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, September 1, 2006

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Newsmaker: Seth Rosen, vice-president, Communications Workers of America District 4. With Labor Day approaching, we take a look at the state of organized labor through the eyes of a labor leader who speaks for 90,000 workers in Ohio and four other states. It’s no secret that there’s trouble in the house of labor with union membership continuing to decline and talk of further schism in giant AFL-CIO. Labor faces the dual challenge of organizing new workplaces and finding ways to slow the offshore migration of blue collar jobs.

Roundtable: Ned Whelan, Whelan Communications; Sam Fulwood III, columnist, The Plain Dealer; Richard Osborne, editor, Ohio Magazine.

Cleveland is Poorest City: New figures from the Census Bureau show Cleveland has regained its dubious status as the nation’s deepest poverty pocket. The government says roughly one-third of Clevelanders have incomes below the federal poverty line. When the city first attained that rank in 2004, city leaders held a round of poverty summits. Mayor Frank Jackson eschewed a new round of meetings, saying the solutions to the problem are already known.

Governor’s Race-New Endorsements: A group of conservative ministers threw its support behind Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell. The ministers rejected criticism that they’re using their pulpits to push the candidacy of a religious conservative, saying it’s ethically right to do what’s right for Ohio.

California Emissions: The state of California has agreed to impose the nation’s toughest curbs on emissions of the types of gases implicated in global warming. California would curb greenhouse gas emissions 25% within 14 years, achieving the goal by tighter controls on power plants and other heavy industrial users of carbon-based fuels. Critics of the move say the new limits will lead to electricity shortages and higher prices.

Fauxtography: CBS News is taking heat over a photograph of evening news anchor Katie Couric that appeared in the network’s publicity magazine, Watch. The photograph was doctored to make Couric appear to be 20 pounds lighter. CBS calls the photograph a mistake that won’t be repeated. The flap over the Couric picture reminds critics of a recent controversy over doctored news pictures appearing in other media from the fighting in Lebanon.

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