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, October 21, 2005

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Newsmaker: Bill Stern, President and CEO of Stern Advertising. He’s the creative mind behind the “Believe in Cleveland” ads you’ve seen on TV, in print, on the radio and in other media. It’s all about selling Clevelanders on the idea that their city, their region, is a great place to work and raise a family; and that better times are ahead.

Roundtable panelists: Chris Sheridan, editorial writer of the Plain Dealer; Betsy Sullivan, foreign affairs writer for the Plain Dealer; freelance journalist Mike Roberts.

Saddam in the Dock: Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and a handful of his lieutenants appeared in a Baghdad courtroom this week to answer accusations stemming from the killings of scores of Shiites after a 1982 assassination attempt. The proceedings adjourned until late November, but not before shows of defiance from a bearded Saddam and a shoving match with guards.

School Attendance: A lot of Cleveland school kids have been coming to class disguised as empty desks. School officials reported absences in the hundreds when, in fact, they were in the hundreds of thousands. What gives? School leaders are investigating with help from state officials.

A Living Wage: Voters in Oberlin will decide at the polls next month whether businesses providing goods and services to city government should be required to pay their workers a “living wage.” In Oberlin, that’s said to be nearly eleven dollars-an-hour. Oberlin would join a number of northeast Ohio cities, Cleveland included, with living wage provisions.

Fling the Bling: The NBA wants to give players a more button-down look when they’re on team business. Players will have to ditch the gangsta gear and adhere to a new dress code generally described as “business casual.”

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