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, November 4, 2005

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Newsmaker: Rev. Kenneth Chalker, minister, First United Methodist Church of Cleveland. United Methodist church officials have removed and defrocked a Philadelphia minister who told her congregation that’s she’s a lesbian involved in a long-term relationship. The church’s Judicial Council also reinstated a Virginia minister suspended for refusing a gay man admission to his congregation. Mr. Feagler will speak with a local minister who says he’ll defy the church’s official stance.

Roundtable panelists: Kevin O’Brien, editorial writer of the Plain Dealer; Joan Mazzolini, Plain Dealer reporter; Harry Boomer, 19 Action News.

Religion and Gay Parishioners: We’ll discuss the actions of the United Methodist Church Judicial Council with our roundtable members.

Cleveland Mayoral Race: We’ll take the pulse of the race between incumbent Jane Campbell and challenger Frank Jackson with just days to go until the voters make their choice. The candidates have been getting major exposure this week, thanks to a locally-broadcast Cleveland City Club debate and an upcoming hour-long debate to be aired on WVIZ and WKYC.

Alito for Supreme Court: President Bush wasted no time following the withdrawal of Harriet Miers. He appointed Samuel Alito, a federal appeals court judge from New Jersey. Alito is being lauded for his accomplished legal resume; but is under fire for his conservative stance on issues like abortion. The so-called “Gang of 14” in the U.S. Senate has promised that a filibuster will not prevent a confirmation vote.

English-Only: A Republican Ohio lawmaker expects to introduce a bill soon that will require that records to be produced only in the English language. Even before its introduction, opponents are skewering the measure as divisive and intolerant.

Rosa Parks: Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was laid to rest this week after her death at the age of 92. It was Parks who volunteered to test a city law in Montgomery, Alabama requiring blacks to give up bus seats in favor of whites. The Parks case led to a year-long bus boycott and helped to galvanize the civil rights movement.

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