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, June 5, 2009

Topics: Economy, Politics, Other
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A special edition of Feagler & Friends

Chris Ronayne, president, University Circle, Inc.; Brent Larkin, former editorial page director, The Plain Dealer; Jay Westbrook, Cleveland City Council member.

What Have We Done Right and Wrong and What Should We Do Better? Cleveland and the region can point to a number of solid civic accomplishments over the years including investing hundreds of millions of dollars to revamp outdated Cleveland schools, building stadiums and an arena to retain major league sports and bringing the once-burning river back to life. Still, the region’s economy continues to decline, and the population shrinks as people leave for opportunity elsewhere. Our panel of local thinkers will ponder on how we can correct the mistakes of the past and how we can better capitalize on the things we’ve done right and make Cleveland a real comeback city.

John J. Gill, attorney—when retired Seven Hills auto worker John Demjanjuk was first accused nearly 30 years ago of working in a Nazi death camp, he hired Cleveland attorney John J. Gill as part of his defense team. They eventually were able to convince the Israeli court system that Demjanjuk was not a notorious guard at Treblinka known as Ivan the Terrible. But suspicion continued, and now Demjanjuk is in German custody awaiting trial over accusations he assisted in the death of 29,000 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Gill asserts the evidence against Demjanjuk is flimsy.

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