September 18, 2018 There were many plaudits from Forum participants today for city officials on how Charlotte's uniformed and ununiformed service personnel responded during Storm Florence. One of the focuses of the presentation was on preparation and how technology and modern practices were ... Continue Reading →
Census update: What’s at stake
Aug. 28, 2018 To bring home the relevance of Census 2020, Stacey Carless and Adam Sotak focused on how the results of the every-10-year count will affect funding for government programs. Carless, a lawyer, is executive director of NC Counts, a fledgling nonprofit advocacy group focused on the ... Continue Reading →
Know your rights: A glimpse of CMPD transparency presentation
July 10, 2018 Maria Macon introduced the morning's task: Get a bit of exposure to what is going in at the Council of Elders' daylong Know Your Rights workshops. A piece of that workshop is CMPD Officer Shawn Ward's police transparency training. Ward told the group that how police share ... Continue Reading →
Tough cop becomes advocate for mental health training for officers
June 26, 2018 Kareem Puranda says he now knows what it's like to face a tough cop who knows the system well enough to get away with trashing lives and wrecking families. For Kareem Puranda says he was once such a cop. Today, the self-published author is a counselor and believes that all police ... Continue Reading →
REAL ID: NC gears up for a security measure born out of 9/11
Lisa Crawford; excerpts from a REAL ID brochure; download the brochure here. June 19, 2018 Even in a crowd that knew and loved her, Lisa Crawford had tough go of it, wading through the cynicism and suspicion. Imagine less loving crowds, where she must again detail how a massive change in driver's ... Continue Reading →
City’s budget: Staff repeatedly questioned about westside investments
June 12, 2018 It was Tuesday morning, and during the previous evening the Charlotte City Council had given its approval to a budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year. It was no longer the city manager's proposed budget; it was the Council's budget. But nonetheless, it was City Manager Marcus ... Continue Reading →
Charleston Carter, Trial Court Administrator
May 22, 2018 Charleston Carter is the first African-American Trial Court Administrator in Mecklenburg's 26th Judicial District. He became TCA in November, after 22 years of experience in similar positions in Georgia. A court website says the job entails "development of local rules and ... Continue Reading →
The James Mitchell Report
April 3, 2018 The Forum's rules are not totally inflexible, but James Mitchell knew that when he was offered 10 minutes for his presentation this morning, he had better get into sprint mode. And so he did, as those who watch the video below will attest. The longest-serving current member of ... Continue Reading →
Women serving on Mecklenburg bench discuss roles, ways they cope
March 13, 2018 They joke about being "seasoned" judges or "baby" judges. The talk about conferencing about cases and seeking out advice from one another, and gaining support from one another as they are buffeted by the trauma and conflict of the humans of all ages that end up in their ... Continue Reading →
Thriving in local govenment service, pulling others in
Feb. 27, 2018 Three who serve in positions in local government made a case this morning that their presence in staff positions can help bring a diversity of views into the creation of local policy. They also told their stories of how they can help pull more people of color into positions in which ... Continue Reading →
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