The four Republicans seeking their party's nomination for the seat in Arizona Congressional District 8's special election will appear in an hour-long forum on Arizona Public Media Wednesday.
Frank Antenori, Jesse Kelly, Martha McSally and Dave Sitton will respond to questions from AZPM political correspondents Andrea Kelly and Christopher Conover.
Kelly and Conover want your questions for the candidates. Submit those questions by using the comment box below. You may address one candidate or all. Questions needed by day's end Tuesday.
The forum will be broadcast on PBS-HD6 and NPR 89.1 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday and may be seen online starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday at AZPM's Your Vote 2012 Election Center.
The first day of spring this year is Tuesday, March 20, and spring is clearly the most popular season among classical composers. For summer, autumn and winter I can drop relevant pieces onto the schedule here and there, but for spring there's enough music for a full day of programming.
We'll launch the season between 6 and 7 a.m. with some lesser-known short items, i addition to the popular On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring by Delius. Vivaldi's "Spring" Concerto will blossom shortly before the 8:01 news, and the day will continue with the expected spring works by Stravinsky, Copland, Beethoven, Strauss and Schumann--and a lot of unexpected music, as well. You can inspect the full schedule here.
Republican Wil Cardon is the second U.S. Senate candidate in Arizona to release a TV advertisement this week, taking the race to the airwaves five months ahead of the primary election.
The open Senate seat, being vacated by Republican Jon Kyl, has drawn interest from both major parties. In the Republican primary, so far Cardon and U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake are competing for the nomination. Democrats Don Bivens, a former state party chairman, and former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona are seeking their party’s nod.
Cardon’s ad is an introduction of him to voters, and says he is “an outsider” who will work to create jobs if elected.
Bivens released his first TV ad yesterday, targeting Flake for his party’s stance on women’s health care issues that have come up in national politics recently.
The Legislative District 29 Democratic Committee has passed a resolution calling for the resignation of Rep. Daniel Patterson. The resolution said, “With criminal charges and an ethics investigation by the House of Representatives pending, the LD29 Democrats call for the resignation of Rep. Daniel Patterson for lack of decorum and professionalism."
The vote from the LD 29 committee comes just hours before Patterson is set to go before the House Ethics Committee. Patterson was charged with four misdemeanor domestic violence charges last week. The ethics complaint stems from domestic violence allegations.
Patterson pleaded not guilty to the charges in a Tucson court. It should be noted that both Patterson and his former girl friend admit they did have a fight.
Questions abound for those studying Arizona's residential real estate landscape.
When will it recover? What will it look like when it does recover? Will housing prices go up anytime soon? Can new home construction ever achieve what it once did in the state?
We will ask Michael Orr those questions and more. Orr is director of the Real Estate Center at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He's acknowledged as the leading analyst of real estate in Arizona.
Orr's recent report says the state should experience a "mild recovery" this year in homebuilding. That would come after what he called the "worst year ever for sales volume in 2011."
If you have a question for Orr, add it to the comments section below, and we will ask him for Friday's program.
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