- Residents need to ask hard questions where candidates will hear them - A candidate forum for NC Senate candidates helped spotlight state policies that are unhelpful to individuals and families in North Carolina.
- Bryant shows transparency and commitment - Aug. 18, 2026 By DANYAE THOMAS Great conversation this morning with Mecklenburg County Manager Michael Bryant at the Tuesday Morning Forum. Managing a $2.5 billion budget is no small feat and leading more than 6,400 employees is no small feat either. Yet, since stepping into the role on June 30, 2025, Mr. Bryant has demonstrated […]
- - June 23, 2026 By ZHATEYA JONES For many families, conversations about death, inheritance and estate planning are often delayed until a crisis occurs. Two of Mecklenburg County’s leading voices on probate and estate administration this morning urged residents to prepare long before those difficult moments arrive. The forum featured Elisa Chinn Gary, Mecklenburg County Clerk […]
A new affront in the Charlotte grocery wars - Neighborhood leader Sean Langley offers a comment about the imminent arrival of a new grocery story far from where one is desperately needed.- Exploring why men are absent from civic life - A film premiering May 23 was inspired by a sense that men – particularly Black men – are increasingly absent from civic spaces. Are men are no longer showing up in civic life the way previous generations once did?
- Rev. Corine Mack explores multiple myeloma - Rev. Corine Mack leads a discussion of a cancer named multiple myeloma.
- Writing Truth, Fighting for Community, and Turning Life into Legacy - March 24, 2026 By ZHATEYA JONES In a world where many wait for permission to speak, Dr. Blanche Penn has built a life – and a literary catalog – on doing the opposite. Author, community advocate, and civic leader, Penn has spent decades transforming lived experience into testimony, using her voice not only to document […]
- 2 advocates review the alarming statistics - March 10, 2026 By ZHATEYA JONES The Forum’s first session in a series prepared for Women’s History Month posed this question: Why are Black women still dying in childbirth in the United States? Presenter was Danette McLaurin Glass, Managing Principal and Senior Strategist of First TEAM America and Chair of the Center for Family and […]
- More about CMS principal Joseph C. Belton - Feb. 12, 2026 By Queen Norwood Thompson The Feb. 10 session was excellent. I applaud the group’s discussion on education and that of Mrs. Belton as a counselor at West Charlotte High School. David Belton’s father, Mr. Joseph C. Belton, was equally a powerhouse in Charlotte. I and my husband attended J. H. Gunn High […]
- Background on Dillon’s Rule - Dec. 2, 2025 Nothing will end this Dillon’s Rule controversy, but here is some background, from Coates’ Canons NC Local Government Law “The ‘rule’ refers to a standard for judicial interpretation – a guide for judges suggesting that municipal powers should be narrowly construed. It was developed by John Forest Dillon, a judge and scholar […]