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, April 8, 2005

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Newsmaker: Angelina Whalley, director of the Institute for Plastination. She and husband Gunther von Hagens are the brains behind the Body Worlds 2 exhibit that’s coming to the Great Lakes Science Center April 9 through September 18. The exhibit of permanently-preserved artfully-posed cadavers has been drawing big crowds all over the world and it’s expected to be a similar draw here.

Roundtable panelists: Connie Schultz, Plain Dealer columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner; David Levey, business writer; ideastream’s Bill Rice.

School Money Stewardship: Local school officials come in for more scrutiny and less scrutiny. The Plain Dealer reports top Cleveland school administrators rake in car allowances worth hundreds of dollars in a time when the school district is cutting back its transportation budget. Meanwhile, the Bond Accountability Commission was appointed a few years ago to make sure hundreds of millions of dollars for school reconstruction projects was spent wisely. Now, that Commission has been disbanded and officials have been mum on who’s watching the pot.

Head Start Excesses: Head Start leaders are under fire for awarding themselves huge salaries and junketeering with money meant to foster the development of the poorest children. Congress is looking into excesses in Cleveland and in other cities around the country.

Late to Work: Now there’s a legitimate excuse besides your own funeral for being late to work. The local Convention and Visitors Bureau is working out a deal with some local employers to let their workers report two hours late to work the next morning if they’ve attended selected local events the night before.

And, of course Mr. Feagler will talk with Connie Schultz about her new life as a Pulitzer laureate.

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