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, June 3, 2005

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Newsmaker: Alan Feuer, New York Times. His book “Over There: From the Bronx to Baghdad” chronicles the time he spent in Iraq writing about the war and its aftermath. He’ll talk to Dick about his experiences and the current state of affairs in Iraq.

Roundtable panelists: Patrick Shepherd of the Cleveland Stonewall Democrats; Deborah Burstion-Donbraye, GOP political consultant; Cindi Deutschman-Ruiz, ideastream.

Deep Throat Revealed: After three decades, we finally found out this week the identity of “Deep Throat,” the secret source who helped Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein unearth the Watergate scandal. For most Americans, it was somebody they’d never heard of: former FBI second-in-command W. Mark Felt.

Non, Neen, NO! In any language, the meaning is pretty clear. Europeans are unwilling, as yet, to accept full membership in the European Union. Voters in France and the Netherlands both turned down a proposed E-U constitution. Since all 25 member nations must ratify for it to be effective, the constitution would appear to be headed back to the drawing board.

Cleveland is Just All Right With Me: The New York Times sends a writer to spend a weekend in Cleveland and he not only survives, but he finds plenty to like about the city. He likes the architecture, the activities, the ambiance. Now, if we can get him to come back and bring a few thousand friends…..

Prison Religion: The U.S. Supreme Court rules Ohio prisons have to accommodate the wishes of convicts who want to practice offbeat religions behind bars, even if those practices push things like white supremacy and Satanism. The high court rejected the prisons’ plea that religious practices might undermine security.

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