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, March 23, 2007

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Roundtable: Tom Feran, columnist, The Plain Dealer; Mark Naymik, politics reporter, The Plain Dealer; Ned Whelan, Whelan Communications.

Showdown at the Elections Board: Ohio’s Secretary of State is calling for the resignations of all four members of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. Jennifer Brunner thinks a clean slate at the board will help clean up problems that have marred local vote-counting in recent elections. So far, only Democrat Edward Coaxum has heeded the call; the others are staying put. Brunner threatens to fire those who don’t quit. The dispute is expected to end up in court.

Execution Delayed: The United States Supreme Court stepped in to stop the planned execution of convicted Ohio killer Kenneth Biros. The high court called a halt to the lethal injection because Biros is party to a suit claiming lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. That case is moving through the appeals process.Biros’s execution would have been the first under Ohio’s new governor, Ted Strickland.

Iraq War Anniversary: More than 3,200 American military personnel have died since the start of the Iraq war four years ago this week. Both the House and Senate are preparing for showdown votes that would allocate money and establish time frames for withdrawal of American troops. Both houses are sharply divided along party lines and President Bush promises to veto any withdrawal plan that reaches his desk.

Virtual Cleveland: You won’t have to travel far to walk the streets of a futuristic Cleveland. It exists now in cyber-space. Those with access to something called Cleveland 2.0 can help build a three-dimensional graphic city in which to live out their dreams. Cleveland 2.0 is a product of the computer brain trust at Case Western Reserve University.

The Smoking Lamp is Lit: It might be okay again for Ohio veterans to smoke cigarettes in their meeting halls. Veterans of Foreign Wars challenged Ohio’s smoking ban for public places, saying an exception should be made for private clubs. State health officials appear to agree, saying they’ll allow smoking in clubs, provided those employed at the clubs are also members.

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