Amid a continuing surge in grassroots activism, 2025 was a year of uplifting successes, unimaginable losses, and transformative events.
The discovery in January that several hundred properties in Lucas County had received inflated revaluations would lead to thousands of appeals to the Board of Revision and the subsequent refund of more than $4 million to property owners who had paid taxes on land that had been overvalued.
In the spring, thousands mourned the disappearance and horrific murder of Kei’mani Latigue. The 13-year-old was just one of a series of tragic deaths in Toledo, as the city’s murder rate tallied numbers nearly identical with the prior year…