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, January 7, 2005

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Newsmaker: Barbara A. Reynolds, president, Realty One Real Living. She joins Feagler to talk about her company’s plan to move its corporate headquarters from Independence to the Warehouse District in downtown Cleveland. With the move will come 200+ employees.

Roundtable: Cindi Deutschman-Ruiz, ideastream; Bill Livingston, sports columnist of the Plain Dealer, David Levey, business writer.

School Cuts: The Cleveland school board gave its okay this week to a plan for deep cuts to make up for a $25 million deficit. More than a dozen schools would close, extra-curricular activities like sports would disappear and schools might even go to a four-day week to save money. The drastic budget-cutting comes in the wake of a November levy defeat.

Cavs Sold: If the NBA approves the Cavs will soon have a new owner. Dot-com boomer Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans, made Gordon Gund an offer he couldn’t refuse, guaranteeing that the Cavs would stay in Cleveland and that Gund would stay on as a minority owner. For Gund, it was a logical time to sell a franchise that’s suddenly among the league’s hottest.

Fixing Social Security: President Bush says the long-term stability of social security is going to be a front-burner issue for his next term. He wants to let younger participants put part of their money into privately-held accounts. While Bush sees a looming crisis, others say Social Security will remain solvent for decades to come.

Super-sizing Parking Spaces: Cities across the country are widening their parking spaces to accommodate the broader beams of the SUV - acknowledging you can’t fit a Hummer in a space designed for a Hyundai.

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