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, August 5, 2005

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Newsmaker: Congressman Sherrod Brown (D-13, Ohio). While the U.S. House of Representatives takes its summer break, we’ll catch up on doings inside the Capitol with a democratic member of the northeast Ohio delegation. We’ll talk to him about the benefits the new transportation bill will bring to greater Cleveland, about the narrow approval of CAFTA, and get this thinking about what’ll be on the agenda when Congress returns to work.

Roundtable panelists: John Farina, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats; ideastream’s Cindi Deutschman-Ruiz; Amir Soas, president, Harmony Foundation.

The Agony of Defeat: Voters rejected the Cleveland school levy by a margin of 65 to 35 per cent. That was apparently the last straw for schools CEO Barbara-Byrd Bennett who announced on Friday that she’s stepping down when her contract expires next month. Byrd-Bennett says she’ll stay on for up to a year while her replacement is sought. Previously steady gains in academic achievement have been eroded by deep budget cuts.

Setback in Iraq: Insurgent actions in Iraq hit close to home for northeast Ohioans this week. Two separate incidents took the lives of 20 Marines based in Brook Park. President Bush says the insurgents have failed to shake American resolve to solidify to foothold of democracy in Iraq. Local leaders are preparing a memorial observance for the slain troops.

Hiroshima 60 Years Later: Saturday marks 60 years since one airplane carrying one bomb leveled the city of Hiroshima. The bombing turned out to be one of the final acts of World War II, helping to bring about the capitulation of the Japanese to the Allies a few days later. Debate still rages over whether the bombing was necessary to bring about the end of the war.

Slow Boat to Canada: A proposed Cleveland-to-Canada ferry appears to be a lot closer to setting sail. Money from the recently-approved federal transportation bill would be used to build a ferry terminal on the Cleveland end of the route. The ferry idea has been floating around for years, but previously took on bureaucratic water and sank.

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