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 15, 2005

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Roundtable panelists: Regina Brett, Plain Dealer columnist; Deborah Burstion-Donbraye, GOP political consultant; Madeline Cain of Cleveland State University

School Violence: What’s more dangerous, a city street in Baghdad or the hallway of any Cleveland high school? Several students were suspended this week at South High after a fight that felled an assistant principal. A series of recent newspaper columns have shown Cleveland schools to be less an oasis of learning than a chaotic reflection of the mean streets that surround them.

Social Security Reform: President Bush came to Lakeland Community College this week where he spoke to an invitation-only audience about his call to revamp social security. He wants to fix it by letting taxpayers put part of their withholding into a private account. Opponents say it’s a solution aimed at a non-existent problem.

John Bolton Nomination: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee spent the week grilling President Bush’s nominee to be United Nations ambassador. The committee put off a confirmation vote until next week.

Santo Subito? Or sainthood now? With his death, the late Pope John Paul II is riding a wave of popularity. There are those among his supporters who want the church to set aside tradition and canonize him immediately. Perhaps you heard the chants during the funeral. Church leaders counsel caution, saying sainthood isn’t something to be rushed.

Charity Gambling: The Cuyahoga County Commissioners vote to allow charity card games at a special tent the Jacobs Group will be setting up in the Flats.

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