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 14, 2005

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Newsmaker 1: Tamera Brown, just named to coordinate the Convention and Visitors Bureau’s arts tourism efforts. Cleveland is trying to capitalize on its arts and culture assets and hired Brown, currently director of Audience Development for the Western Reserve Historical Society, to promote arts tourism in Cleveland.

Newsmaker 2: Deborah Paris, child psychoanalyst, Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development. The tsunami disaster in South Asia has brought a constant flow of disturbing images into America’s living rooms, leaving parents with the sometimes sticky problem of explaining all this to their young impressionable children. We’ll get some tips on how to do it.

Roundtable: Patrick Shepherd, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats; Janet Babin, ideastream; Mike Roberts, freelance journalist.

Ray Refuses to Run: He gave Jane Campbell a run for her money four years ago, but Raymond Pierce says he’s decided not to run for Mayor this time. He said this week he’s not prepared to make the commitment of time it would take to run.

CBS Black Eye: An independent investigation concluded this week that CBS news had failed to let the facts get in the way of a good story. The investigation said CBS did a poor job of checking facts before it went on the air with a story critical of George W. Bush’s time in the Air National Guard. When the harrumphing from network brass died down one producer was fired, three others were asked to resign.

State Park Fees: The honeymoon is over for fans of Ohio’s state parks. Later this year, the state is expected to start charging motorists five dollars to park at a state park. The state says it needs the money to pay for the parks’ upkeep. Most other states already charge a fee for using state parks.

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