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, October 9, 2009

Topics: Politics, Other
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Newsmaker—Thomas Kelly, director, Citizens Reform Association of Cuyahoga County—The local citizen watchdog group has put together a slate of candidates for a 15-member Cuyahoga County Charter Commission. The commission will be created if voters approve Issue 5 on November 3rd. It’s possible voters will approve competing Issue 6, which mandates a county executive/council form of government. It’s also possible voters might approve or reject both. Kelly will tell us why he assembled his own slate of candidates and why he’s on it.

Roundtable—Greg Saber, freelance journalist; Richard Osborne, editor, Ohio Magazine; Erick Trickey, senior editor, Cleveland Magazine.

Issues 5 and 6—The Cuyahoga County government restructuring campaigns picked up steam this week with an endorsement of Issue 6 by Senator George Voinovich. The Cleveland Area Board of Realtors added its endorsement. Issue 5 backers demanded that county prosecutor Bill Mason return campaign donations from employees. Mason responded with a statement challenging elected officials among the Issue 5 backers to do the same.

Execution Moratorium—The state of Ohio has for the time being delayed executions of death row inmates following a botched lethal injection attempt last month. Among the executions halted was that of Lawrence Reynolds of Akron who was to have died October 8th. State officials say they’ll take time for a thorough review of procedures, possibly even a change of drugs used for lethal injection.

Not a Bright Idea—State regulators have for now short-circuited a plan by Akron-based FirstEnergy to distribute compact fluorescent light bulbs to customers. FirstEnergy planned to pass out the energy-saving bulbs door-to-door starting next week, but a loud public outcry changed that. Unhappy customers objected to the $21 price tag for two bulbs. FirstEnergy says the $21 included a charge for electricity the utility would not sell because the bulbs use so much less energy.

Nobel Sur-prize—The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Barack Obama. The committee says Obama will receive the prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Obama is the third sitting American president to win the Peace Prize. Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919) were previous winners. Jimmy Carter received the prize in 2002.

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