Jan. 7, 2025 Under the C.W. Williams Community Health Center umbrella are an increasing number of professional medical services that are available to underserved residents to Mecklenburg and nearby communities. To spread that word, Jennifer Fuentes, executive assistant to CEO Debra Weeks, presented ... Continue Reading →
Happy Holidays!
Dec. 17, 2024 The image below shows the questions asked by Natheley McElrath during the Take a Gift game. She said she has used the same questions every year for 5 or more years, and yet none of longtime Forum participants answered all the questions correctly. The number of questions ... Continue Reading →
To your health: Advice from a diabetes educator
Dec. 10, 2024 Years in medical facilities helped Keisha Lewis see a need for diabetes education. She brought to the Forum today some of what she's learned, and shares with others through her private consultancy. Lewis's contact info is on the second-last slide below. Below the video from this ... Continue Reading →
Rebuilding city’s tree canopy
Dec. 3, 2024 Three staff members from Trees Charlotte this morning explored what a city known for its trees might should be doing to plant more trees, even as it is attracting new residents whose new houses and roads and workplaces destroy the very trees that helped attract the new ... Continue Reading →
Precinct organizing is #1, advocate of accountability concludes
Nov. 17, 2024 Journalist Ken Koontz says that, about eight years ago, he saw a need for some way that citizens could hold their elected officials publicly accountable for the promises they make. He wrote a draft of how a "We The People Alliance" could issue letter grades, "A" through "F," as a ... Continue Reading →
Financial challenges facing NC child care
Nov. 14, 2024 COVID-era federal financing allowed many child care centers that were in danger of closing to remain open so parents of young children could continue to work. The federal funds, which were a one-time appropriation, will be exhausted in Decembe Another report suggests that ... Continue Reading →
Panel to explore plan to hold officeholders accountable
Nov. 13, 2024 Longtime journalist and community activist Ken Koontz announced details of a presentation scheduled at the Forum next Tuesday, Nov. 19. He offered these details in advance so that participants, both in the Belmont Center meeting room and online, would be able to read about the ... Continue Reading →
Discerning a path toward higher voter turnout
Nov. 12, 2024 Monifa Drayton worked in leadership positions, and more recently opened a coaching and leadership consulting firm. She opened her Forum presentation by saying she was unable to comment on her resignation last week as executive director of the Mecklenburg Democratic Party. But in ... Continue Reading →
ELECTION 2024
First published Nov. 5, 2024; Source: N.C. Board of Elections THE MECKLENBURG BALLOT US PRESIDENT (VOTE FOR 1) Precincts Reported: 195 of 195 View Contest Details NAME ON BALLOT PARTY BALLOT COUNT PERCENT Kamala D. ... Continue Reading →
Lofton, Sidman offer highlights of their quest for NC House seats
Oct. 29, 2024 The Forum focused Tuesday on N.C. House Districts 104 and 105. The Nov. 5 ballot for those two seats each includes one Democrat and one Republican. The session might have illuminated party differences on public policy questions that are debated in the N.C. General Assembly. But it was ... Continue Reading →
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