Aug. 6, 2024 A real estate investor seven years into an effort to build a grocery to serve Statesville Avenue neighborhoods. A Beatties Ford Road advocate pulling together a community owned food co-op. A leader of a farm-to-family food provider serving multiple counties. A 20-year veteran ... Continue Reading →
History doesn’t make people; People make history
Feb. 1, 2023 “Black history is a lifetime. It is not a month. Stop letting other people control the narrative.” – Forum participant Gary Marion Jan. 24, 2023 Perhaps there is no middle way between the stout defenders of Black History Month and Gary Marion's ... Continue Reading →
Planning around what residents want
Oct. 12, 2021 Interstate 77 was conceived in the 1950s, extended toward Mecklenburg in the 1960s, bulldozed through Charlotte schools, homes, cemeteries and businesses in the 1970s and opened to traffic in 1977. Like so many U.S. cities, Charlotte can't really repair the damage from its encounter ... Continue Reading →
Looking for action on languishing Excelsior Club site
June 11, 2019 An open Forum on the Excelsior Club put more details in the public domain about efforts in the last year to find a new owner and a new use for the club. It also led Tuesday to interest in a broader group of people to quickly develop a vision for City Council and the Board of County ... Continue Reading →
Collaboration works to give all students digital access at home
Jan. 9, 2018 The project is simple in concept: Give students a way, as easy as borrowing a library book, to have not just a computer but portable Internet access to do their homework. J'Tanya Adams led a panel discussion this morning to discuss how CMS and nonprofits have teamed up to turn a ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte Municipal First Primary results
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Most questions for Council hopefuls are variants on ‘How would you make a difference?’
Aug. 8, 2017 Four candidates on the Sept. 12 primary ballot discussed housing, gentrification and education at the Forum this morning. Attending were District 4 hopeful Damiko Faulkner and District 2 hopefuls Eric Erickson, Justin Harlow and J'Tanya Adams. An error by the scribe left the ... Continue Reading →
Election 2017: J’Tanya Adams
– Page initiated Feb. 14, 2017 J'Tanya Adams is a candidate for Charlotte City Council District 2. Below are video or audio files of statements made by the candidate or surrogates at the Forum during the 2017 election cycle. To start a video, click on it. Aug. 8, ... Continue Reading →
‘Working to get more of Charlotte connected’
Nov. 19, 2015 QCityMetro profiles J’Tanya Adams’ work spearheading Saturday’s Internet and Computer Bazaar to provide more low-income families access to the Internet. Read the story here. ... Continue Reading →