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 →
4 candidates for Council At-Large seats pitch for support
Oct. 14, 2025 This morning's Forum attracted four of six at-large candidates for Charlotte City Council. Dimple Ajmera and Edwin Peacock were not present.There were three Democrats – LaWana Mayfield, James Mitchell and Victoria Watlington – and a Republican, Misun Kim, who in addressing the ... Continue Reading →
Roberts, Peacock square off a week before election
Oct. 27, 2015 This is a recording of the live broadcast of the appearance by Charlotte mayor candidates Jennifer Roberts and Edwin Peacock at the Forum this morning. The initial presentation, by Peacock, begins at minute 7:20. ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte mayoral candidates
Aug. 11, 2014 Over the course of two Tuesdays, Forum participants heard from five of the six mayoral candidates who face off in their respective primaries Sept. 15. Scott Stone did not attend. Michael Barnes was present Aug. 4, the rest on Aug. 11. Thus, the candidates faced different questions. ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte mayoral candidates
The Forum does not host debates, but normally after individual candidates give their introductory comments, all candidates for one office who are in the room will share time during the Q&A, and often respond to the same questions asked by Forum participants in the audience. Tuesday's ... Continue Reading →
Primary election leaders
Pitching a big-tent party
With Democratic legislators in the audience, two of the Republican candidates on Charlotte's election ballot made their case that Raleigh Republians had gone too far in their attempts to remake North Carolina. And Peacock, a former two-term City Council member, lit into the current council for the ... Continue Reading →