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, March 4, 2005

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Newsmaker: Joe Cimperman, Cleveland City Councilman; Mitchell Schneider, president First Interstate Properties Ltd. Wal-Mart says it wants no part of the new Steelyard Commons shopping center. Local developer, Mitchell Schneider wants to build it on part of what used to be the sprawling LTV Steel complex. Wal-Mart says it was purely a business decision and had nothing to do with Councilman Cimperman’s proposal to limit the scope of big-box stores in Cleveland. But some, like Schneider, think the Cimperman law scared off Wal-Mart.

Roundtable Panel: Cindi Deutschman-Ruiz, ideastream; Deborah Burstion-Donbraye, GOP activist; business writer David Levey.

Libertarians Rip Taft: The Cato Institute says Ohio’s Bob Taft is the worst governor in the country, based mainly on his fiscal performance. The only bit of good news, says Cato, is that this is Taft’s second and final term.

Supreme Court—Ten Commandments: The Supreme Court heard arguments this week on whether it’s constitutional to display the Ten Commandments in public places. It’s argued the Commandments provide the foundation for U.S. law. But critics say displays of the Commandments in government-owned facilities breaches the wall of separation between church and state.

Supreme Court—Capital Punishment: The high court in a 5 to 4 decision this week ruled states may not execute people under the age of 18 even though they’ve committed adult crimes. The ruling spares dozens of death row convicts, changing their sentences to life in prison

Private Ryan, Et Al: The FCC ruled this week that the movie “Saving Private Ryan” is potentially offensive, but not indecent. The ruling comes too late for millions of ABC network affiliates refused to show it for fear of running afoul of the FCC’s indecency rules. Meanwhile, some members of Congress are suggesting that the FCC’s power to rule on content to extend to cable and satellite TV.

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