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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.

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Friday, September 4, 2009

Topics: Politics
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Host: ideastream’s Dan Moulthrop

Guests: Harriet Applegate, executive secretary, North Coast Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) and organizer of Real Reform Done Right; Steven Kaufman, attorney, co-chair of New Cuyahoga Now.

Cuyahoga County voters face a potentially bewildering array of county issues and candidates in the election of November 3rd, 2009. Dueling county government re-organization issues will appear on the ballot along with competing slates of candidates, at least 30 of them, for a proposed charter review panel.

One issue is a proposed county charter replacing the Board of County Commissioners with an elected county executive and an eleven-member county council, elected by districts. Several currently elected officers would be appointed by the executive. A second issue would set up a 15-member review panel to research and write a different blueprint for county government. Organizers on both sides of the reform effort are offering their own slates of candidates for the review panel.

The order in which the reorganization issues will appear on the ballot is not clear yet and may require a ruling from the Secretary of State. It’s also possible that both could be approved by voters, setting the stage for further controversy.

Our discussion will lay the groundwork for greater understanding of the reorganization issue as proposed and the misgivings of those who think the idea needs further study.

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