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 12, 2005

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Newsmaker: Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts): He’s in town to speak to the City Club. Frank is the first openly-gay member of Congress but was outspoken on gay rights long before he came “out.” He’s represented his Congressional district since 1981. He recently sponsored legislation allowing unmarried federal employees to apply for benefits for their domestic partners.

Roundtable panelists: Chris Sheridan, editorial writer, the Plain Dealer; attorney Hilary Taylor; ideastream’s Bill Rice.

Marines Remembered: Thousands gathered at the I-X Center this week to honor the memory of U.S. Marines and other military personnel killed in the recent fighting in Iraq. Many of the dead were members of a Marine reserve unit based in Brook Park.

CEO Search: Now that schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has announced she’s leaving the job, local leaders are turning their attention to securing a new chief. The first step was creation of a community advisory board, and then the city will hire a headhunter to assist in the search. Whoever is hired will inherit a school system beset with low morale, poor student performance and well-publicized student behavior problems.

Peter Jennings: Longtime ABC news anchor Peter Jennings succumbed to lung cancer after a distinguished career spanning more than 50 years. His death renews focus on the future of TV network news. With increasing competition from cable operations and decreasing public dependence on networks for national news, the days of the “nightly news” might be numbered.

Wal Mart: Congressman Dennis Kucinich and others massed in Cleveland this week to call on families not to buy their back-to-school supplies at Wal Mart. The reasoning goes that this will be a lesson to Wal Mart to give its workers better pay and benefits. The boycott has participants in nearly three dozen cities across the country.

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