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 18, 2005

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Newsmaker: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Last month, a team led by Haile-Selassie and his Cleveland colleague Bruce Latimer discovered the four million-year-old remains of an early human ancestor in Ethiopia. It’s not the oldest set of pre-human remains ever found, but the discovery is expected to shed more light on the dawn of man.

Roundtable Panel: Elizabeth Sullivan, Plain Dealer foreign affairs writer; Joan Mazzolini, Plain Dealer reporter; Amir Soas, president of the Harmony Foundation.

Police Chief Retires: Ed Lohn, who’s helmed the Cleveland police department for three years, is retiring. Mayor Campbell says it was a mutual decision for Lohn to take his 50-and-out. Lohn’s stewardship came under scrutiny in a recent investigation of police overtime abuses.

Shrinking Tax Base: Land where you park cars shouldn’t be taxed at the same rate as land that holds a 40-story building. That’s the kind of painful logic that’s hurting the Cleveland schools and the government services that depend on property taxes for support. A number of Cleveland businesses have sought and received lower tax assessments based on the declining market value of their land.

Middle East Week: Iraq’s national assembly met for its first formal session. The first democratic assembly in 50 years did little more than take the oath of office and announce plans to meet again in the future. In Lebanon, Syrian troops continued their pull back amid continuing demonstrations asking them to leave.

Can’t Get No Satisfaction: A new class of rock stars was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week. Groups such as U-2 and the O’Jays were enshrined. But while the rock stars got the elevator, Cleveland, as usual got the shaft. The ceremony was held in New York City.

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