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Feagler and Friends - Tom Batiuk, Cartoonist
Feagler and Friends
 
 
 
Newsmaker: Tom Batiuk, creator of Funky Winkerbean. Cartoonists making their living bringing laughter to their readers. But Medina's Tom Batiuk mixed tears with humor in recent installments of his nationally-syndicated comic strip. His character Lisa Moore died this week after a long battle with breast cancer, a condition she faced with a mixture of courage and resignation. He tells the complete story in his new book, Lisa's Story-the other shoe. He'll talk with Mr. Feagler about the thinking that went into the story line and about the parallels with his own cancer experience.

Newsmaker II: Peter Rubin, president and CEO, the Coral Company. Greater Cleveland is home to two "lifestyle centers," Legacy Village and Crocker Park. Developer Peter Rubin would like to make it a third, announcing plans for Central Parc in Solon. Rubin's planned retail, commercial and residential development would be built in part on land already occupied by homes and businesses. Negotiations on land acquisition are underway now and Rubin is asking Solon officials to give his project the green light.

Roundtable: Steve Gleydura, editor, Cleveland Magazine; James Ewinger, reporter, The Plain Dealer.

Dueling Developers: City leaders and voters in Solon will choose between competing lifestyle center plans. Developer Bob Stark, who built Crocker Park, also wants to create a retail/residential venture in Solon. He'll make his presentation to Solon city council on October 15. Stark's center would be built at a different location and would not be built on top of existing homes.

Collegetown: While the development spotlight shines on the suburbs, another business group is making plans for the College Town development across Euclid Avenue from Cleveland State University. The group plans hundreds of apartments and thousands of square feet of street-level retail between East 18th Street and the Innerbelt in downtown Cleveland. The start-up of College Town would coincide with the conclusion of RTA's Euclid Corridor Project.

Premier Public Transit: The Greater Cleveland RTA has been named the nation's best big-city public transit system by the American Public Transportation Association. RTA competed with systems in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto, among others. RTA's system of trains, cross-town buses, trolleys and circulators generated over 57-million passenger trips last year.

October 8, 2007