May 5, 2015 Warren Cooksey and Jean Leier are staff. They tread carefully around all policy issues. They just outlined the rationale and plans for construction and operation of toll lanes in Interstate 77 from Mooresville to Charlotte. The previous evening, the Town of Cornelius had issued a ... Continue Reading →
Charlotte’s city budget: A primer
May 5, 2015 City staffer Kim Eagle walked the Forum through Manager Ron Carlee's budget proposal on Tuesday. Three City Council members chimed in along the way. The message seemed to be: Shared pain in a year when revenue expectations are down and some costs are rising. Loading garbage ... Continue Reading →
Video of ‘A Dream Again Deferred?’
May 5, 2015 It was billed as a commemoration of Swann v. Mecklenburg, the court case brought by Julius Chambers that led the U.S. Supreme Court in a Charlotte case to approve the use of mandatory busing to overcome the effects of segregation mandated by local law. But the room May 5 was filled ... Continue Reading →
4 commissioners address county topics
April 28, 2015 No, said Pat Cotham, she did not go to Raleigh to lobby legislators to rewrite election laws for county commissioners. Yes, said Trevor Fuller, the task force on social mobility will find a way to involve everyone who wants to be a part of that study. And so it went. The Forum ... Continue Reading →
Observer article on C.W. Williams Community Health Center
April 27, 2015 The print edition of the Charlotte Observer carried a report this morning on C.W. Williams Community Health Center. If an online version emerges, a link to it will be placed here. ... Continue Reading →
Sickle Cell: Assisting patients while raising awareness
April 21, 2015 Four health care advocates made the case at the Forum today for greater awareness of sickle cell disease, a genetically transmitted disease that causes potentially life-threatening complications among its predominantly African-American victims. About 800 adults and children in ... Continue Reading →
Garbage fee vs property tax: Most people will pay less
April 21, 2015 At-large Charlotte City Council member Vi Lyles rose at the end of the Forum today to explain how council members are looking at a proposal to eliminate the garbage collection fee and raise property taxes by the same amount: For people who own homes valued at less than $330,000 or ... Continue Reading →
The 2015-2016 CMS Budget: Background materials
Page initiated April 16, 2015 Here are links to material shared with the Forum on the 2015-2016 CMS budget proposed by Supt. Ann Clark and subsequent Board consideration of the subject. If you would like material considered for listing in this archive, e-mail it to the Forum. CMS materials 4-23 ... Continue Reading →
Sarah Stevenson receives J.C. Smith Arch of Triumph award
April 14, 2015 John Powell and Carlenia Ivory joined forces to describe Saturday's Johnson C. Smith University Gala at the Convention Center, where Sarah Stevenson received an Arch of Triumph award given to the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum. Their comments are ... Continue Reading →
Ending homelessness: Provide shelter first, then support services
April 14, 2015 It's one of those Duh moments: Are there people who are homeless? Well, let's find them a home. Then we won't have a homeless problem. Such is the simple but numbingly difficult mission of Housing First, a coalition of Charlotte-based people, agencies and corporations that ... Continue Reading →
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