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, February 25, 2005

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Newsmaker: Marie Smith, president, national AARP. The AARP sided with President Bush on Medicare prescription drug benefits, but not on his call to privatize a part of the Social Security program. AARP sees private social security accounts as a step to dismantling the Roosevelt-era program. And it’s mounted a public campaign to defeat privatization.

Roundtable Panel: Sandra Clark, editor, City News; Joan Mazzolini, reporter, The Plain Dealer; John Farina, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats.

E-Check Here to Stay: Bad news and good news for car owners who hate the e-check, and that’s just about all of them. The state EPA says the bi-annual e-check will remain for the foreseeable future. The air in northeast Ohio stubbornly refuses to get clean enough to meet federal standards. However, thousands of newer cars will be exempt from the test.

Solon’s Deer Kill: City-hired sharp shooters are killing off excess deer in the city of Solon, where residents complained about the forest critters eating their landscaping and snarling traffic. But humans declaring themselves friends of the deer protested loudly and hired a high-profile local attorney to fight the sharpshooters.

President Bush in Europe: President Bush has spent much of the week in Europe meeting with some friends there, some of whom were disaffected by the US-led war in Iraq. Although the two sides did not agree on Iraq, Bush was able to secure agreement from some of the European powers to dissuade Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Wrong-Way Westlake: School officials in Westlake learned the hard way this week why they call it “snail-mail.” The school board approved a tax issue for the spring ballot then mailed the paperwork to the Board of Elections. It took four days to get there and by the time it arrived, the filing deadline had passed.

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