May 27, 2025 Kristine Smith writes history. The history of Mecklenburg County government, one meeting at a time. The Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners, in her summary minutes of open and closed commissioner meetings, says she knows that county residents not only want to know who voted ... Continue Reading →
An explainer on fair housing enforcement activities
April 1, 2025 As the Fair Housing Month sponsored by the National Association of Realtors opened, staff members from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee (CRC) offered a session on local efforts to encourage nondiscrimination in housing and public accommodations. The CRC ... Continue Reading →
First Black female firefighter continues to fight
March 25, 2025 Linda Lockhart arrived with her family in Charlotte as the schools were desegregating in 1970. Her narrative this morning about her experiences as the first African-American woman hired into the Charlotte Fire Department is difficult to listen to. But overall it's compatible with ... Continue Reading →
Rep. Adams: Focus on ways to blunt Trump tyrrany
March 18, 2025 Alma Adams sprinkles the word salad with reality, not bluster. Bipartisanship does work. Research should precede action. Members of Congress listen to constituents. The executive branch's job is to spend the money appropriated by Congress. There are ways individual citizens and ... Continue Reading →
Barrier-breaking U.S. Attorney ready for next venture
March 4, 2025 U.S. Attorneys who are presidentially appointed, as Charlotte-based Dena J. King was, cycle out of those positions when a new president is inaugurated. King's resignation as U.S. Attorney for the N.C. Western District was effective Feb. 12. And what since then – and what about her ... Continue Reading →
4 Black mayors reflect on the way forward
Feb. 4, 2025 Four African-Americans have or are now serving as Charlotte's mayor. Their service spans more than 40 years, from 1983 to the present. During that time, the population has tripled, the city's national standing has skyrocketed, its economic engines have radically changed – but the ... Continue Reading →
How to have a say in county budget and parks planning
Jan. 14, 2025 Residents complain now and then about not knowing about issues affecting their neighborhoods and lives until after policy decisions have already been made. The Forum this morning gave participants an opportunity to hear just how public input is currently welcomed on two very ... Continue Reading →
Precinct organizing is #1, advocate of accountability concludes
Nov. 17, 2024 Journalist Ken Koontz says that, about eight years ago, he saw a need for some way that citizens could hold their elected officials publicly accountable for the promises they make. He wrote a draft of how a "We The People Alliance" could issue letter grades, "A" through "F," as a ... Continue Reading →
Panel to explore plan to hold officeholders accountable
Nov. 13, 2024 Longtime journalist and community activist Ken Koontz announced details of a presentation scheduled at the Forum next Tuesday, Nov. 19. He offered these details in advance so that participants, both in the Belmont Center meeting room and online, would be able to read about the ... Continue Reading →
Discerning a path toward higher voter turnout
Nov. 12, 2024 Monifa Drayton worked in leadership positions, and more recently opened a coaching and leadership consulting firm. She opened her Forum presentation by saying she was unable to comment on her resignation last week as executive director of the Mecklenburg Democratic Party. But in ... Continue Reading →
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