Hi all,

I just got an email about a special on LIW regarding the Long Island Index report.

Why Does It Cost So Much To Live On Long Island? Watch WLIW channel 21 this week to find out.

April 10, 2006

WLIW21 will use the information from the Long Island Index 2006 as a starting point to explore the factors that make it so expensive to live on Long Island.
WLIW21’s local programming for the week beginning on Monday, April 10 will provide answers to the question, Why Does It Cost So Much to Live on Long Island?

Carrie Meek Gallagher, Project Director of the Long Island Index will be featured on Act II with Newsday which will air on Saturday, April 15 at 7:30 pm. The following schedule is provided for your information. All programs are 30 minutes.

I. Show: Q&A

Topic: Long Island housing crisis, affordable housing and housing legislation

Date/Time: Monday, April 10 at 7:30 pm;rebroadcasts Saturday, April 15 at 7:00 am

Guests:

New York State Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, (D), Sponsor, Long Island Workforce Housing Incentive Program

New York State Senator Carl Marcellino, (R), Sponsor, Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing Bill

Marge Rogatz, President, Community Advocates

Hosted by: Alexander Johnson


II. Show: Face Off
Topic: State budget and taxes

Date/Time: Tuesday April 11 at 7:30 pm; rebroadcasts Saturday, April 15 at 6:30 am

Guests:

Frank Morrow - Executive Director of Fiscal Policy Institute

Irwin Kellner - Augustus B Weller Chair of Economics, Hofstra

Hosted by: Robert McMillan (Guest host- Tom Barraga) Lawrence Levy


III. Show: Ticket
Topic: How the arts impact our economy

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 12 at 7:30 pm; rebroadcasts Thursday, April 13 at 11:30 pm

Guests:

Michelle Isabelle Stark – Director of Cultural Affairs for Suffolk County

Frank Boulton - Principal Owner/CEO of “The Long Island Ducks” baseball team. Funded “The Boulton Center” for the performing arts in Bayshore

Roger Tilles – New York State Regent *

Hosted by: Laura Savini


IV. Show: 21 Forum

Topic: Property taxes, school budgets and affordable housing

Date/Time: Thursday, April 13 at 7:30 pm; rebroadcasts Sunday, April 16 at 11:30 pm

Guests:

Dr. Shirley Robinson- Pippin – President of Suffolk County Community College

Rick Brand – Newsday Staff Writer

Edmund J. McMahon – Director, Empire Center for New York State Policy,a project of the Manhattan Institute. Senior fellow for Tax and Budgetary Studies at the Institute's Center for Civic Innovation.

Patrick Halpin – Former Suffolk County Executive

Hosted by: Lisa Jandovitz

V. Show: Act Two with Newsday

Topics:

* Long Island Index report on the high cost of living* A civic minded family struggles to develop their property for multi-use

* The Energeia Partnership - regional stewardship working to transform Long Island

Date/Time: Saturday, April 15 at 7:30 pm; rebroadcasts Sunday, April 16 at 7:30 am

Guests:

Carrie Meek Gallagher – Project Director, the Long Island Index

Mark Mediavillia - Orchard Park Development

Paul Tonna – Executive Director, The Energeia Partnership

Hosted by: Lyn May

* Appearance to be confirmed