Saturday, April 10, 2010

Sales Tax Forum: Tomorrow (Sunday) Night!

Posted By on Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM

Don't forget: You're invited to an Arizona Public Media forum on the temporary, one-penny-per-dollar sales-tax increase that voters will decide on May 18. It's happening at the UA Stevie Eller Dance Studio at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, April 11. Arizona Illustrated anchor Bill Buckmaster will moderate "Arizona Sales Tax: Fix or Folly," and your Skinny scribe, Jim Nintzel, will join The Arizona Republic's Linda Valdez and KVOA-TV's Tom McNamara to question the panelists, who will include who will include Ann-Eve Pedersen from the Arizona Education Network and Farrell Quinlan, the Arizona state director of the National Federation of Independent Business.

Stan Reynolds, Vice Dean of the Eller College of Management, will also be a guest on the forum as a neutral economist.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. If you can't make it in person, the forum will air live on PBS World (Channel 27.3, Cox 83 and Comcast 203) and will be streamed at azpm.org. The program will air on Channel 6 on Monday, April 12, from 5 to 6 p.m.

You're invited to submit questions for the show via e-mail at questions@AZpublicmedia.org, or at Arizona Public Media's Facebook page. Become a fan today!