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 17, 2005

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Roundtable panelists: Erick Trickey, Associate Editor, Cleveland Magazine; John Farina, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats; Mike Roberts, freelance journalist.

Nate Gray Trial: Cleveland businessman Nate Gray, Cleveland city councilman Joe Jones and one other man went on trial in Cleveland federal court this week on corruption charges. Federal prosecutors claim business deals between contractors and city officials were lubricated with cash bribes and they accuse Gray of being the facilitator.

Luck Be a Lady Tonight: It’s the closest thing Cleveland has ever had to a gambling casino. Starting this week, people who like risking their cash on the popular card game Texas Hold-‘Em can play for money at a special pavilion set up in the Flats. Profits will go to charity and the games are expected to bring hundreds of players to the moribund entertainment district.

Iraq Support Slips: New polls out this week show fewer Americans favorably inclined to keeping US military forces in Iraq, plus stronger sentiment for beginning a pull-out as soon as possible.

Terri Schiavo: Autopsy results out this week show there was no chance that Terri Schiavo would ever have recovered from her persistent vegetative state. The result backed what Schiavo’s husband had been claiming and contradicted the views of her parents, who’d fought to keep her alive.

Special Guest: Michael Heaton, Plain Dealer columnist. Jury in Santa Maria, California found Michael Jackson not guilty on charges of child molesting. A guilty verdict could have landed the King of Pop in prison for up to 20 years. The trial was one of the most sensational court cases since OJ Simpson was tried for murder 10 years ago. And it was closely-watched, Heaton wrote, because of what Jackson means to the American cultural scene. He’ll discuss that with Feagler.

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