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, May 6, 2005

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Newsmaker: Peter Bastulli, finance chair of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga Convention Facilities Authority. The CFA breathed new life into possible downtown Cleveland exhibition space this week when it released a new Price Waterhouse report showing a strong potential for economic impact if the city upgrades its current outmoded facilities.

Roundtable panelists: Richard DeKaser, chief economist, National City Bank; Cindi Deutschman-Ruiz, ideastream; Mike Roberts, freelance journalist.

Red Light Cameras: Cleveland city council approves installment of cameras and electronic devices at key intersections to bag drivers who regard red lights as mere suggestions. At some, the cameras will be used to nab speeders. Still more will be mobile—placed in cars so they can be moved around. While drivers see red, the city will see lots of green in the millions of dollars it’ll reap in fines.

Head Start: City and county leaders say heads should roll at Head Start. They’re calling for the ouster of the local agency’s executive director and a thorough review of apparent lavish spending by the director and others on her staff. The director has already taken a sizeable pay cut.

Fed Sticks Pin in Inflation Balloon: The Federal Reserve Board raised a key interest rate to three per cent, the latest in a recent series of up ticks. It’s a move interpreted as showing the Fed more concerned about inflation than about possible downward pressure on economic growth.

Suspected Terrorist Nabbed: Pakistan announced the capture of key al-Qaeda lieutenant Abu Faraj al-Libbi. President Bush called the arrest an important win in the war on terror. Some counter-terrorism experts think Libbi might help lead authorities to Osama bin Laden.

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