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 30, 2009

Topics: Education, Politics
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Newsmaker 1: Gary Norton, mayor-to-be, East Cleveland—The city’s president of council knocked off incumbent Mayor Eric Brewer in the September primary and is unopposed in the upcoming general election. Norton assumes the Mayor’s job in a city that’s suffered chronic money woes and has been forced to downsize its safety forces. East Cleveland also seen its share of city hall scandal. One previous mayor is in prison for accepting bribes; the incumbent was the subject of excruciatingly embarrassing photographs.

Roundtable—Mike Roberts, freelance journalist; Keith Reed, editor, Catalyst Ohio; Ned Whelan, Whelan Communications.

Issues and Candidates: In this last edition of Feagler & Friends before the election the roundtable will focus on the candidate races and issues expected to generate the most interest at the polls on November 3rd.

--Cleveland Mayor’s race: incumbent Frank Jackson is seeking a second term against former three-term city council member Bill Patmon. Jackson was an easy winner in the September primary. Patmon has been able to raise little money.

--Cuyahoga Issues 5 and 6: One issue would remake the county’s executive branch, replacing the Board of Commissioners with an elected County Executive and an elected county council. The other would leave it up to a county charter commission to come up with a new form of government.

--State Issue 3: Clears the way for casino gambling in the state after voters rejected the idea four times previously. One of the casinos would be built in downtown Cleveland.

Newsmaker 2: Jerry Sue Thornton, president, Cuyahoga Community College—These are halcyon days for Ohio’s institutions of higher learning. Thousands of Ohioans are taking advantage of an economic lull to advance their educations. Colleges are the main beneficiary and Tri-C is riding the wave. A record 30,000-plus students are enrolled at Tri-C, a student body that is 16% larger than last fall. Mr. Feagler will talk with Dr. Thornton about how the college is coping with unprecedented demand, what the students have enrolled to study and the push for passage of Issue 4, a 1.9-mill tax levy that would support Tri-C.

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