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 22, 2005

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Roundtable panelists: Mike Tobin, reporter, The Plain Dealer; Mike Roberts, freelance journalist; David C. Barnett, ideastream.

Ex-Mayor Implicated: The federal probe that resulted in the indictment of Cleveland businessman Nate Gray was actually targeted at former Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White and others listed in federal court documents. As reported this week by the Plain Dealer and Scene, the tabloid weekly, the documents implicated Gray in distributing bribes to public officials and pointed the finger at White as one of the recipients.

Pilla Grilled: Cleveland Catholic bishop Anthony Pilla gave a long deposition this week in a libel suit a former local family filed against the diocese. The suit is connected to the church’s handling of sexual abuse allegations against a parish priest. Pilla is not named in the suit, but his testimony in the case focuses new attention on a scandal that’s rocked the U.S. Catholic church to its foundations.

London Bombings: A series of explosions rattled the London transport system exactly two week after terrorist bombs killed 56 people and injured hundreds of others. These explosions were not as powerful and authorities aren’t clear yet what might have motivated the people who set them. But police say evidence left at one of the bombing scenes could lead to a break in the case.

Westmoreland Dies: Retired General William Westmoreland reached the military’s highest ranks, but he’ll be remembered most for his failure to win the war in Vietnam. He commanded U.S. troops there from 1964 to 1968. And he spent the later years of his life extolling Vietnam-era troops for their courage and sacrifice. Westmoreland’s mixed legacy was the subject of renewed focus this week with news of his death at the age of 91.

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