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, July 8, 2005

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Newsmaker: Rev. Robert Chase, communications director, United Church of Christ. Leaders of the Cleveland-based denomination approved a resolution at its national synod in Atlanta this week supporting the institution of gay marriage. UCC member churches are urged to follow suit, but the resolution is not binding. Church delegates also called on Israel to tear down its security wall on the West Bank, and for the use of “economic leverage” to help bring about a Palestinian state.

Roundtable panelists: Hilary Taylor, attorney; Patrick Shepherd, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats; Cindi-Deutschman-Ruiz, ideastream.

Gay Marriage: Our roundtable will continue the discussion of the resolution adopted at the United Church of Christ national synod endorsing same-sex marriage.

London Explosions: Three bombs on London subway trains and another on a city bus have killed at least 33 people and wounded hundreds more. Officials in the U.K. say the attacks appear to be the handiwork of al-Qaeda and look to be aimed at disrupting the G-8 summit in Scotland.

Nate Gray: A hung jury takes the government’s case against Cleveland businessman Nate Gray back to square one. The jury told the judge it failed to reach consensus on any of the 40-plus corruption charges against Gray, city councilman Joe Jones and one other man. So the judge declared a mistrial and told the lawyers to be prepared to try the case again in a few weeks.

Trapped in the Vast Wasteland: New studies out this week show that excessive TV-watching will turn your mind to mush. The studies claimed to show a correlation between heavy TV-watching and low achievement by students in post-secondary education and demonstrated that kids with TV’s in their bedroom fared worse in math and language than students without bedroom TV’s. Critics of such studies say they don’t differentiate between kids who watch PBS and those who spend all their time with MTV.

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