Jan. 17, 2023 Note to men and women who have not been held in prisons or jails operating under the laws of North Carolina: Take 75 minutes right now and listen to this presentation by Kristie Puckett-Williams. May it change your life priorities and, as soon as possible, also change the laws of ... Continue Reading →
Reflecting on how to refocus attention on community needs
Jan. 10, 2023 Open Forum meetings over the years have often focused on creating lists of people that should be invited to make presentations at future meetings. There was some of that this morning, and big issues – CMS growth plans and the city's development guidelines, for examples – are ... Continue Reading →
Whither Charlotte-Mecklenburg?
Jan. 1, 2023 The following were published as a series in the "Recently at the Forum" space on the front of the Forum website during the post-holiday period, Jan. 1-Jan. 10, when the Forum did not meet. A series named "Happy Holidays" was published in that space Dec. 19-31. True, it is ... Continue Reading →
Happy Holidays 2022
These windows on the 2022 holidays were published in the "Recently at the Forum" space on the front of this website during the Forum's winter holiday. ... Continue Reading →
Richard McElrath: A Remembrance
Dec. 13, 2022 Longtime Charlotte civic leader Mary Klenz donated the funds to make breakfast food for today's Forum as a remembrance of educator, school board member and Forum participant Richard McElrath, who died in 2020 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Cris Robinson donated her ... Continue Reading →
Tracking West End’s dirty air to leverage positive change
Dec. 13, 2022 Bisected by major Charlotte thruways and their particulate-spewing vehicle tailpipes. Home to polluting industries. Neighbor to a gravel quarry. Unprotected by local government for generations from the health effects of the unrelenting environmental onslaught. Daisha Wall, ... Continue Reading →
Perspective | Charity is splendid, public education necessary
Dec. 2, 2022; republished Dec. 7 By Ferrel Guillory, EducationNC The civic holidays and religious holy days that span from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day turn Americans’ attention to people in need. A glossary of phrases signifies the season: Angel Tree, Advent Giving Tree, Toys for Tots, Coats ... Continue Reading →
Building businesses: Seeing ways to work together
Dec. 6, 2022 The four presenters wore different hats, and were in a variety of economic sectors. The ventures that their business lives revolve around are in different phases of the business life cycle. But all seemed to share an interest in getting better through collaboration – not just among ... Continue Reading →
Hall defied the odds to lead a training center for construction trades
Nov. 29, 2022 Frances Hall grew up surrounded by the old ways. She grew up around people gainfully employed in the trades. They took her to job sites, taught her about reading, about blueprints, about the math so essential in construction. She experienced how important it was that one generation ... Continue Reading →
Through tears and hard work, triumph
Nov. 15, 2022 In a relatively short span of time, West Mecklenburg High School graduate Cheryse Terry gave birth, lost the woman who raised her, got a job, was laid off, and saw a house fire destroy most of the tangible links to her childhood. Out of that cauldron of hurt and hope and change came ... Continue Reading →
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