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 30, 2006

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Roundtable: Freelance Journalist Mike Roberts; Stan Bullard, Crain’s Cleveland Business; Ned Whelan, Whelan Communications.

Honda’s Choice: The Honda Motor Corp. has chosen Greensburg, Indiana, a farming community 60 miles west of Cincinnati, as the site of its new North American manufacturing plant. The plant will open in 2008 and produce 200-thousand vehicles per year, including a fuel-efficient four-cylinder car. Indiana beat out sites in Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. But state officials say Ohio will still benefit by supplying parts to the Indiana plant.

Times Under Fire: Critics, including President Bush, are blasting the New York Times for revealing the government’s method of tracking terrorists through their financial dealings. Similar reports were carried in the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. Critics called the reports irresponsible. The newspapers say the public interest outweighed the potential damage to counterterrorism efforts.

Voter Registration Rules: Secretary of State Blackwell’s office is making individuals more responsible for the process of signing up people to vote. Individuals, not organizations, will have to make sure registration forms reach local elections boards. And individuals can be held responsible for potential fraud. Advocates for organizations that typically sign up voters say the new rules will have a chilling effect on registration efforts.

Flag Burning Amendment: The U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a proposed 28th amendment to the Constitution that would have given Congress the power to punish desecration of the Stars and Stripes. The 66 to 34 vote fell one vote shy of the two-thirds majority that would have sent the amendment to the states for ratification.

Obesity Study: It’s no secret that Americans are overweight. But a study out this week sheds some new light on why so many have bulked up. The International Journal of Obesity’s top ten list includes: people quitting appetite-suppressing cigarettes, lack of proper rest and the increasing number of older women giving birth. The study says children born to older women tend to be heavier.

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