Got a question for a local candidate? Now’s your chance to ask it. The Sacramento Press is participating in a candidates forum Saturday that covers several local races, and we want to know what you’d like us to ask. The event is hosted by the League of Women Voters of Sacramento County and covers several local races: Citrus Heights City Council, Elk Grove mayor, Galt City Council, Rancho Cordova City Council, the Sacramento City Council candidates for districts two and four, and the Folsom City Council. The forum is co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Cable Television Commission and will air live on Metro Cable 14. The public is also welcome to attend the panel, which is going to be held a

One of Sacramento's hotly contested City Council races will be the subject of a forum Wednesday, as Joe Yee and Steve Hansen vie to represent downtown, Midtown and Land Park in November's election. Yee is a longtime Sacramento resident who currently lives in Land Park, while Hansen lives downtown. The two areas are decidedly different, and the challenge for each candidate will be how to represent both. Each candidate has been supported by city unions. The Sacramento Press recently chatted with Yee, and Hansen was endorsed by local firefighters last week. Hansen and Yee will square off from 7 - 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Pioneer Congregational United Church of Christ, 2700 L St., in a forum

The candidates from all of the City Council district races, the mayoral race and two Board of Supervisors races will face off Saturday at a forum hosted by the League of Women Voters. One notable exception: Mayor Kevin Johnson is not scheduled to appear. According to Johnson’s campaign manager, Steve Maviglio, Johnson has “no need” to attend. “Given the large number of events the mayor has attended over the past year, and since none of his opponents are waging a real campaign against him, he chose not to participate in this event,” Maviglio said Friday. The news of Johnson’s planned absence came as no surprise to mayoral candidate Jonathan Rewers. “He’s not even campaigning,” Rewers s

If you could ask the candidates for City Council anything – what would you want to know? The race for City Council District 4 immediately caught fire when incumbent Rob Fong announced he wasn’t running for re-election, and now seven candidates are vying for the seat. Some of the questions the candidates will likely face include, who gets dibs on neighborhood parking – businesses or residents? Where should much-needed bridges go – at Broadway, or Richards Boulevard? And what about The Claw? Can our tree-lined streets survive only three months of city pickup service? In the mayoral race, three challengers stepped up to face incumbent Kevin Johnson, and all four will likely hear questions

Top priority topics in the June 8 election for District 3 include the budget, creating more jobs and becoming more business friendly, according to the candidates. "Unless we grapple with (the budget), we can't get other things done," incumbent Steve Cohn said. Chris Little said creating jobs is the most important issue. "(Sacramento is) the Silicon Valley for medicine," he said. "(It's a matter of) taking what we have right here and leveraging it." Shawn Eldredge said that Sacramento needs to focus on business. "It's about re-creating a healthy downtown core that's business friendly, for not only large corporations, but all small business, too," he said. "We need to be a city that emb