Monday, March 21, 2011

Candidate forums remain on schedule

Tuesday, March 22

*Mayoral debate, 7 to 8 p.m. at Brookens Auditorium at the University of Illinois Springfield. It will be carried live on WICS-TV and WMAY-AM. WICS news anchor Jerry Lambert will moderate, and a media panel will include Katie Heinz of WICS, Jim Leach of WMAY and Chris Wetterich of The State Journal-Register. Questions from viewers and listeners will be presented by Jessica McGee of WICS. Rebroadcasts on WICS at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 26, and 10:35 p.m. Sunday, March 27.

Friday, March 25

Citizens Club of Springfield mayoral forum, Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. Sixth St. Coffee at 7:30 a.m., forum begins at 8 a.m. Rich Bradley, retired news director of WUIS-FM, will moderate a media panel that will include Matt Dietrich, editorial page editor of The State Journal-Register, and Patrick Yeagle of Illinois Times. Free, open to public.

The debate schedule was published in a March 19, 2011, edition of The State Journal-Register.

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