Nov. 8, 2022 The N.C. Board of Elections posts unofficial precinct returns as they are reported. View them here. Below are the unofficial Mecklenburg vote totals for candidates on the Nov. 8 Mecklenburg election ballot, as compiled by the Mecklenburg and N.C. Boards of Elections. Victors are ... Continue Reading →
3 gather to explain their races for N.C. House
Nov. 1, 2022 The final Forum conversation about the Nov. 8 general election offered three candidates an opportunity to state their positions, and outline their hopes, for a level of government that all three said gets too little attention from Mecklenburg voters. All 12 candidates in the six ... Continue Reading →
General Election 2020
Results of the Nov. 3, 2020 general election after the canvass by all 100 N.C. counties on Nov. 17, an audit on Nov. 19 and, on Nov. 24, certification by the N.C. Board of Elections of nearly all of the county canvasses. Three county contests in Hoke, Wake and Wayne Counties, plus one District Court ... Continue Reading →
Update on The Excelsior Club
Left, Ken Koontz; facade of Excelsior Club in undated James Peeler photo. June 5, 2018 Ken Koontz opened today's Open Forum with an update on the status of the shuttered Excelsior Club. Koontz was a part-owner of the Beatties Ford Road institution in the 1980s. The nightclub was a gathering ... Continue Reading →
Primary Election 2018 results (preliminary)
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 10:40 p.m. Percentage of votes as reported May 8 by 10:40 p.m. According to the Board of Elections, these percentages do not count absentee and provisional ballots. Victors may change, particularly in the Senate 39 Democratic primary, where the difference in vote totals stood ... Continue Reading →
6 women who serve
From left: Tenea McDonald and Simone Williams, lawyers at McDonald & Williams law firm; LaBecky Roe, retired New York police officer; Tamala Bullard, associate director of human resources, Davidson College; N.C. House Rep. Becky Carney; Rep. Carla Cunningham. March 27, 2018 They've represented ... Continue Reading →
Candidates Speak: Carla Cunningham
Sept. 20, 2016 The candidates in the November 2016 general election come and go at the Forum. Videos made of their comments are posted as they become available. On this page: Carla Cunningham, candidate for N.C. House District 106. Click the video to start ... Continue Reading →
Legislative candidates, Week 2
Sept. 20, 2016 The Forum heard today from four candidates for re-election to legislative seats representing Mecklenburg districts. Two are unopposed on Nov. 8, and the challengers in the other two contests were not present. So the visits served chiefly as education for the voters in the room and ... Continue Reading →
Historic West End; Legislative Delegation
Dec. 8, 2015 Alysia Osborne went first Tuesday with a presentation on the plans for the Historic West End off the Beatties Ford Road corridor. Osborne was named last fall to a new position within Charlotte Center City Partners to direct the Northwest Charlotte district. She had previously worked ... Continue Reading →
Open Forum
Nov. 17, 2015 Tuesday's Forum began with a reminder of tragedy in Paris. It included a song, meditation time, an extended query about subjects the participants want to discuss, and a number of short presentations, among them those from N.C. Rep. Carla Cunningham, Commissioners Chair Trevor Fuller ... Continue Reading →