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 29, 2007

Topics: Health, Other
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Newsmaker: Cathleen Alexander, executive director, Domestic Violence Center, an organization that serves battered women in greater Cleveland. The killing of Jessie Davis, 26, of North Canton raises new questions about risky relationships. Davis’s boyfriend, Bobby Cutts, Jr., is accused in the murder of Davis, a single mother pregnant with a second child allegedly fathered by Cutts. Mr. Feagler will talk with Ms Alexander about what sometimes attracts women to potentially-abusive boyfriends and how to recognize signs that a relationship might turn violent.

Roundtable: Elizabeth Sullivan, foreign affairs writer, The Plain Dealer; James Ewinger, reporter, The Plain Dealer; Kevin O’Brien, editorial writer, The Plain Dealer.

Davis Murder: The roundtable will discuss the Davis killing, which continues to attract nationwide attention.

Where Have All the People Gone? The U.S. Census Bureau reports Cleveland’s population has dropped to 444,000. Once the nation’s fifth-largest city, Cleveland now ranks 40th and there’s no sign the downward trend is leveling off. Some are moving from the city to the suburbs, others are leaving for other states.

Iraq Split: Republican support for the war in Iraq eroded this week with Ohio Senator George Voinovich and Indiana Senator Richard Lugar expressing reservations about continuing U.S. involvement there. Voinovich, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, says the U.S. can accomplish more through gradual disengagement and fostering increased international involvement in Iraq. Lugar says the costs and risks associated with Iraq outweigh the benefits to the U.S.

No Smoking: The Cleveland Clinic is taking its no-smoking policy a step further. The Clinic announced this week it will no longer hire staffers who smoke or use tobacco in any form. It joins a growing list of companies implementing non-smoking policies to cut health care costs and improve the health of staffers. Critics say such policies infringe on the rights of workers.

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