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The Network of Asian-American Organizations and its member organizations will host a candidate forum Saturday. Candidates for Mayor and City Council who responded to an NAAO candidate questionnaire will be permitted to speak on a first-come, first-serve basis and as time permits. Thirty-one candidates responded to the questionnaire. The NAAO political action committee, which is a separate group, will announce candidate endorsements after the forum. The meeting is set for 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Asian-American Resource Center, 8401 Cameron Road.

Mike Kanin is the Publisher of the Austin Monitor. As such, he doesn't report on much--aside from the workings of the Monitor--any more. In his previous life as a freelance journalist, Kanin has written...