Sales tax increase for transportation OKd All 195 precincts reporting, 11:32 p.m.; Nov. 4, 2025 Release of unofficial Mecklenburg vote totals will occur in real time at the NC Board of Elections website here after polls close at 7:30 p.m. on Election Day. This page is used chiefly to add ... Continue Reading →
Graham pursues a ‘way forward’ to end America’s embedded racism
June 3, 2025 In 2015, Malcolm Graham in many ways became head of an extended family grieving over the loss of their sister and family member. Cynthia Graham Hurd and eight others were murdered during a Blble Study at Emanuel Church in Charleston, where Malcolm and his siblings grew up. More Bible ... Continue Reading →
New sale expected at Excelsior Club site
Malcolm Graham offers update on economic issues facing city
July 9, 2024 There was talk about minority contracting, facilitating jobs, the Bank of America stadium renovations. All issues that are well within the wheelhouse of the chair of Charlotte City Council's Economic Development Committee. But Malcolm Graham is a district representative on Council, ... Continue Reading →
‘The revolution will be led by babies’
April 2, 2024 Greg Jackson came to Charlotte for a “new identity.” The identity, he says, found him. A viral video showing him during a Keith Lamont Scott street protest made him realize it was time to regroup and work to make a difference for the Charlotte children growing up in neighborhoods ... Continue Reading →
Election 2023
195 of 195 precincts reporting; Nov. 7, 2023 Release of Mecklenburg vote totals will occur in real time at the NC Board of Elections website here after polls close at 7:30 p.m. on Election Day. This page will not report write-ins. It is used chiefly to add election results to the Forum’s archive on ... Continue Reading →
Sept. 12 Charlotte Primary Results
Sept. 12, 2023 Vote tabulations as published Election Night by the State Board of Elections, with 100% of precincts reporting, but provisional ballots still to be added. Turnout was just under 5%. State maps show two precincts in a tie. The tie was zero votes in Precinct 200 (along Catawba ... Continue Reading →
Economic development dominates District 2 primary discussion
Aug. 22, 2023 New housing that will gentrify the Beatties Ford Road corridor and imperil lower-income residents. Decades-old commercial lots big enough for a new building but not big enough to provide the parking that city ordinances now require. The infusion of city money into Eastland ... Continue Reading →
Index to 2023 Mecklenburg elections
Page initiated July 21, 2022 Listed below are three lists of 2023 candidates for Charlotte and CMS elective office: the Nov. 7 City ballot for mayor and City Council; the Nov. 7 CMS Board of Education ballot; and the candidates who ran in Charlotte's Sept.12 primary but were unsuccessful. The CMS ... Continue Reading →
Congratulations to the winners
July 26, 2022, 9:49 p.m.; 168 of 168 precincts reporting Charlotte Mayor Vi Liles (D) 68.42% Stephanie De Sarachaga-Bilbao (R) 31.32% Charlotte City Council At-large Dimple Ajmera (D) 16.55% Braxton Winston (D) 16.30% LaWana Slack-Mayfield (D) 15.08% James Mitchell (D) 15.06% Kyle Luebke ... Continue Reading →