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, May 26, 2006

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Newsmaker: Dennis Roche, president, Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland. Last time the national Republican Party met for its presidential nominating convention it was 1936 and the party launched the Alf Landon Bandwagon. Now, Cleveland boosters are hoping the GOP might be up for a return engagement. Local officials have made their pitch to the Republican National Committee and are waiting to see if the party will pick Cleveland over such contenders as New York and Minneapolis..

Roundtable: Mark Naymik, politics reporter, the Plain Dealer; Harry Boomer, reporter, 19 Action News; Hilary Taylor, attorney..

Schools new CEO: The Cleveland Board of Education made it official this week, hammering out final details of a contract with new CEO Eugene Sanders, the former superintendent of Toledo schools. Sanders will take on a school district that faces daunting academic challenges and must exist in a neighborhood atmosphere that’s often not conducive to learning..

Spending Limitations: Ohio lawmakers have decided they need spending limits to go with their term limits. This week, they passed a law saying the state budget can’t rise more than three-and-a-half per cent per year (or by a percentage based on the rate of inflation and population change). The new law contains some of the same restrictions found in the so-called TEL amendment that’s being removed from the fall ballot..

Cavs Want a Tax Break: When the Cavaliers build their new practice facility in Independence they want an assist from taxpayers. They’ve asked to borrow the cost of the building from the Port Authority and they want to pay off the loan with money they would have paid out in property taxes.

VA Information Loss: Thanks to a breach of work rules by a longtime Veterans Administration employee and the actions of thieves, someone now has the names, social security numbers and other sensitive information on millions of U.S. military veterans discharged since 1975. The VA says the employee took the information home without authorization and the computer disks that contained it were stolen in a break-in. What’s not clear is whether the thieves have made any use of the information.

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