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, September 23, 2005

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Newsmaker: Jeff Murphy, director of rates and regulatory affairs for Dominion East Ohio Gas. We’re getting set to shell out a lot more cold cash to keep warm this winter. In East Ohio territory, prices we’ll pay about 50% more than we did last winter. People in Columbia Gas country will pay about a third more. We’ll find out from a top Dominion official why the rates are going up so much and where they might be headed in the future.

Newsmaker 2: Jim Rokakis, Cuyahoga County treasurer. Thousands of Cuyahoga County families are losing their homes to mortgage foreclosures. In fact, foreclosures are expected to set a record in northeast Ohio this year; and home loans are crashing and burning at high rates all over Ohio. The county’s come up with some ideas to ease the crunch.

Roundtable panelists: Bill Livingston, sports columnist, the Plain Dealer; Richard DeKaser, chief economist, National City Bank; Tim McCormack, former Cuyahoga County Commissioner.

Indians on the Rise: It’s been an exciting summer for fans of the Cleveland Indians. After years of rebuilding, the Indians are on the verge of making the American League playoffs. The front office has built a team of exciting young players who’ve been on a second-half tear that the Indians teams of the late 90’s might have envied. Do we dare think about the World Series?

Interest Rates on the Rise: If the U.S. economy were a football game, the Fed might have been penalized for piling on this week. Americans reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina and rising energy prices found out this week that interest rates are going up another quarter per cent. The Fed indicates it’s more worried about inflation than the storm surge.s

Bush on the Wane? President Bush’s approval rating hits an all-time low for his administration. His administration has been under attack for slow response to the New Orleans disaster. The same hurricane-driven water that flooded New Orleans may be eroding public confidence in the administration’s ability to cope with other challenges, such as Iraq.

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