Emmy Award-winning Feagler & Friends is a lively, weekly half-hour television discussion of local and national issues impacting lives in Northeast Ohio. Hosted by award-winning journalist and former Plain Dealer columnist, Dick Feagler, Feagler & Friends explores the various issues behind today's news. With a changing ensemble of "friends" ranging from journalists to community and political leaders, Feagler & Friends takes on issues from many different perspectives. Always entertaining and never boring, Feagler & Friends is the program for people "in the know" in Northeast Ohio.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Topics: Arts, Politics, Other
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Special Guest: NewsChannel 5 anchor Leon Bibb. Longtime friends, Mr. Feagler and Mr. Bibb recently visited the Cleveland Museum of Natural History exhibit titled, “Race, Are We So Different?” The exhibit addresses many of the same issues the two veteran journalists explored in a 1987 series when they shared the newsroom at WKYC. They’ll discuss what, if anything, has changed with the passage of two decades.

Roundtable: Elizabeth Sullivan, foreign affairs writer, The Plain Dealer; Greg Saber, reporter, WTAM 1100; Richard Osborne, editor, Ohio Magazine.

Open Discovery: Cuyahoga County judges thought they had settled a simmering dispute over the handling of evidence in criminal cases when they ordered prosecutors to turn over everything they have to defense lawyers. But county prosecutor Bill Mason says he doesn’t intend to obey the order. Mason believes the order to be unconstitutional and potentially dangerous to victims and witnesses.

Parking Lots: Cleveland city leaders are mulling the possibility of ordering downtown parking lot owners to keep attendants on duty or install surveillance cameras at lots frequently used by drivers attending downtown events. Many lots have attendants who take money from drivers, but leave as soon as the lots fill. Thieves then target some lots for break-ins. Lot owners say mandating full time attendants would force them to raise rates.

Obama Cabinet: The President-elect’s cabinet choices are gradually being revealed. Tom Daschle is the choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services; Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to head Homeland Security; Eric Holder as Attorney General. Perhaps no choice will be as controversial as the possible appointment of Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Clinton hasn’t decided if she’ll take the job, but is cooperating with the vetting process and deciding if she can give up the independence of a Senate seat to serve a man she opposed in the primary.

Beginning of the End? The Christian Science Monitor has announced it will cease print publication and appear only on-line. The Monitor is not a typical newspaper: it publishes Monday through Friday and is delivered by mail. But the demise of its hard copy is seen as the harbinger of things to come for daily newspapers, which have lost readers and revenue to competing media.

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