The Blade • 5th March 2022

A Toledo Imam travels the state tending to inmates' souls

Fewer came this time. A single, positive coronavirus case discovered that very morning had forced the A2 bloc to initiate a two-week ...

The Blade • 23rd January 2022

Endurance test: Even after coronavirus retreats, the battle continues for long-haulers

Marcus Hartford can put on his socks. He can slip on his shirts. He can pull up his pants. He can get off the couch. He can stand. He can walk. He can use ...

The Blade • 7th November 2021

A tale of two swords: Local families' history points back to George Washington

FREMONT — Probably no one knew when the last reunion had been, or when the next one would be, or even if this ritual had ever before been held among graves. ...

The Blade • 11th September 2021

20 years later: Toledo firefighter visits NYC for 9/11 anniversary

As though in respect of the approaching anniversary, the skies over New York City wore a somber face Thursday afternoon. The mourning clouds refrained ...

The Blade • 9th September 2021

20 years later: How do we teach 9/11?

As American Airlines Flight 11 veered south, off-course, toward the Hudson River, mere miles away from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., ...

The Blade • 7th September 2021

20 years later: How do we remember 9/11?

Were it to be visited by an expedition of archeologists in a century or in a millennium, what would it mean?

The Blade • 31st January 2021

Great Migration transformed Toledo as blacks from South sought better life

It was 1943, and Washington Clark wasn’t going to let Hitler kill him – not after he’d made it this far.

The Blade • 1st August 2021

UFOs are real, government says; NW Ohio a hotbed of 'visitations'

LIMA, Ohio  — Sometime in the mid-2000s, as he always did, Michael Krick looked up. The craft he saw this time was a smooth capsule the size of a ...

21st September 2020

Bucking Buckley: Finding Conservatism(s) at Yale

“I think there is a reasonable and not unprincipled understanding of why Trump was able to win, and that understanding starts from the premise that conservatism failed.”

The Blade • 28th February 2021

Dissertation tells tale of family's journey from West Africa to Toledo

Kimberly Caldwell knew they were close when the hum of the rubber tires changed. Asphalt melted into red brick as her parents’ 1953 Ford rounded the bend ...

The Blade • 31st January 2021

On the journey to find himself, Toledoan James Starks ended where he started

There was nothing remarkable about the moment that upended the life of James Starks. It was a standard practice session, and his was a standard move....

The Blade • 20th January 2021

Blue Christmas: Worship services geared toward grieving resonate this year

What really got to Carol Culberson were the Hallmark commercials.  Again and again they filled her television screen, and again and again they showed her ....

The Blade • 2nd August 2021

As light pollution encroaches on night skies, astronomers dream of a clear view of the Milky Way

Once upon a time, a boy looked up and saw the sky. Out in the lands of Geauga County, where trees bled gold and alpacas roamed, he saw the stars.

The Blade • 20th June 2021

Following faith: Two paths to priesthood began in science, art

Joseph Mominee thought he would be a scientist; Albert Beltz thought he'd be an artist. Both were right – just not in the way they expected.

The Blade • 13th June 2021

For Whitehouse's Elliot Tramer, journaling and birding have gone together since 1966

At some point on Jan. 1, 1966, Elliot Tramer noticed something fascinating. He opened a white hardbound leather diary — a 9 by 6 Dailyaide, purchased from ...

Union News Daily • 21st April 2020

As COVID-19 shuts down places of worship, faith communities build new connections

Prosnit noted one more key factor driving the increase in religious engagement, the very same one that Masjid Darul Islam has hastened to implement: the switch to online worship. It’s a transition that has been unfolding slowly but steadily for the past decade, adopted by some, ignored by others. Then came the pandemic.

The Blade • 20th December 2020

As friends celebrate Christmas, Muslims navigate religious, cultural implications

Rehana Ahmed doesn’t recall meeting many Catholics at her Catholic high school. In fact, she estimates that about 80 percent of the students at Cathedral High School in Lahore, Pakistan, were just like her: proudly practicing Muslims. Right up until she graduated in 1967, she read Scripture in her Bible study classes — ”an easy A,” she recalled — attended church services and, come the holiday season, belted out the Christmas carols she knew by heart. She and her peers always looked forward to the school’s Christmas parties, where Santa Claus would arrive with mountains of presents....

Union News Daily • 5th July 2020

The Academy of Our Lady of Peace saves itself from closure

Patricia Payton was reliving a nightmare. Just three years ago, the Diocese of Paterson had closed Holy Family School, the Catholic elementary school her fourth-grade daughter had been attending since kindergarten. Payton and others fought the closure for a year, launching a fundraiser and reaching out to alumni, to no avail. At the time, she had felt sadness and melancholy. Now, though, she burned with anger.

Yale Daily News Magazine • 15th December 2016

At the Intersection: The Ongoing Battle Over Water, Oil and Sovereignty

First came the battle cry: “We can’t drink oil!” Then the resounding response: “Keep it in the soil!” Drivers honked their horns. Rush-hour traffic screeched to a halt, as the stoplight went from red to green to yellow and back to red again without a single vehicle moving. At the center of the intersection of College and Chapel streets, in front of TD Bank, a line of defiant protesters stood

Yale Daily News Sci-Tech • 28th February 2016

Yale researchers advance search for dark matter

Decades after dark matter was first discovered, a Yale-built detection device is leading the search for the invisible phenomenon. --------One reader's comment on the article: "AHMED ELBENNI deserves special recognition for his success in translating some very deep science into terms understandable to the YDN readership, including careful selection and arrangements of relevant bits from the HAYSTAC of information this story encompasses."