises: It’ll cost How many readers out jobs; Who’ll pay for there think they could it?; Young entry-level live on that, let alone workers will be unable support a family? This is to get jobs; etc., etc., Don BURNARD also a women’s issue. 75 etc. Speaker of the House John Boehner gave an impas- percent of minimum wage earners are sioned speech for the cameras about women over the age of 24. Undoubtswamping out his daddy’s bar (so he edly, a significant number of these knows entry-level jobs) and how this women are single mothers. What kind would cut out the bottom rungs on of life can any of these wage earners the ladder of success, thus impeding, expect to provide for their families?

The largest part of our economy represumably, the climb to become fulies on consumer spending, which acture millionaires and billionaires.

There’s only one problem with counts for 70 percent of the total. The this. It isn’t true. These same old tired money that would be paid to minimum saws have been trotted out for as long wage workers would be put right back as there has been a minimum wage, into the economy for everyday living and studies have shown that the expenses. This increases demand for horror stories of what will happen durable goods, nondurable goods and don’t happen. Pat Garofolo of the services. This benefits every part of the political website Think Progress spectrum of the economy. The millionsaid in an article, “The history says aires and billionaires take the majority that raising the minimum wage has of their money and put it away in Swiss little if any impact on job creation.” or Cayman Island bank accounts, He points to a November 2010 study which don’t benefit the economy of the published in The Review of Economics U.S. at all. Well, maybe certain parts of and Statistics that found “no detect- the financial sector stand to benefit, but able employment losses from the they’ve already shown that helping the kind of minimum wage increases we economy is very low on their list of fun have seen in the United States.” An- things to do.

Henry Ford believed that paying other study published in 2011 “found no impact on hours worked or em- his workers a decent wage helped ployment levels.” Garofolo cites the him in the long run because then they seminal study of the minimum wage could afford to buy the cars they made, done by economists David Card and thus increasing his bottom line. An Alan Krueger, which found that job ever-growing number of economists creation was actually strengthened seem to be rediscovering this theory. by an increase in the minimum wage, Across the board, conservative and liband points out that this has been eral economists alike are calling to raise the minimum wage. The general conproven time and time again. “[Sen. Marco] Rubio and [Sen. sensus is that it should be raised to at Paul] Ryan have it exactly back- least $12-$13/hour. In Australia, which wards; raising the minimum wage has weathered the economic downturn results in higher wages and more better than most developed countries, purchasing power for workers, not has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the developed world. It also has job losses,” Garofolo wrote.

An example of this conundrum a minimum wage of almost $16 (U.S.). for Republicans can be found in Maybe it’s time to start thinking outthat city they love to hate, San Fran- side the box instead of blindly adhering cisco, which has a minimum wage to false talking points. O of $10.55/hour. Its unemployment rate is 6.7 percent; in the rest of Cali- Email Don Burnard at letters@ fornia, the rate is 9.8 percent. Kind of toledofreepress.com.

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GOING GLOBAL

Economic development: Theory and practice

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ecently, I had the very good fortune to spend a vard professor, Michael Porter, and his cluster approach week with some of the nation’s most advanced to economic development. A cluster approach to develscholars of economic development. It was a week opment calls for firms in similar and related industries to of lectures, group discussions and team projects spon- work together on common concerns, such as attracting a sored by Harvard University. The theme for the week talented workforce, branding a location and learning from was “Leading Economic Growth” and the lecture/dis- one another. A decade or more of experience and research cussions were led by eight faculty members who teach now clearly shows the critical importance of clusters in and do research on economic development at Harvard’s promoting successful, effective economic development.

Kennedy School of Government. There were 45 of us in Communities and regions that ignore the value of clusters the group representing 30 countries. It was a stimulating are less likely to be competitive than those that embrace a and diverse group of national and regional leaders in- strong cluster approach to economic development. terested in learning more about the global dynamics of Go with your strengths economic growth and development.

One of the things that made the week Highly detailed studies of economic particularly interesting was the rich backgrowth clearly show the importance and grounds of the group members. Many were effectiveness of building on the strengths directly involved in their national governof a region or nation. Communities and ment’s programs to grow their economies; regions — such as ours here in Northothers came from international organizawest Ohio — develop the “know-how” to tions working to encourage the economic create certain products. The accumulation growth of regions, nations and the global of this know-how is what economists call economy. All were professionally engaged in “productive knowledge.” Places that learn economic development. to recombine the bits and pieces of this I thought I would share a few of the week’s knowledge can attract new and exciting highlights and insights that may relate to our Dan JOHNSON products that can bring innovation, talent own efforts here in Northwest Ohio to grow and investment. But product knowledge the region’s economy. alone is not enough; putting this knowledge into useful product development requires teams, organizations Appearing to do vs. actually doing and markets. Building on your strengths to achieve One of the many traps common to economic develop- economic growth is a collective enterprise and there ment is mistaking appearances of development for actual are few, if any, shortcuts. development. Many organizations may look like they are doing economic development but the results do not sup- Importance of evaluation port the appearances. Many organizations manage to One of the keys that helps unlock the doorway to comply with expectations of what they should look like — economic growth is learning from experience — both often based on best practices in some other place — but fail positive and negative. Those communities, regions and to produce positive economic outcomes in terms of new even nations that have adopted a learning approach to jobs, new companies and economic growth. The emphasis economic development are more likely to succeed. In on form (what an organization looks like) over function other words, they routinely ask, “What works?” And, (what it actually does) is a trap many communities and equally important, “What doesn’t work?” Organizacountries face. The consumption of scarce development re- tions engaged in economic development need “feedsources without demonstrated improvements in economic back loops” to inform their policies, planning and acperformance is often very costly. tions. These feedback loops provide the information with which an objective evaluation of a project can be Top-down vs. bottom-up conducted. The learning from such evaluations, done It was clear from the lectures, readings and discussions consistently, will help guide future projects to a higher that building a successful state or regional economic devel- level of success.

The most important lesson I took from my week with opment capability is not exclusively or even predominantly a “top-down” process. Successful development comes when this interesting and diverse group of international leaders it involves a broad set of organizations and agents engaged was clear: The rapidly increasing complexity and comand working together to design and implement solutions petitiveness of regional and national economies, combined to local problems. It is difficult — perhaps impossible — to with the growing sophistication of development strategies, achieve long-term success and growth without institution- requires a learning approach to economic development alized collaboration. Top-down approaches rarely achieve that embraces both a sound understanding of development the degree of genuine adoption to be successful beyond theory as well as practical experience.

We are on the right track but, as I was reminded, ecothe short term. When the top people leave, the top-down projects usually disappear. Commitment to broad-based nomic development is a journey, not a destination. O inclusiveness will increase sustained growth.

Dan Johnson is director of global initiatives, president emerThere is no substitute for effective clusters itus and distinguished professor of public policy and ecoThose who have been engaged in economic develop- nomic development at the University of Toledo. Email him at ment for any time are likely familiar with the work of Har- letters@toledofreepress.com.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2013

EDUCATION

TPS considers changing emergency crisis response plan

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False TV reports that a student had brought a gun to Raymer Elementary School on Feb. 15 panicked many East Toledoans, leading parents to pull more than 160 students from classes that Friday morning.

Toledo Public School (TPS) Board of Education members and administrators agree the incident highlights the need for TPS to address safety issues. Those concerns will be addressed when the board meets at 5 p.m. Feb. 26 for the first of two public meetings next week, according to board member Lisa Sobecki.

Sobecki said she asked that a safety agenda item be added to TPS’s Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) Building Committee.

Sobecki said the committee will keep safety and security “a standing item to keep board members abreast” of issues that need to be addressed.

“I want to keep SOBECKI it on the agenda,” Sobecki said. “We should have safety on an agenda, and we don’t currently have that on any of our committees.”

At January’s board meeting, Sobecki encouraged fellow board members to make either Superintendent Jerome Pecko or Chief Business Manager James Gant aware of any safety and security concerns board members had, so that when the two administrators met with City of Toledo fire and police chiefs in early February to discuss TPS’s emergency procedures, they could include “all that information we’ve been thinking about.”

Gant said when he and Pecko met with Police Chief Derrick Diggs and Fire Chief Luis Santiago, “We talked about our process and procedures and made sure they were comfortable with them. We wanted to make sure that our communication was good … to see if they had anything they would like to add to the discussion in terms of how we could be more proactive in what we’re doing.”

Gant said a major concern the four men discussed was whether TPS’s policy, where all school building doors are locked and no one is allowed to leave or enter the building in an emergency, was the best course of action.

“We talked about how we handle

active shooters and whether the lockdown procedure was an efficient method of doing that, or whether the program ALICE [Alert–Lockdown– Inform-Counter-Evacuate] would be a direction the district would like to move into,” Gant said. “Let me explain what ALICE is by example. Right now, if we have an active shooter and they get into the classroom, what we teach our kids to do, and it’s what most districts have done probably forever, is to find a location, to get down and to hide.”

A TPS elementary school teacher who asked her name not be published confirmed what Gant said.

“Fire drills are once a month, but there are no prescribed number of times [active shooter drills] have to be done,” she said. “We do one every fall, and they do that K-12. We practice with the kids. There’s a prescribed script that’s read, and every school has the same script.”

Gant said recent research indicates that the “get-down-and-hide” approach is not necessarily the best strategy.

“We want folks to be more active in the process, so we actively look for ways to escape,” Gant said. “We become active in the way we try to distract the shooter so we can eliminate any collateral damages.

“So maybe we start throwing things at the shooter. Some districts have had golf balls in buckets in the corner of every room, that type of thing, to be more active in stopping the shooter.”

Gant said ALICE is a program the district is only considering and that it will not be presented to the board for discussion or a vote Feb. 26.

“It’s something we would have to develop,” Gant said. “Part of the thought process is to get more folks involved in the training; get folks trained and make sure they’re comfortable with it. And then we would roll it out, along with the policy that goes along with it.”

Scope of safety

At January’s meeting, board member Larry Sykes encouraged Pecko and his cabinet to broaden the scope of safety and security experts they consulted to include the Lucas County Sheriff ’s Office, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

“If one of our schools goes into lockdown [because of an active shooter], I’m sure the FBI, the ATF and the rest of them potentially could come in our school,” Sykes said. “If it doesn’t happen, great. But if it does happen, we will know how to handle

it, when to call them in and when not to. With hostage situations you have to have your best. And that is the FBI and the ATF.” Sykes pointed to the fact that the Newtown, Conn., shooting Dec. 14 was the 31st school shooting in the U.S. since the Columbine High School massacre of April 20, 1999.

“From all those, we have learned something,” Sykes said. “You have FBI profilers. You have people telling you how to watch out, how to look at stuff, what to be aware of. And that goes beyond your local police, fire and sheriff departments.

Sykes and Sobecki said before TPS would change the lockdown policy, it would seek input from taxpayers.

“Any time we change policies, we go out to the citizens,” Sykes said.

“It’s good to have public input from people who have a vested interest, and that’s parents who have their children in our schools.”

Sobecki said that if TPS switched from the current lockdown policy to ALICE, it would schedule meetings to explain the changes to the public.

“There would be a time and a place to do that, but we would have to first take care of it internally,” she said. “We would have to identify the program, whether it’s ALICE or something else, what we’re going to do and make sure our top-notch professionals are

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“And after you do that, you go site by site to explain the procedures we would have for ALICE versus lockdown. But a public hearing isn’t going to the public and asking ‘Do you think it’s OK if we do ALICE or do you want something else?’

“First, we would have to educate the community about what ALICE is.

And then we would take their questions to help them understand.”

In other business at the Feb. 26 meeting: O Pecko will present four cabinet members — Romules Durant and Brian Murphy, assistant superintendents of TPS’s two K-12 learning communities; James Gault, chief academic officer; and Cheryl Spieldenner, chief human resources officer — to the board for three-year contract renewals.

O The Human Resources Committee will take the cost of two background checks to the full board without a recommendation since committee members Cecilia Adams and Bob Vasquez do not agree on a course of action.

Adams predicted at the committee meeting that the board will vote 3-2 to require employees to pay for the state-mandated FBI background check and that the district will pay for the TPS-required Ohio background check, with Brenda Hill, Sobecki and Vasquez voting “yes” and Adams and Sykes voting “no.”

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McNamara resigns as Council president; Council unable to choose replacement

By Sarah Ottney

TOLEDO FREE PRESS MANAGING EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

A week after announcing he would run for mayor of Toledo, Joe McNamara resigned as president of Toledo City Council during its Feb. 19 meeting. But after five votes failed to reach the needed seven majority, Council adjourned without choosing a new president.

Nom i n at e d were Paula Hicks-Hudson and Adam Martinez, both Democrats, and Republican George Sarantou.

Council will McNAMARA take nominations and vote again at either a special meeting before its Feb. 26 agenda review session or at its next regular meeting March 5.

In the meantime, as determined by a rotating schedule, Shaun Enright, the newest member of Council, will serve as president pro tempore through Feb. 28 and Hicks-Hudson will take over as president pro tem in March.

McNamara cited his desire to keep political differences between himself and Mayor Mike Bell, who is running for reelection, from affecting the work of City Council as the reason for his resignation.

“This is about serving the citizens first and putting their needs above my own,” McNamara said. “While it’s great to have a nice title, I feel I can do more for the people of Toledo as mayor for the next four years than as City Council president for the next 10 months.”

McNamara, a Democrat and atlarge councilman who has served on Council since 2006, will retain his seat while he runs.

‘Disappointing’

McNamara said the deadlock was “certainly disappointing,” but will not affect Council operation.

“This happens. This is certainly not the first Council president fight that has gotten messy and probably won’t be the last, but City Council is still working and I’m still here and we’re going to continue to make sure that the citizens’ business gets done,” McNamara said.

Bell, who has the power to break a tie, was not at the meeting because he was attending Gov. John Kasich’s State

of the State address in Lima.

“The mayor’s hope is Council will be able to come together to come to a consensus and choose their own leadership,” said Jen Sorgenfrei, public information officer for the City of Toledo.

McNamara nominated Martinez, Councilwoman Lindsay Webb nominated Hicks-Hudson and Councilman D. Michael Collins nominated Sarantou. Sarantou’s nomination was seconded by Councilman Tom Waniewski.

Voting for Hicks-Hudson were herself, Tyrone Riley, Steve Steel and Webb, all fellow Democrats. Voting for Martinez were himself, McNamara and Mike Craig, also Democrats. Voting for Sarantou were himself, Republicans Rob Ludeman and Waniewski, and Collins, an independent.

Enright was the only member to change his vote, voting for Sarantou first, but switching to Hicks-Hudson for the next four votes. After the fourth failed vote, Craig moved to adjourn, but members voted 8-4 to continue.

Martinez, McNamara, Waniewski and Craig cast votes to adjourn.

After members returned from a 10-minute break, Webb called for Martinez to withdraw, saying remaining “seems fairly obstructionist at this point.”

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“Really? Obstructionist?” Craig shot back. “Obstructionist is calling for the resignation of the sitting Council president.”

After the fifth failed vote, McNamara moved to adjourn and it passed 7-5. Hicks-Hudson, Riley, Sarantou, Steel and Webb voted to stay in session.

“It’s no longer frustrating; it’s become comedic,” Waniewski said later.

“No Democrat will vote for a Republican and that’s way too sad.”

On Feb. 18, Webb stopped short of saying there would have been a vote to remove McNamara if he had not resigned, simply saying things had been “very tense” between Bell and the Council since McNamara entered the mayoral race, so there had been “some speculative discussion.”

She said McNamara made the right decision to resign.

“City Council has many important issues it will have to face during the next few months; it could have complicated Council’s ability to focus on its legislative process if it was embroiled in a race between the Council President and the Mayor,” Webb said in an email to Toledo Free Press.

Craig disagreed, saying he believes Bell and McNamara would have worked together.

“There was no reason to ask for the removal of Joe McNamara from his Council presidency. Period. I really just think it was unnecessary and it’s just interjecting politics into Council operations when it didn’t have to happen. It was very divisive. I can’t see anything really good coming from this,” Craig said. “If they couldn’t [work together] then neither one of them would be professionals and I believe they are. Would there have been some friction? Yeah. But I will tell you maybe not even as much friction as some past presidents have had with past mayors just on an ongoing basis.”

McNamara said he had heard rumblings that Council members were feeling out if there would be enough support to remove him as president, but that is not uncommon and did not impact his decision to resign.

“It’s kind of par for the course,” McNamara said. “The Council presidency is constantly fought over and I’ve certainly been through many City Council president fights. That’s almost normal at any one time, that there’s someone seeing if the support

is there. They didn’t get the number they needed.”

Waniewski said he sat down with McNamara a few days after McNamara declared he would run for mayor and told him he should “strongly consider stepping down” as Council president.

McNamara said no.

“He said he would not do that,” Waniewski said. “We talked for a long time. I said, ‘I’m not calling for you to step down. I’m just asking you to consider for the sake of the Council.’”

Waniewski said McNamara called later, saying he had reconsidered.

“I think he’s doing the right thing,” Waniewski said. “It has nothing to do with his ability. He’s been a fantastic president. It’s just better for the whole Council to remove anything that might be seen as political now that he’s in a race for mayor.”

McNamara said Waniewski was the only Council member to approach him about stepping down.

“I took some time to think about it and reflect,” McNamara said. “I decided politics could get involved and, thinking about what the mayor did with the water bills, got more and more worried about the politics of the race affecting Council.”

McNamara was referencing a recent standoff between Bell and the Council over Bell’s plan to charge a flat $200 deposit for new water accounts.

Following the discussion, several Council members received reminders from the mayor’s office about unpaid water bills and other notices regarding late bills and water shut-offs during the past few years.

“I just don’t think he has the professionalism to handle a City Council president running against him,” McNamara said. “I think he would take it personally and that would be bad for the City of Toledo. I will be the bigger man here and step down for the good of the people and make sure the mayor doesn’t interfere with the work that needs to get done.”

Sorgenfrei disagreed, saying the mayor will work with whomever is elected president.

“The mayor has and will continue to work with Council leadership and we hope they will reciprocate,” Sorgenfrei said.

Union president and neighborhood development specialist Alan Cox and minister Opal Covey are also running for mayor. O

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HISTORY

By John J. Miller

Special to Toledo Free PresS

Timothy Messer-Kruse doesn’t remember her name, but the question she asked in his college classroom a dozen years ago changed his career — and now it may revolutionize everything historians thought they knew about a hallowed event in the imagination of the American Left. “In my courses on labor history, I always devoted a full lecture to Haymarket,” said Messer-Kruse, referring to what happened in Chicago on the night of May 4, 1886.

He would describe how a gathering of anarchists near Haymarket Square turned into a fatal bombing and riot.

Although police never arrested the bomb-thrower, they went on to tyrannize radical groups throughout the city in a crackdown that is often called America’s first Red Scare. Eight men were convicted of aiding and abetting murder. Four died at the end of a hangman’s noose. Today, history books portray them as the innocent victims of a sham trial: They are labor-movement martyrs who sought modest reforms in the face of ruthless robber-baron capitalism.

As Messer-Kruse recounted this familiar tale to his students at the University of Toledo in 2001, a woman raised her hand. “Professor,” she asked, “if what it says in our textbook is true, that there was ‘no evidence whatsoever connecting them with the bombing,’ then what did they talk about in the courtroom for six weeks?”

The question stumped MesserKruse. “It had not occurred to me before,” he said. He muttered a few words about lousy evidence and paid witnesses. “But I didn’t really know,” he recalls. “I told her I’d look it up.” As he checked out the standard sources, he failed to find good answers. The semester ended and the student moved on, but her question haunted him.

“My interest grew into an obsession.”

As Messer-Kruse began to look more closely, he started to wonder if the true story of Haymarket was fundamentally different from the version he and just about everybody else had been told.

The 49-year-old Messer-Kruse now teaches at Bowling Green State University. His father was a minister, so he moved around a lot as a kid, eventually winding up in Oshkosh, Wis., where he graduated from high school. After that came the University of Wisconsin–Madison, but he needed nearly seven years to earn his undergraduate degree because he kept taking time off to make money as a taxi driver. These days, he prefers jog-

ging to driving, and he has qualified to compete in the Boston Marathon this April. He posts running times on his office door. Messer-Kruse is in many ways an ordinary academic liberal. He mentions anti-poverty activist Michael Harrington as an inspiration, calls himself a “social democrat,” and says he voted twice for Barack Obama.

photo by CRAIG BELL/BGSU

BGSU professor challenges accounts of Haymarket trial

A visit to Chicago

In 1986, when he was a senior in Madison, a buddy suggested they drive down to Chicago for the weekend.

“I just wanted to hang out with friends,” Messer-Kruse said.

His companion also proposed a side trip to a cemetery, where labor activists planned to commemorate the centenary of the Haymarket protest.

“I had been aware of Haymarket in passing,” Messer-Kruse said. “But I didn’t have any special knowledge or appreciation.”

He doesn’t remember much about the day, which featured a roster of speakers including populist author Studs Terkel. Yet the number of young people in attendance and their passion for working-class causes affected him.

“The whole day made a deep impression,” he said. It stayed with him as he entered graduate school and specialized in labor history. A framed poster for the event now decorates the wall of his cramped office at BGSU. “Partly because of that experience, I became a labor historian,” he says.

Haymarket lit a fire in the mind of the young scholar, but Messer-Kruse devoted his doctoral dissertation to a completely different topic.

“I assumed that there wasn’t anything new to research or write about Haymarket,” he said.

He also accepted a version of events that had been written into the history books long ago. The details vary, but the broad strokes of the story are the same. A group of workers, most of them German-speaking immigrants, assembled near Haymarket Square to appeal for an eight-hour workday.

Many called themselves anarchists, but they were mainly a peace-loving bunch who simply wanted to improve their wretched conditions. As police arrived to bust up the crowd, someone tossed a bomb.

No one knows who did it — perhaps an anarchist agitator or, as Howard Zinn suggests in “A People’s History of the United States,” perhaps “an agent of the police, an agent provocateur.” Regardless of the culprit’s identity, police panicked and opened fire, accidentally killing several of their fellow officers. The incident left seven

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Timothy Messer-Kruse has challenged accePted accounts of the May 4, 1886 haymarket riot in CHicago.

Worst of all, the episode was cops and a handful of protesters dead. diaper babies. It entered mainstream In a fit of xenophobic hysteria, au- education. A common college text- thought to have exposed the nation’s thorities rounded up political radicals, book — “America: A Concise His- highest ideals as gross hypocrisies: showing little regard for civil rights or tory,” by James A. Henretta and David “The Haymarket case challenged, like criminal evidence. At a trial with hos- Brody — says the Haymarket defen- no other episode in the nineteenth tile jurors and a biased judge, eight de- dants were “victims of one of the great century, the image of the United States fendants who could not be connected miscarriages of American justice.” An- as a classless society with liberty and to the bombing were nevertheless other textbook — “American Stories,” justice for all,” wrote James Green in declared guilty. Seven received death whose authors include best-selling “Death in the Haymarket,” a popular sentences. One committed suicide in historian H. W. Brands — claims that account published in 2006. prison. Four went to the gallows. The there was “no evidence of their guilt.” n HAYMARKET CONTINUES ON A10 other three were eventually pardoned.

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A10. n Toledo Free Press n HAYMARKET CONTINUED FROM A8 “I believed all of this,” Messer-Kruse said. “I had drunk the Kool-Aid.” Then his student asked her vexing question: If the trial was a sham, what did everyone talk about for week after week?

Driven by curiosity, Messer-Kruse wanted to find out.

‘CSI: Haymarket’

His first step was to consult the conventional scholarship — works published by labor historians Henry David in 1936 and Paul Avrich in 1984. “I thought it would be easy to learn what happened,” he said. Yet neither account satisfied him. Then the Internet came to the rescue: Messer-Kruse discovered that the Library of Congress and the Chicago Historical Society had just digitized a large collection of material on Haymarket, including a transcript of the trial. He slogged through thousands of pages, consulting other primary documents to gain a sharper picture of what lay buried in the historical record.

Along the way, he realized that earlier researchers had not consulted this transcript. Instead, they had relied on an abstract of the trial prepared by defense lawyers, drawing their conclusions from a flamboyantly prejudiced account of the bombing and its aftermath.

“The best source had been hiding in plain sight,” Messer-Kruse said.

Here was a scholar’s dream: untapped evidence about a landmark moment in history. Messer-Kruse looked at Haymarket from brand-new angles, embarking on the “CSI: Haymarket” phase of his research. The trial transcript made him question the claim that friendly fire had been at least as deadly to the police as the actual bomb, so he consulted old maps and built a scale-model diorama in his basement. Cardboard cutouts represented buildings. Plastic green soldiers stood in for police and protesters. One time, his wife came down the steps to find him fixated on his miniature scene. “A beautiful mind,” she said before turning around and heading back up, in an allusion to the then-current movie about John Nash, a brilliant professor who sinks into madness.

“I was just trying to understand the evidence,” Messer-Kruse said.

This unusual approach seems to have paid off: Messer-Kruse said he believes that although it’s impossible to rule out lethal friendly fire, several policemen were probably shot by armed protesters — a fact that chips away at the belief that the anarchists were peaceful. Messer-Kruse also worked with chemists to study the forensic remains of Haymarket’s violence. He determined that the original trial experts brought in to study the bomb and bullet fragments had done their jobs well. He furthermore concluded that one of the Haymarket defendants — Louis Lingg, who killed

himself before authorities could carry out his death sentence — almost certainly built the bomb.

These findings made their way into Messer-Kruse’s first formal work of scholarship on Haymarket: a 2005 paper printed in Labor, a top academic journal.

Around the same time, Messer-Kruse organized a symposium on his work at an annual labor-history conference at Wayne State University, in Detroit.

“I expected skepticism,” he said.

“Instead, I encountered utter and complete denial of the evidence.”

The standing-room-only crowd refused to question what had become an article of faith in left-wing mythology.

“They seemed to think that our purpose as historians was to celebrate Haymarket, not to study it or challenge it,” he said.

The most provocative attack came a year later, when Bryan D. Palmer of Trent University, in Canada, published a rebuttal to Messer-Kruse. The Haymarket anarchists, he wrote, were “humane, gentle, kindly souls.” Evildoers oppressed them: “The state, the judiciary, and the capitalist class had blood on their hands in 1886–87,” he wrote. Those of us who “drink of this old wine adorned with the new label of Messer-Kruse . . . may end up with the sickly sweet repugnance of blood on our lips.”

These fighting words convinced Messer-Kruse that he needed to continue his work. He envisioned a magnum opus on Haymarket — a large book that would ask hard questions and exploit new sources. “A lot of labor historians think they must be deeply engaged with the prospects and agenda of labor unions,” MesserKruse said. “But we have an obligation to represent as best we can the objec-

tive reality of the past.”

For several years, Messer-Kruse toiled away. He produced a thick manuscript, only to find that publishers didn’t want a big book on the subject.

They feared a commercial flop. So he broke it into three parts, delivering his reinterpretation of Haymarket in a long academic paper and two peer-reviewed books: “The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists,” published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2011, and “The Haymarket Conspiracy,” published by the University of Illinois Press in summer 2012.

“My aim is not to prove that the police and the courts were right and the anarchists and their supporters were wrong,” wrote Messer-Kruse in the introduction to “Trial.” Yet the sum of his work appears to do just that. He shows that Chicago’s anarchists belonged to an international network of left-wing militants who believed that only bloodshed could bring social change. They plotted to incite violence at Haymarket. The person who threw the bomb was almost certainly Rudolph Schnaubelt, a close confederate of the defendants.

He was never brought to justice because he fled Chicago and vanished from history, though Messer-Kruse suggests that he lived out his days as a farm-equipment salesman in Buenos Aires. The eight men who were arrested received a fair trial by the standards of the day. Finally, most of the blame for their being found guilty lies with a defense team that seemed more committed to political theater than to providing competent legal counsel.

Once again, Messer-Kruse encountered the closed-minded hostility that

FEBRUARY 24, 2013 he had experienced at the Wayne State conference. When a news release for “The Haymarket Conspiracy” appeared on an online discussion board for labor historians in August, within days of Mitt Romney’s acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination, Norman Markowitz of Rutgers University posted, “Perhaps Romney will put the book on his reading list.” Dissent, a left-wing quarterly, attacked Messer-Kruse’s work, and most mainstream publications have ignored it. Messer-Kruse even battled Wikipedia editors when he tried to update the entry for Haymarket.

Strange new respect

Yet Messer-Kruse is also starting to receive a strange new respect. Last May, the Labadie Collection — the nation’s premier archive of anarchist documents, housed at the University of Michigan — asked Messer-Kruse to deliver the keynote address at its centennial exhibit. In August, the academic journal Labor History picked “Trial” as its book of the year. In the fall, Labor, the scholarly periodical, published a symposium on his work.

Colleagues offered criticism, but they also praised his “careful,” “wellargued” and “impressively nuanced” scholarship. The January 2013 issue of Choice, the professional magazine for college librarians, listed “Trial” as an outstanding academic title.

Even the best revisionist scholarship can take a long time to influence the way teachers and schools treat history, especially when the authors of leading textbooks show little interest in examining new evidence.

“I haven’t read Messer-Kruse’s book and so can’t comment,” said H. W.

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Yet change is coming, according to Eric Arnesen, a labor historian at George Washington University.

“This is going to make people pause when they get to the Haymarket part of their courses,” he said. “They won’t be able to use their old lecture notes anymore. They’ll have to bring up Timothy Messer-Kruse.” O This article appeared in the Feb. 11, 2013, issue of National Review and is reprinted with permission. John J. Miller is director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College in Michigan. He writes for National Review, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. He is the author of several books, including “The First Assassin,” a historical thriller set during the Civil War, and “The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football.”

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The company has opened offices at One SeaGate in Downtown Toledo with plenty of room for expected growth. Petty said they will begin hiring sales and technical people this year.

Petty is originally from Toledo and

formerly worked in finance for Dana Corporation, including several years in South America. He was working with ilegra as a consultant to help the company find a suitable site for starting up operations in the U.S. The firm’s leaders had decided on the Midwest and were considering locations in Ann Arbor, Columbus and Toledo while interviewing candidates to lead the new U.S. operation. Petty said they offered him the opportunity to head up the company, and so they decided upon Toledo for its home.

The Regional Growth Partnership (RGP) of Toledo played a large role in recruiting the company, facilitating discussions with the state and helping ilegra with the site selection process.

“First and foremost, these are goodpaying jobs. We are excited about what this project means to the economic growth of Northwest Ohio,” said Doug Born, vice president of business development at RGP, in a news release. “Our region’s ability to attract companies from the IT industry helps diversify our regional economy and establishes

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this area as a leading site for international business and investment.” ilegra received an incentive package from the Ohio Department of Development worth more than $260,000, as well as additional incentives from the City of Toledo.

The Ohio Tax Credit Authority approved a Job Creation Tax Credit of 45 percent for a term of seven years for ilegra as part of a JobsOhio project.

To earn that credit, the company committed to creating 25 new jobs, $2.5 million in annual payroll and $746,000 in capital investments within four years.

The City of Toledo’s economic development team also provided an incentive plan that complements the state package, according to information provided by city officials.

During the initial startup stage, ilegra will create an estimated 15 positions with a projected annual payroll of $1.05 million based on the average salary of $70,000. It is projected to employ 25 people within 24 months of operations with an estimated payroll of $2.45 million and initial capital investment of at least $500,000 for equipment and associated startup costs.

Under the Toledo Expansion Initiative, the city will rebate 10-30 percent of the employee municipal income tax withholdings paid to the city by ilegra during the prior year in the form of annual cash disbursements.

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James Petty is president of ilegra USA.

Through the Toledo Municipal Jobs Creation Tax Credit, the city has offered an annual credit equaling 40 percent of the business payroll taxes paid to the city. Those withholdings will be used to offset any business corporate income tax due by the company. ilegra has partnerships with Oracle and Microsoft, is certified by Google Enterprise to offer Google Apps for Business and is a member of the SAP Extended Business Program.

“We’re selling our expertise as a specialist that can reduce the total cost of DBA by 50 percent,” Petty said.

Focusing on the digital media/information industry where stable IT environments are critical to success, ilegra created Scagil, a product that provides troubleshooting and scalable solutions.

Scagil involves multidisciplinary teams from development and operations working together to eliminate bottlenecks by developing flexible solutions and focusing on scalability, customer feedback, rapid turnaround and business value, according to ilegra.

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Special deals Feb. 21 to March 2 benefit Leadership Toledo

By Sarah Ottney TOLEDO FREE PRESS MANAGING EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

From Feb. 21 to March 2, area diners have the opportunity to enjoy delicious dishes at dozens of locally owned restaurants while also supporting a local nonprofit that works with area youth.

Restaurant Week Toledo has grown every year and the third annual event is the biggest yet, organizers say.

The event, presented by Medical Mutual, will feature new venues as well as returning favorites and will be three days longer than last year, said co-chair Becca Gorman. Each venue will also include at least one meal designated as a healthy option. Ten percent of proceeds will benefit Leadership Toledo’s youth programs.

Each of the restaurants — including venues in Toledo as well as Holland, Maumee, Perrysburg, Swanton, Sylvania and Waterville — feature a special Restaurant Week menu priced at $10, $20 or $30. Drinks, taxes and gratuities are not included unless specified. Plate 21 is offering a special coffeehouse menu priced at $5.

Participating restaurants are Bar 145, Barr’s Public House, The Blarney Irish Pub, Bobby V’s American Grill, Burger Bar 419, Caper’s Restaurant, Gradkowski’s, ICE Restaurant and Bar, La Scola Italian Grill, Loma Linda, Mancy’s

Bluewater Grille, Mancy’s Steaks, Manhattan’s, Maumee Wines and Bistro, The Oliver House (The Café, Maumee Bay Brew Pub, Mutz and Rockwell’s), Plate 21, Poco Piatti, Registry Bistro, Rosie’s Italian Grille, Shorty’s True American Roadhouse, Tea Tree Asian Bistro, TREO, Ventura’s and Zinful.

“There really is something for everyone,” said co-chair Margot Estes. “Have a date night, meet some friends or take the kids out — it is all possible with the variety of restaurants supporting Restaurant Week Toledo.”

A portion of funds raised by Restaurant Week Toledo will help support Youth Leadership Toledo and Students in Action, two youth programs of Leadership Toledo.

Youth Leadership Toledo is a nine-month program that works with select high school sophomores to develop leadership skills with an emphasis on exploring and resolving issues faced by their local communities.

“What we see is a tremendous amount of individual personal growth,” said Leadership Toledo Executive Director Dave Schlaudecker.

“They come to understand and appreciate their talents to be leaders, to have a spirit of giving, to help motivate each other and to help give that spirit of giving to others.”

Since 1998, 697 students have participated in Youth Leadership Toledo, said Cory Dippold, as-

sociate executive director of Leadership Toledo.

This year’s class is comprised of 52 students from 33 regional high schools.

“Being a part of this wonderful program has truly opened my eyes to the opportunities to be sought out in the world, and has given me, personally, a family,” said participant Amanda Eckel of Toledo School for the Arts in an email. “Having a place to belong, with people who have the same common goal, honestly proves to be the best motivation a striving high school student could receive.

“Not only are we handed individual opportunities to succeed, but we are granted a basis for developing improvements in society, with our own groups and services,” she said. “Youth Leadership Toledo has definitely proven itself a life-changing experience, giving those involved the real world skills needed in advancing the world and creating solid relationships with those who share a similar objective.”

Students in Action, a component of the national Jefferson Awards organization, recognizes area students doing community volunteer work. Since starting in four local schools as a pilot program in 2008, the program has expanded into 31 schools, including Springfield High School, which was named one of the top three programs in the country last year, Dippold said. Participating students have logged 213,000 service hours this school year.

Restaurant Week Toledo has gotten better

every year, said Neal Kovacik, general manager of Oliver House operations. Rockwell’s has participated for the past two years and this year all four Oliver House restaurants are participating.

“It created a lot of traffic and a lot of interest last year,” Kovacik said. “It’s a great way to highlight local restaurants and a great way to get people in that may have not tried the place before, and of course it’s for a good cause.”

Many chefs created new dishes specifically for Restaurant Week.

“The best part is restaurants are featuring things they don’t normally have on their menus,” said Zinful owner Joyce Franzblau. “Everyone’s trying to stand out and draw new business, so the food’s going to be outstanding and exquisite.”

Rosie’s Italian Grille owner Phil Barone said he appreciates that all the participating restaurants are locally owned.

“People need to experience all the different restaurants Toledo offers,” Barone said. “There’s some great food in Toledo and I think Restaurant Week shows you that. And they’re all locally owned, so that’s supporting local restaurants and that’s a fantastic thing.”

Toledo Free Press is a media sponsor of Restaurant Week Toledo.

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Barr’s Public House

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3355 Briarfield Blvd., Maumee (419) 866-8466 facebook.com/BarrsPublicHouse

Hours: 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tuesday-Saturday (kitchen until 11 p.m.), closed Sunday-Monday.

The Blarney Irish Pub 601 Monroe St., Toledo; (419) 418-2339 theblarneyirishpub.com

Bar 145°

5305 Monroe St., Toledo; (419) 593-0073 bar145toledo.com

Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday-Wednesday (kitchen until 10 p.m.), 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Thursday (kitchen until 11 p.m.), 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Friday-Saturday (kitchen until midnight), open Sunday on Downtown event nights.

Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. (kitchen until 10 p.m.)

Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.

ICE Restaurant and Bar At the PNC Building, 405 Madison Ave., Toledo (419) 246-3339; icerestaurantandbar.com Hours: Lunch: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; Dinner: 4-9 p.m. WednesdayThursday, 4-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Closed Sunday.

La Scola Italian Grill

Gradkowski’s

5375 Airport Hwy., Toledo; (419) 381-2100 lascolaitaliangrill.com

At UT’s Gateway Plaza, 1440 Secor Road, Toledo (419) 725-2836; facebook.com/Gradkowskis

Hours: 4-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 4-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 4-9 p.m. Sunday.

Hours: Opens daily at 11:30 a.m.

Maumee Wines and Bistro 2556 Parkway Plaza, Maumee; (419) 893-2525 maumeewines.com

Hours (extended for RWT): Bistro seating: 5-10 p.m. daily.

Retail: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Wednesday-Saturday, closed Sunday.

Maumee Bay Brew Pub (Oliver House)

Mutz (Oliver House)

27 Broadway St., Toledo (419) 243-1302; theoliverhousetoledo.com

27 Broadway St., Toledo; (419) 243-1302 theoliverhousetoledo.com

Hours: 3-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 3-11 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, closed Sunday.

Hours: 4 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Monday-Saturday, closed Sunda

Shorty’s True American Roadhouse (Mancy’s) 5111 Monroe St., Toledo (419) 841-9505; mancys.com

Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

For more information, visit the websites restaurantweektoledo.com and leadershiptoledo.org

Rosie’s Italian Grille 606 N. McCord Road, Toledo (419) 866-5007; rosiesitaliangrille.com

Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Friday, 4-10:30 p.m. Saturday and 4-9 p.m. Sunday.

Tea Tree Asian B

At Levis Commons, 4100 Chapp (419) 874-8828; teatreeasianbist

Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m

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8165 Airport Hwy., Holland; (419) 491-1795 bobbyvsamericangrill.com

At The Oliver House, 27 Broadway St., Toledo (419) 243-1302; theoliverhousetoledo.com

Hours (extended for RWT): 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. MondayThursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1-8 p.m.

Sunday.

Hours: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Saturday, closed Sunday.

Caper’s Restaurant and Bar

Burger Bar 419

2038 S. Byrne Road, Toledo; (419) 389-9900 caperstoledo.com

4400 Heatherdowns Blvd., Toledo (419) 724-5844; burgerbar419.com

Hours: 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to midnight Friday-Saturday, closed Sunday.

Hours: Opens 11:30 a.m. Monday-Sunday.

Loma Linda

Mancy’s Steaks

Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to midnight Friday-Saturday, closed Sunday.

Hours: Lunch: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday; Dinner: 5-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 5-10 p.m.

Friday, 4:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, closed Sundays.

10400 Airport Hwy., Swanton (419) 865-5455; toledostripletreat.com/loma

953 Phillips Ave., Toledo (419) 476-4154; mancys.com

Manhattan’s

1516 Adams St., Toledo; (419) 243-6675 manhattanstoledo.com

Mancy’s Bluewater Grille 461 W. Dussel Drive, Maumee (419) 724-BLUE (2583); mancys.com

Hours: 11-2 a.m. Monday-Tuesday (kitchen until 10 p.m.), 11 a.m. to midnight Wednesday-Thursday (kitchen until 10 p.m.), 11-2 a.m. Friday (kitchen until 11 p.m.), 11-2 a.m. Saturday (kitchen until 11 p.m.), 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 4-11 p.m. Saturday, 4-9 p.m. Sunday.

Plate 21

Registry Bistro

At the Secor Building, 144 N. Superior St., Toledo (419) 725-0444; registrybistro.com

3664 Rugby Drive, Toledo (419) 385-2121; plate21.com

Hours: Hours: 5-10 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 5-11 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, closed Sunday-Monday. Bar opens at 4 p.m.

Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday.

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y-Thursday, 11:30 a.m. m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.

27 Broadway St., Toledo (419) 243-1302 theoliverhousetoledo.com

At Levis Commons, 3155 Chappel Drive, Perrysburg (419) 931-0281; pocopiatti.com Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon to 9 p.m. Sunday.

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Rockwell’s (Oliver House)

Poco Piatti

Hours: 5-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday, closed Sunday.

Zinful

TREO

7541 Dutch Road, Waterville (419) 878-9463; zinfulwine.com

5703 Main St., Sylvania (419) 882-2266; treosylvania.com

Hours (extended for RWT): 11:30 a.m. to midnight (kitchen until 10 p.m.) Monday-Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. (kitchen until 11 p.m.) Friday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. (kitchen until 8 p.m.) Sunday.

Hours: 5-9 p.m. (lounge until 10 p.m.) Monday-Thursday, 5-10 p.m. (lounge until midnight) Friday-Saturday, closed Sunday.

Ventura’s

7742 W. Bancroft St., Toledo (419) 841-7523; toledostripletreat.com/ventura Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to midnight Friday-Saturday, closed Sunday and all major holidays.

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From Tea Tree Asian Bistro’s Monk’s Garden Feast and Burger Bar 419’s Beans & Grains burger to Maumee Wines and Bistro’s Ratatouille-Vegan and Plate 21’s organic steel-cut oats, vegetarians and vegans as well as those with gluten or nut allergies have many options during Restaurant Week Toledo, area chefs and restaurant owners say.

The third annual Restaurant Week Toledo, presented by Medical Mutual, is set for Feb. 21 to March 2.

Participating restaurants are Bar 145, Barr’s Public House, The Blarney Irish Pub, Bobby V’s American Grill, Burger Bar 419, Caper’s Restaurant, Gradkowski’s, ICE Restaurant and Bar, La Scola Italian Grill, Loma Linda, Mancy’s Bluewater Grille, Mancy’s Steaks, Manhattan’s, Maumee Wines and Bistro, The Oliver House (The Café, Maumee Bay Brew Pub, Mutz and Rockwell’s), Plate 21, Poco Piatti, Registry Bistro, Rosie’s Italian Grille, Shorty’s True American Roadhouse, Tea Tree Asian Bistro, TREO, Ventura’s and Zinful.

Each restaurant will feature a special Restaurant Week menu priced at $10, $20 or $30. Drinks, taxes and gratuities are not included unless specified. Plate 21 will offer a special coffeehouse menu for $5. A portion of the proceeds will benefit local nonprofit Leadership Toledo’s youth programs.

Offering options for everyone is important, said Restaurant Week Toledo co-chair Margot Estes.

“Our presenting sponsor, Medical Mutual, challenged us to include a healthy option on each Restaurant Week Toledo menu this year,” Estes said. “We have been really pleased with the variety of choices, several of which are vegetarian, from our participating restaurants.”

Restaurant owners said they strive to meet the needs of all diners.

“For people who have dietary restrictions, dining out can be kind of challenging,” said Erika Rapp, coowner and chef at Registry Bistro in Downtown Toledo. “If someone is a vegetarian, some places don’t even have a vegetarian option and then they end up having a dish that’s not necessarily conceived, it’s just put together on the fly.

“I try to have something for people so they don’t have to ask for something special,” Rapp said. “It can become something of an anxiety if you’re out with a group of friends, so it’s nice to offer something that takes

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Monk’s Garden Feast at Tea Tree Asian Bistro at Levis Commons is a vegetarian option available during Restaurant Week Toledo.

the guessing game away and just lets the guests enjoy themselves.”

Registry Bistro’s winter green salad appetizer is vegetarian and gluten-free, Rapp said. Another vegetarian option is kabocha squash and blue cheese ravioli. The tamarind grilled Scottish salmon served with chilled mango quinoa is gluten-free and nut-free.

South Toledo coffeehouse Plate 21 is one of the most vegetarian- and veganfriendly places in town, said owner Sandy Spang.

“I’ve been a vegetarian for 35 years and most of my staff is vegetarian or vegan,” Spang said. “Everything we’re offering is vegetarian. Our steel-cut oats are vegan and several of our soups that week are vegan. We will have something for everybody.”

Burger Bar 419 offers Beans & Grains, a burger featuring roasted eggplant, onions, garlic, quinoa, wild rice and garbanzo beans mixed,

grilled and topped with granny apple slaw. Another vegetarian option is the Marinated Mushroom, featuring two portabella mushroom caps with brie cheese, arugula and a grilled tomato.

Gluten-free buns are available for a $2 upcharge and any burger on the menu can be prepared gluten-free, said co-owner Tony House, whose wife is gluten-intolerant.

“We just want to make sure we don’t discount the growing population of vegetarians and vegans and we want to make sure what we do provide for them is the same freshness and great quality of any of our other dishes,” House said.

Most dishes can be modified to accommodate diners’ needs, said Joyce Franzblau, owner of Zinful in Waterville.

“We can break down the entrée and take out what may not fit for [the guest],” Franzblau said. “Our chef is always able to prepare gluten-free, vegetarian or

vegan options if you let us know you’re here. We can create it on the fly for them or we actually have customers who call us in advance. We’re very able and willing to do that.”

Zinful’s tomato bisque soup served with grilled gouda cheese is a vegetarian option. The eatery will also offer portabella stuffed mushrooms and vegetarian lettuce wraps, which are gluten-free for those who can tolerate rice flour.

As a vegetarian option, Kevin Bowers, owner and chef of Bobby V’s American Grill, is offering squash wellington, with butternut squash, mushroom duxelles, onions, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes and orange hollandaise. Bowers also said he is happy to accommodate the needs of diners who ask.

“If guests give me an idea of what they want, I’ll whip up something,” Bowers said. “I can substitute things out and tailor it to their needs. I don’t mind doing that.”

Another gluten-free option is the

“huge and tender” sea scallops at ICE Restaurant and Bar in Downtown Toledo, said owner Donna Weiser.

The venue’s steak kabob and bourbon BBQ pork chop entrées are also glutenfree as well as appetizers like the shrimp sautee and popular beef tenderloin tips called ICE bites, Weiser said.

Ratatouille-Vegan, a vegan dish offered at Maumee Wines and Bistro in Maumee, is a classic province vegetable stew with eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, mushrooms, peppers, garlic and rosemary, said chef Bill Kolhoff.

Tea Tree Asian Bistro at Levis Commons is offering Monk’s Garden Feast, featuring steamed broccoli, bamboo shoots, baby corn, zucchini, mushrooms, green peppers, carrots and onions stir-fried in white wine sauce.

La Scola Italian Grill is offering a roasted vegetable lasagna while TREO in Sylvania is offering a vegetarian option of stuffed portabella mushroom caps. O

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Twenty-one communications positions and six records positions were open and are now being filled at the Toledo Police Department. But the reason for the high number of vacancies is disputed.

Sgt. Joe Heffernan, public information officer for the Toledo Police Department (TPD), said the department has not been able to fill vacant positions and is trying to restore TPD’s numbers to where they were in 2006 before the recession hit.

“We’ve got to the point now where we need to hire people back,” he said, adding that the 2013 budget provided funds for this purpose.

Councilman D. Michael Collins, chair of Council’s Public Safety, Law & Criminal Justice committee, said the communications vacancies could be attributed to, “by all appearances, a very hostile environment, solely as a result of top police division leadership responsible for their operations.”

Those in the communications positions are responsible for answering and dispatching 911 calls.

He also said the records position vacancies are a result of layoffs, retirements and transfers, adding that not having these positions filled makes reporting crime data to the FBI more difficult.

Collins said he requested the exit interviews of the communications employees who have left in the past year three weeks ago, but he has not received them yet.

“My strong suspicions are that the conditions of employment, as it relates to the supervision from the police department, are the major reason for the inability to retain employees in that very important public safety function,” he said. “My reason for being concerned with that particular area is because officer safety can be directly compromised when our call takers and dispatchers are working under the conditions that currently exist.”

Heffernan said he did not specifically know what situation Collins was referring to and declined to comment on specific reasons personnel gave for leaving.

He also said calling the communications department a “hostile work environment” was a “very general statement.”

Collins pointed to a resignation letter from a communications employee dated Nov. 21, 2012. In the letter sent to several city officials, the former employee said he had spoken to human resources, affirmative action and union representatives about “the harassment” at the

communications center.

“I have suffered documented health issues from the stress and emotional abuse over this harassment and retaliation,” the letter read.

“Although I am able to maintain the ability to perform my job, the working environment continues to be a concern.”

Heffernan said he had not heard of that specific case with the letter.

Councilman George Sarantou, also a member of the public safety committee, said the communications department is “absolutely critical” to public safety and having enough workers to handle calls improves response time.

“Quite frankly, that is a difficult job and a very stressful job so we tend to have an inordinate amount of people [leaving the positions],” he said.

Heffernan said employee assistance programs are in place and, “We try to be in tune with our employees and any type of signs that the employee is emotionally in trouble.”

The communications and records divisions have been functioning through a rotating schedule system, with staffers doing overtime when needed, Heffernan said. There are currently 24 records clerks, 11 call takers and 36 dispatchers.

Those hired into the communications division start off as 911 call intakers, who record the most crucial information. After a year, the call intakers can be promoted to dispatchers, who communicate with the police officers. The records department has several functions, including data input and taking and keeping records.

“Our mission is to protect and serve. If someone’s kicking in your backdoor and breaking in your house and you’re calling 911, our primary mission is there’s someone to answer that 911 call quickly and someone to dispatch that police crew,” Heffernan said. “The service part of it is where we take cuts first.”

This could mean cutting nonpriority positions, community services and scaling back detectives in favor of more personnel on the streets, he said.

Deputy Mayor of Public Safety and Personnel Shirley Green said filling these positions is in progress and that the city is drawing from an eligibility list it has on file.

Successful applicants need to have a high school diploma or GED, two years of experience in customer service or problem-solving and be able to pass a typing test and background check. Those with public safety experience are preferred. After the hiring process, the new hires must also pass the training process, Green said.

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By Sarah Ottney

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For nearly a year, Walt Churchill’s Markets in Perrysburg and Maumee have served as test market sites for an innovative new line of glass food containers from Owens-Illinois (O-I) called Versa.

Almost everyone has tried to pour sauce neatly from a jar only to have it splash messily over the rim or tried in vain to scrape the last drops of salsa from a jar without hitting their knuckles on the rim.

O-I aims to address those familiar consumer hassles with its Versa line, which it plans to bring to retail store shelves throughout the U.S., Europe and South America.

To test the new containers, O-I partnered with Churchill’s, which agreed to sell a limited run of each jar filled with its own signature line of products.

“They have the creativity of coming up with a jar they think has potential and then we try to match a product to the jar,” said Walt Churchill, owner and president of Walt Churchill’s Market.

“They want to experiment with different containers and see how the market accepts them and we’re trying to develop a private label, a stable of signature products you might say.

Over the years we’ve been pushing the envelope, working with different companies, so this was just a natural extension of that. I’m looking forward to continuing doing these new products.”

Saga Shoffner, O-I’s vice president of global marketing, said Churchill’s was “the perfect partner.”

“It’s in our backyard, a specialty grocery store, known and trusted in the marketplace. They bring special foods to market for their customers and they are interested in experimenting,” Shoffner said.

The first product, which hit shelves at Churchill’s in April, was the Ver-

saFlow, a 26-ounce marinara-style jar with a built-in pour spout. A smaller 12-ounce version, designed for sauces and condiments, launched in October.

The limited run of larger marinara jars is sold out, but Churchill’s still carries honey chipotle sauce in the smaller VersaFlow jars.

The VersaFlip jar is the third and most recent product in the Versa line.

Filled with 16 ounces of Churchill’s special recipe Salsa Rustica, the VersaFlip debuted Jan. 18. Northwest Ohio is the only testing location in the U.S. for the new glass container.

The VersaFlip’s unique design features a wide opening for easy dipping and, once the salsa is too low for dipping, facets along the lower half of the jar allow it to be tipped and stay tipped, making it easier to reach the last bit of salsa.

The Versa brand is all about making the consumer experience with food better, Shoffner said.

“We’ve had a really good response from people,” Shoffner said.

“Overwhelmingly when people see [the VersaFlow], it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s fantastic!’ It’s an immediate get. It’s similar with the VersaFlip. When it’s sitting here, it looks like a regular jar, but the minute you tip it, people get it. They’re like ‘Oh, that’s so cool. Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?’

It’s easy to envision a lot of different products in this.”

The products seem to be resonating with consumers. Half the limited run of salsa jars have already been sold, Shoffner said.

O-I’s focus has shifted from simply selling glass products to being a leader in innovation, Shoffner said.

“At one point, O-I’s business was driven by more of a commodity volume. How many bottles can we sell you today?” Shoffner said. “The O-I today and in the future is focused more on our customers’ needs and driving their business through bringing innovation that helps our

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Saga Shoffner, vP of global marketing for Owens-Illinois, DISPLAYS O-I’s VersaFlip and VersaFlow food containers.

customers differentiate themselves on the retail shelf.”

O-I is working on finding a commercial customer for its Versa jars and more Versa designs are in the works, Shoffner said.

“Right now we’re working all over the world with our marketing

and sales teams to commercialize it with a customer,” Shoffner said.

“There’s more to come in the Versa pipeline, absolutely.”

Churchill’s Markets are located at 26625 Dixie Hwy. in Perrysburg and 3320 Briarfield Blvd. in Maumee.

Owens-Illinois, headquartered in

Perrysburg, is the world’s largest glass container manufacturer. The company employs more than 24,000 people at 81 plants in 21 countries and had revenues of $7.4 billion in 2011.

For more information, visit the websites www.o-i.com and www. waltchurchillsmarket.com. O

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Why FDIC insurance is not a good idea

hroughout the coming weeks I am going to spend some time on a particularly horrible piece of legislation that went into full effect Jan. 1. There are so many bad things in this law that I can’t do it justice with only one short column, so I will address different aspects over a period of time. This serves dual purposes: Firstly, I hope that it will keep you from getting bored on one subject and secondly, most importantly, it will give my blood pressure time to get back to normal.

One of the first provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act I would like to look at is Title III. There are several key things in Title III that sound useful. For example, eliminating the Office of Thrift Supervision and moving its responsibilities to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve. This isn’t necessarily a bad idea, except no jobs were eliminated so no reduction in costs was seen.

I want to discuss the Title III provision that raised the federal deposit insurance level to 250,000 dollars and expanded the assessment base for deposit insurance to total consolidated

assets minus tangible equity.

Now, I know that I will get some pushback from my readers about FDIC protecting the depositors and ordinary people from bank failures.

The point I am trying to make is that if depositors are fully insured by the taxpayers and banks are fully insured by the taxpayers, what incentive is there for prudent behavior of either party?

If your money is insured to $250,000, do you exercise any due diligence on the financial Gary L. institution you put your money in? Of course not. Why should you? It just doesn’t matter what the balance sheet looks like.

Deposit insurance started in 1934 for $2,500 per account and now has grown to $250,000 per account. “Deposit insurance has taken deep root in the American banking system as an effective way to prevent runs by bank depositors, [but] it distorts incentives in the banking system and may not, on

balance, help consumers,” according to Hester Peirce of the Mercatus Center.

President Franklin Roosevelt and his Treasury secretary at the time both opposed federal deposit insurance because there was a fear that it would dull banks’ risk management.

Furthermore, deposit insurance decreases depositors’ incentive to monitor banks because if something goes wrong the federal government will make good on the bank’s obligations should RATHBUN the bank fail to do so.

It is easy to see that deposit insurance changes the behavior of both parties. If you did not have FDIC insurance on your deposits you would make sure the bank is sound with proper business practices and use more than one institution to prevent concentration of household assets.

Since the bank has no accountability to the account holders it can also engage in activity that will potentially bring in the most revenue instead of

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Since the bank has no accountability to the account holders it can also engage in activity that will potentially bring in the most revenue instead of doing what it needs to do to protect the assets of the depositors.”

doing what it needs to do to protect the assets of the depositors.

Title III also expands the base for deposit insurance. It is now based on total consolidated assets minus tangible equity. This change effectively shifts more of the assessment burden from community banks to the larger

institutions. This shift will further embolden these larger banks to demand a government bailout in the future, based on the fact that they have borne more of the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) assessment burden.

These changes are happening at a time when the DIF is already under great stress. By increasing the deposit insurance, Dodd-Frank has further entrenched the government, instead of the market, as the primary monitor of banks. Once again, the nanny state is looking out for you and if something goes wrong it will certainly kiss it and make it feel better while someone else pays for it. O Gary L. Rathbun is the president and CEO of Private Wealth Consultants, LTD. He can be heard every day on 1370 WSPD at 4:06 p.m. on “After the Bell,” everyday on the Afternoon Drive, and every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening at 6 p.m. throughout Northern Ohio on “Eye on Your Money.”

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“We just want to make people aware, number one of who we are and what we do and we also want them to be aware of some of the things they should know as they move toward retirement,” Clair said.

“The biggest issue we’re gonna be talking about is the ongoing fiscal cliff

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Most of their clients are worried about outliving their money, they said, adding that they believe people should start planning for retirement sooner rather than later.

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Did you know that just one 12-ounce can of regular soda contains eight teaspoons of sugar? That’s 130 calories and zero nutrition.

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Crystal Bowersox will play a Toledo School for the Arts benefit on March 3 at the SeaGate COnvention Centre.

Life falls into place for Bowersox

By Vicki L. Kroll

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer vkroll@toledofreepress.com

Every morning when I wake up and my feet touch the ground There’s no telling what the day may bring, something lost, something found Then I look at you, you’re up so high, my saving grace That’s how I know everything falls into place That’s the chorus of a jaunty love song called “Fall Into Place” from Crystal Bowersox’s forthcoming disc, “All That For This.”

“That song’s really special; my husband [Brian Walker] and I wrote it together, and we finished it up with [musician and producer] Jono Manson in Santa Fe,” she said. “I feel like my life has fallen into place. Everything is as it should be, and I’m very happy in this place and time.”

The singer-songwriter sounded content during a call from her home in Portland, Ore. “I’m just kind of laying low until the tour kicks off,” Bowersox said as she finished breakfast. “I just made some bacon and eggs.”

And she made a thoughtful, heart-

felt disc due on Shanachie Entertainment on March 26.

“It was a labor of love,” she said.

“Everything was almost too easy.”

A tweet led her to the disc’s producer, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos.

“There’s an artist by the name of Jackie Greene; I’ve always been a fan of his. He actually opened for B.B. King at the Stranahan Theater a few years back.

My dad picked up his CD at the show and gave it to me,” Bowersox said.

“Jackie Greene sent me a little smiley face kind of thing [on Twitter], and I totally geeked out and I sent him a message and asked him if he had any producer recommendations. He rattled off a few names and I looked them all up, and it turns out that Steve also is a resident of Portland, so it just worked out.

“It was so comfortable. I would wake up in the morning, take my boy to preschool, go to the studio, go to work — it was very normal and relaxing. I got to sleep in my own bed each night,” she said. “This was a really comfortable way of making music, and I think that came through in the music.”

The 27-year-old wrote or cowrote 11 of the 12 tracks on the nearly 51-minute disc. Berlin suggested the cover: The Sundays’

“Here’s Where the Story Ends.”

“It was this happy, bouncy, poppy — the music itself made me feel bright. And in a place like Portland, I think that’s important because it rains a lot,” Bowersox said and laughed.

“I took a closer listen to the lyric and the chorus line, ‘It’s a little souvenir of a terrible year that makes my eyes feel sore.’ I found my own way to relate to it; it’s a personal story of mine and I attached it to the meaning of the lyric and was able to connect to the material.

“That’s really important to me. I can’t sing a song to sing a song; I have to connect in some way.”

The 2010 “American Idol” runnerup and Jakob Dylan connect on a duet, “Stitches.”

“I’ve always been a fan of Jakob Dylan and The Wallflowers,” Bowersox said. “I remember walking around my mom’s farm listening to ‘Bringing Down the Horse,’ the album in its entirety. I feel it helped me cope through some of the more difficult periods of my teenage years. You lose yourself in music and it guides you.”

Fans can hear some new music when Bowersox comes to the SeaGate Convention Centre for a 7:30 p.m. concert March 3. Tickets are $37; the show is a benefit for the

Toledo School for the Arts.

“Toledo School for the Arts was a place where I felt like I finally fit in.

That’s important when you’re growing up, to find a place where you belong.

And even though I was still kind of a hellion, I really felt safe there,” the Elliston native said.

Bowersox will take that feistiness and big voice to New York City this spring.

“About a year ago, I let out I guess you could say a prayer to the universe and I just said: I would like to do Broadway someday. I don’t know when, in what capacity, but that’s something I’d like to explore, musical theater,” she recalled.

One year later, the phone rang with an offer to star in “Always…Patsy Cline.”

“It feels right. I’ve always loved Patsy’s music,” Bowersox said. “Rehearsals start in May, the show opens in June and I’ll stay there as long as they’ll have me.”

Will there be a special rate for Northwest Ohioans to make the pilgrimage to the Big Apple to see her portray the legendary singer?

“You’ll have to talk to the show producers,” she said and laughed. “I don’t know, but that would be great though.

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Andrew Z relaunches radio show via smartphone app Andrew Zepeda hasn’t listened to Star 105 since Cumulus Media abruptly dropped his morning show Dec. 26 — but not out of spite. His radio is broken.

“The ironic thing is the one car we have, the radio broke the week after we got fired, I swear to God,” Zepeda said. “So I haven’t really listened to terrestrial radio ANDREW Z since I left. I don’t have the money to get it fixed. Actually I use my phone. That’s what I use for all my entertainment now.”

Fittingly, Zepeda plans to relaunch “Andrew Z in the Morning” on Feb. 25 via a free mobile app called Toledo’s APP Station.

The morning show will stream live 6:30-9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Afterward, the show will replay on a loop all day.

The show will be the first Toledo radio station exclusively available via smartphone, Zepeda said. The app is available for Android and will be available for iPhones soon.

“We are jumping on a concept that is sweeping larger U.S. cities like Dallas, Los Angeles and Chicago, but has yet to make its way to medium size markets like Toledo … until now!” Zepeda posted on his Facebook page Feb. 18.

Mobile radio apps are the future of the genre, Zepeda said.

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“Whether it’s Pandora or Spotify, it’s hard to find someone that hasn’t (listened to something on their mobile device during the past week).

Everyone’s doing it now,” Zepeda said, adding that at least one car manufacturer is planning to incorporate mobile radio apps into its dashboards.

“We’re going to be right next to terrestrial radio at some point,” Zepeda said. “It’s the way the future is going.”

The show’s cast will feature familiar voices, including Zepeda’s wife Michelle, Brandon Doriot, Calen Savidge and Corey W. King.

“It’s going to be the same kind of energy we had on the other show, but a lot less restrictions where we can go comedically,” Doriot said. “We’ll have no real censors. My humor has always been a little edgy. I’ll probably gain an inch, but we also don’t want to alienate people.”

Zepeda said he is confident people will seek out the show because “it is still the best show in Toledo.”

“We all have enough personal pride in what we do that we wouldn’t launch this if we didn’t know we had a really great product to put out there,” Zepeda said.

If all goes well, Zepeda plans to add channels featuring local musicians and comedians.

“The cool thing is it’s endless the amount of stations you can put on there,” Zepeda said.

To start, the show will broadcast from Zepeda’s Perrysburg home, but he hopes to find more sponsors and studio space soon. Zepeda also alluded to another project in the works featuring more traditional media that would be announced soon.

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In October, Mayberry found Zepeda violated his intervention in

lieu of conviction by participating in a Sept. 13 celebrity charity boxing match at which alcohol was served. The violation meant Zepeda was convicted of three felony charges related to a 2010 break-in at his former business in Perrysburg. An appeal is pending.

“I couldn’t have been more blindsided,” Zepeda said. “Days earlier, we had conversations with the higherups that said, ‘Oh, don’t worry. Everything’s good.’”

It was “a hopeless time,” Zepeda said. “There’s been some dark times over the last couple years, but I thought, “There’s no way to come back from this,” Zepeda said. “It’s what I’ve done my entire adult life and I really didn’t see an out this time. It was a tough time.”

Matt Spaulding, vice president and market manager for Cumulus Media, agreed the firing was abrupt, but declined to comment further, saying

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want to continue making the same mistake over and over,” Doriot said.

“I went a few weeks without really contacting him and when you get away from that and all you read is the bad stuff, it’s easy to say, ‘This is a mistake.’ But then we talked and all that old chemistry comes back and you realize it’s a good thing. And if I can make money doing it, I don’t see why I wouldn’t.”

Zepeda said fans of the show are excited.

“It’s funny because it drives people who don’t listen to the show crazy,” Zepeda said. “They’re like, “Why do they keep supporting this guy?’ I think if you don’t listen to the show, you don’t get it. You either get it or you don’t.

“The morning bond is such an intimate bond with somebody,” Zepeda said. “It’s when they first wake up and it’s usually just you and them in the car. The bond we’ve had with our listeners over the past eight years is just amazing and they support you through everything. We’re just super excited.” O

only that “there are several reasons and Andrew is aware of each.”

After the firing, it wasn’t clear what would happen to the show.

Three cast members, Jerry Pickering aka Avalanche, Steve Reamey aka Gay Steve and Carlos Dias, were offered and took positions at Cumulus Media. Donny Palicki aka Donny P is no longer working in radio, Zepeda said.

Those who remained initially weren’t sure they wanted to stick with him for another try, Zepeda said.

“Not everyone was on board at first, but listeners were posting on Facebook, asking ‘When are you guys coming back?’ and I said, ‘You know what? We have to do this because this is what I do. It’s the only thing I know.

It’s what I love to do,’” Zepeda said.

Doriot said it was “disheartening” to see the show’s “forward momentum come to a grinding halt” and he had to do some soul-searching before agreeing to do another show.

“When you go through that, it does occur to you that you don’t

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