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 27, 2005

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Newsmaker: Tom Chema, president, Hiram. Thousands of young people matriculate from northeast Ohio’s institutions of higher learning every year, but a distressing number of them decide to move out of the state to seek their fortunes. There’s an effort underway to get them to stay. The Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education has a program called College 360 designed to attract more students to local schools, then to introduce them to the area’s lifestyle once they’re here. President Chema will explain how it works.

Roundtable panelists: David C. Barnett, ideastream; Mike Walker, Partnership for a Safer Cleveland

Steelyard Commons: The shopping center to be anchored by Wal-Mart is back on the front burner. Developer Mitchell Schneider has secured the permits he needs and is prepared to move ahead with building his project on vacant industrial land just south of downtown Cleveland. Wal-Mart, which withdrew from the project several weeks ago, has announced it’s back in.

Mayor’s Race: The field for the Cleveland Mayor’s race is getting more crowded. Former city council finance committee chair Bill Patmon joined the race this week, re-entering politics for the first time since losing his re-election bid in 2002. Patmon’s bid brings to five the number of candidates seeking the job. Those include the incumbent, Jane Campbell.

Nuclear Option Fizzles: Senate Republicans and Democrats found a way to meet in the middle and hammered out a compromise that avoids a parliamentary battle over President Bush’s judicial nominees. Democrats agree to a straight up and down vote on some federal court nominees and they agreed not to filibuster future nominees under all but “extraordinary” circumstances.

Newsmaker 2: Martin Zanotti, Mayor, Parma Heights. Cuyahoga County’s suburban mayors have agreed that one way to cut costs is not to duplicate services that a neighboring city is already supplying. They’ve agreed to explore ways to end some of the balkanization that’s historically characterized suburban politics in the interest of greater efficiency.

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