Lucas County Auditor Anita Lopez was visibly sweating in the evening heat Thursday night, as she furiously worked the patio outside El Camino Real, where she was celebrating a "40-something" birthday with more than 100 of her closest Democratic pals at a political fundraiser.

But she also was feeling the heat of a furious rumor: that the widow of the incumbent she beat four years ago plans to wage a Republican write-in campaign to unseat her.

Toledo's mayor did the sensible thing when he broke a tie vote on a non-binding resolution calling on Congress and the president to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

As small wind turbines started to dot the metro Toledo landscape outside schools, the zoo, and other public institutions, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur declared that she envisioned Northwest Ohio one day would become "the Saudi Arabia of wind." So what happened?!?

Lost among the week's headlines are the stern words of Toledo Police Chief Mike Navarre, who's vehemently opposed to a proposed racial profiling ordinance now before city council, which received an earful at a public hearing Tuesday on all things immigration-related.