Sept. 3, 2024 Presenters Tuesday represented mostly community and nonprofit groups active in encouraging voter turnout. Many stand in the nonpartisan space, and must be careful in their comments. But they agreed to a stipulation that the agenda of the day was to examine low voter turnout in ... Continue Reading →
New name, same mission: Sarah Stevenson Tuesday Forum
Jan. 4, 2022 Sarah Stevenson Tuesday Forum. Facilitators this morning announced their November decision to re-brand the community group that's been known over the years as a club and a forum but chiefly as the place where one strong woman insisted that people could get along and, by golly, they ... Continue Reading →
7 CMS candidates on November ballot address Forum
Sept. 8, 2015 Seven candidates for three at-large seats on the CMS Board of Education addressed the Forum today. All nine were invited; Angela Ambroise did not attend, and Larry Bumgarner said he would be out of town and would come to a later Forum. Two decisions made the Sept. 8 Forum ... Continue Reading →
More primary candidates, and more
They came to talk about wanting to be sheriff. And county commissioner. And state senator. And member of Congress. Tuesday's speakers spoke on a range of issues, but many of the questions dealt with: Will you pay attention to us and the issues we need help with after you've been elected. If ... Continue Reading →
Candidate Amelia Stinson-Wesley
Amelia Stinson-Wesley was among the candidates in the May primaries who spoke today at the Forum. Stinson-Wesley is among the candidates in a May 3 special election that will fill the unexpired term in the N.C. Senate that was created by the resignation of Dan Clodfelter to become Charlotte's ... Continue Reading →