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DOLLARS AND SENSE Alan Lancz | Registered Investment Advisor Bankrate reports just 6% of the nearly 400 items the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks are cheaper today than before the pandemic-induced recession, and most people are feeling it in their wallet. Still, inflation is at the lowest point it’s been since March 2021. At the same time, the Dow Jones is hovering around 40,000 and a record hig...

Saving our Community: One Year Later | Peace in Motion Malcolm Cunningham & Josh Davies, Save our Community School-based team It’s been a little over a year since Malcolm Cunningham was tabbed as the leader of Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz’s initiative to combat gun violence in Toledo. In that time, there’s been a significant change in the number of gun violence-related homicides - since the peak d...

“NEVER HAVE A BAD HAIR DAY: REDEFINING RESILIENCE BY EMBRACING LIFE CHALLENGES” McKenna Reitz - Author | “Never Have a Bad Hair Day: Redefining Resilience by Embracing Life’s Challenges” Former Springfield Schools’ teacher and volleyball coach, and Alopecia Areata-aware spokesperson, McKenna Reitz, has been on talk shows, she’s been on the TEDx circuit, and now she’s getting ready to release her f...

A new electric vehicle center at Toledo Public Schools’ Toledo Technology Academy will teach the mechanics and engineers of the future all about the cars and trucks that are quickly gaining a major presence on roads around the world. The initiative is something that car dealers and UAW representatives have been calling for for years and will keep Toledo at the forefront of the vehicle manufacturin...

Leading Edge | Historic election, partnerships for growth, Wood Co. Fair - July 28, 20 Dr. Sam Nelson – University of Toledo, Political Science and Public Administration It’s been an historic summer ahead of the presidential election in the fall, with an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump followed one week later by President Biden announcing he will not be running for re-electi...

For more than two years, WTOL’s 11 Investigates team has looked into the blight issue in the city of Toledo. There are hundreds of homes that are uncared for or abandoned. And many times, the owners simply don't pay their real estate taxes.       But there’s something our team has never experienced before… a series of properties that have seemingly slipped under the radar of state and city off...

Rick Longenecker is on a mission to connect UToledo graduates from around the country and help them share there stories. Also, teaching kids skills of the future.

Jamie Farr, well-known to Toledoans for his years on the hit television show M*A*S*H, as well as the professional women's golf tournament that bore his name, is 90!

Base Molecular Resonance Bo Short | Base Molecular Resonance Technologies   Lee Duke | Base Molecular Resonance Technologies    Touting it as a piece of technology with applications in military, medical, and security - BMRT contends that its Base Molecular Resonance tool will give those who have cancer and don’t know it more time - it will give schools, malls, governmental building a much more adv...

Rossford Schools and the benefits of business Dan Creps | Superintendent = Rossford Schools Mayor Neil MacKinnon | Rossford  Northwest Ohio is an interesting study when it comes to its schools. As of late, a suburban Toledo district that’s been growing by leaps and bounds over the last two decades doesn’t have room for more kids - and voters have turned down two straight levy requests. The money t...

City of Toledo Let’s Move program City of Toledo, Director of Parks and Youth Services Jacqueline Johnson Mercy Health Registered Nurse Sandy Sulier Mercy Health Nurse Coordinator Bethany Pfeiffer Let’s Move is a city of Toledo-run program designed to improve the overall health of Toledoans. Flag City Honor Flight Bob Weinberg – Flag City Honor Flight

NCAA Revenue Sharing and Lawsuit Settlement Stewart Mandell | College Football Editor-in-Chief | The Athletic  We are living through what will undoubtedly be the redefining of college sports as we know it. The NCAA is about to not only settle a series of multi-million dollar lawsuits, but also embark on a revenue sharing program that will see Power 5 conference teams (Big Ten included) flooded wit...

Carol Ann LaBounty – daughter of D-Day paratrooper It’s Memorial Day weekend - a day for remembrance of those who have died in service to our country. In a matter of weeks, Carol Ann LaBounty and her family will undertake a journey thousands of miles away. They’re headed to Normandy, France. This year marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy in what w...

Catching up with the President of Toledo City Council Carrie Hartman. Who is taking the ball when it comes to QOL? It’s not ProMedica - it’s not UT. What’s going on with the proposed roundabout at Secor and Kenwood. Hunter Brucks was given the keys to the summer concert series - so far there have been two shows booked. Life expectancy study from Area Office on Aging shows 20-year gap between Vistu...

Area Office on Aging - A Tale of Two Cities Within One City Justin Moor - Exec. Dir. - Area Office on Aging A Tale of Two Cities Within One City focuses on two neighborhoods, one that has the highest average life expectancy and one that has the lowest life expectancy, both in the same city, Toledo, and just less than four miles apart. With this knowledge the Area Office on Aging felt the responsib...

Toledo: a tech town? Brandy Alexander - Activate Innovate Organizer | CEO, TandemTide Marketing Michael Saleh - Technology Advisor & Consultant, JumpStart Inc. The gameplan for Toledo’s Uptown was set. There would be a technology incubator going into the newly refurbished Jefferson Center. The jobs and the production coming out of the center would revolutionize Toledo’s identity and future for...

Tom Seeman | Author | Toledo Native Tom Seeman's book, Animals I want to See, is a lyrical coming-of-age story set in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, which explores themes of identity, ambition, religion, and friendship—often across racial and social lines. Seeman grew up in Toledo in the 1960s. Money Matters Billy Horn | Savage & Associates Interest Rates are still higher than they've b...

Chicks for Charity Emily Zarecki & Mona Shousher Chicks for Charity provides girls and women of all ages with the inspiration and opportunity to participate in giving back, maximize impact, and experience the joy and dignity of being philanthropic. It’s not about how much you give. It’s the idea that you want to help. BGSU Labor Trafficking Education and Research Initiative Lara B. Wilken, DNP...

LeSean Shaw – VP, Empowered AI It was the promise to not only transform a part of Toledo’s Uptown area, but also to bring change and create career opportunities for Toledo’s underserved communities by teaching people to code. However, the promise, the plan, the future wasn’t to be - as the powers behind the west coast tech hub operation Bitwise were found to be robbing Peter to pay Paul to keep th...

DAVID MANN - PRESIDENT & CEO - LUCAS COUNTY LAND BANK The Lucas County Land Bank hosted a community update and debuted a series of short films showcasing its work building neighborhoods recently at the Imagination Station. The event was to highlight progress under the Land Bank’s five-year strategic plan called Building neighborhoods and new initiatives to invest in land, buildings, and people...

H.O.O.V.E.S founder Amanda Held and veteran Dave Barker discuss a new documentary that has been produced about the non-profit organization that helps veterans struggling with mental health. John Burchfield talks about Tuesday’s Solar Eclipse and what towns and cities across the country and in Ohio will see the longest duration of darkness. Denny Vennekotter and Keith Truckor, area farmers from Put...

GUESTS:  Bob Savage Sr. and Micheal Alexander WTOL 11 recently reported how some local business leaders were “working to gather petitions to equalize mayoral and city council term limits.” According to a press release from BJ Fischer, the individuals feel that other cities in Ohio have benefited from the stability that having a mayor in office more than two terms can provide. The question would go...

Lance Woodworth - President and CEO | Destination Toledo Toledo’s always wanted to be more - and there are those who are trying to make it happen - but it seems like there are those who want to keep it right where it is or where it’s been. So what is Toledo's brand? When you are charged with selling the image and potential of the city to businesses, conventions, or individual people, what is t...

Ed Moore - Dir. of Public Utilities | Toledo There are stressful jobs. We can argue about that all day long. But when you're the person in charge of a major metropolitan area's water system you can definitely say, that's stressful. City of Toledo, Director of Public Utilities, Ed Moore, announced his retirement recently. We asked Moore about the state of the region’s water system in th...

Stan Eichelbaum - President, Marketing Developments/Planning Developments, Inc. Mall and retail consultant Stan Eichelbaum has been called a shopping savant. He was instrumental in making Toledo’s Franklin Park Mall a success in the 1970s. At the time - the mall was about retail greatness and less about a real estate transaction - securing anchors and bringing in unique to the market shopping oppo...