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 11, 2005

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Newsmaker: Natan Sharansky, former Soviet dissident and Israeli government minister. Sharansky, who was in Cleveland this week for a speech sponsored by a local Jewish group, talks to Feagler about the rocky road to peace in the Middle East and about the role democracy in general and the United States in particular might play.

Roundtable panelists: Chris Sheridan, editorial writer of the Plain Dealer; Dan Moulthrop, ideastream; Patrick Shepherd, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats.

Winners and Losers: Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell joins the list of one-term Mayors. Former city council president Frank Jackson replaces her and declares himself ready to take on Cleveland’s challenges. Martin Sweeney is elected president of council. Statewide voters approved a big bond issue that supplies money for road and bridge repairs and some seed money for high-tech ventures. And they overwhelmingly shot down four constitutional amendments that would have changed the way campaigns are paid for and elections are managed.

Anti-Smoking Measure: The Summit County Council is preparing to snuff out smoking in public places countywide. The proposed ban would forbid smoking in all places frequented by the public, including such popular destinations as bars and restaurants. Health experts say the ban would reduce exposure to secondhand smoke; opponents say business owners should have the right to admit smokers if they want.

Newsmaker II: Josh Knerly, French honorary consul in Cleveland: France is hoping an upcoming holiday weekend brings an end to two weeks of rioting by poor and immigrant teens. The rioting has exposed the frustration of West African and Muslim youth who complain they’re locked out of the French mainstream. Friday is Armistice Day, marking the end of World War One, a national holiday in France.

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