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 6, 2009

Topics: Politics, Other
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Newsmakers: Zack Reed, Cleveland City Councilman; Martin Flask, Cleveland Director of Public Safety; Matt Carroll, director, Cleveland Department of Public Health.

Roundtable: Mark Naymik, politics reporter, The Plain Dealer; Mike Tobin, assistant metro editor, The Plain Dealer; Harry Boomer, 19 Action News.

Horror in Mt. Pleasant: World attention has been focused this week on a duplex near the corner of East 123rd and Imperial Avenue in Cleveland where police have found the bodies of eleven women in various stages of decomposition, most of them strangled. The occupant of the house, 50-year-old Anthony Sowell, is in the Cuyahoga County jail charged with five counts of aggravated murder. More charges are likely. Police resumed a thorough search of the house and yard today looking for evidence and possibly more victims. As the shock of the case sets in, neighbors criticize authorities for failing to follow up their complaints about foul odors from the property. 2nd Ward councilman Zack Reed has called for an investigation.

2009 Election: Voters have called for a sea change in the way Cuyahoga County runs its government affairs. By a wide margin, the voters approved Issue 6, a new county charter that mandates an elected County Executive and County Council. The Board of County Commissioners would be eliminated along with most elective offices. Voters will seat the new government at next November’s election. Statewide, voters endorsed casino gambling after rejecting it four times since 1990. Casinos will go up soon in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo. Now that the voters have spoken, Mr. Feagler and his guests will talk about what happens next.

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