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, July 21, 2006

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Newsmaker 1: Joan Mazzolini, reporter, The Plain Dealer: Mr. Feagler will talk with Joan about the report of a three-member panel sharply critical of the way the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections handled the introduction of electronic polling and vote-counting devices in the May, 2006 primary.

Newsmaker 2: Hilary Taylor, partner, Weston Hurd law firm and counsel to the city of Euclid. The U.S. Justice Department has sued Euclid under provisions of the Voting Rights Act accusing the city of maintaining a political structure that prevents the election of black candidates to City Council. The government says the city is nearly 40 per cent black; yet no Council member is black. The city denies engaging in the kind of discrimination the Voting Rights Act was designed to end.

Roundtable: Kevin O’Brien, editorial writer, the Plain Dealer; Mike Walker, executive director, Partnership for a Safer Cleveland; Richard Osborne, editor, Ohio Magazine.

Cast a Vote, Win a Prize: Arizona residents will decide this fall if they should adopt a unique method of encouraging people to vote. If a state initiative passes, one lucky winner would be selected from the rolls of those who voted in the general election. The prize: one million dollars. Backers say it’s a way to get more voters interested in politics. Critics say voters should go to the polls without a cash incentive.

Trouble in the Middle East: Israel continued attacks on Lebanon this week in an attempt to cripple the Hezbollah militia that controls much of south Lebanon. Attacks included an air raid on the headquarters of the Hezbollah leader in south Beirut. U-N leader Kofi Annan called for a cease fire; U.S. officials say they hope to help broker a long-term cease fire, but refused to pressure Israel to stop the shooting.

All the News That Fits: The New York Times is re-thinking the old slogan, “All the News Fit to Print.” The paper announced this week it’s going to reduce the physical size of the paper to reduce the cost of newsprint. That will reduce the volume of news that gets into the paper each day. It’s also shutting down a printing plant and laying off 250 workers. It’s the latest move in an industry retrenching in the face of declining revenues and electronic competition.

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