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 30, 2005

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Newsmaker: Bill Priemer, Chief Operating Officer and executive vice-president of Hyland Software. The Westlake high-tech company announced this week that it’s going to expand and add 200+ employees over the next year or so. That’s on top of a work force that currently totals 450. Hyland is well-known for its youthful, innovative leadership and its upbeat, employee-friendly atmosphere.

Roundtable panelists: Kevin O’Brien, editorial writer for the Plain Dealer; Mike Walker, Partnership for a Safer Cleveland; Reverend Marvin McMickle of Antioch Baptist Church.

This week on Feagler and Friends, our roundtable panelists will tackle the key issues in the Mayor’s race. Cleveland voters go to the polls Tuesday, October 4th to select two finalists from a field of eight candidates for Mayor. The field includes incumbent Mayor Jane Campbell and seven men who hope to capture the office in November. All eight hope to convince voters they’re the best person to solve the city’s problems.

Among the key issues:

Job creation: Cleveland’s unemployment rate continues to be higher than the statewide average.

Poverty: Cleveland is no longer the nation’s poorest city, but a substantial percentage of the population still lives below the poverty line.

Crime: The federal government says crime is the lowest it’s been in decades, but people in northeast Ohio still lament dangers they see in their own neighborhoods and officials say the perception that treatment will be lenient has led to a generation of bolder criminals.

Education: Cleveland schools face a renewed demand for rebirth after fiscal setbacks erased out some of the gains in student achievement. It might be up to the new Mayor to choose a new CEO.

Cleveland’s image: leaders look for ways to overcome the region’s image as the buckle on the Rust Belt.

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