Dec. 13, 2022 Longtime Charlotte civic leader Mary Klenz donated the funds to make breakfast food for today's Forum as a remembrance of educator, school board member and Forum participant Richard McElrath, who died in 2020 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Cris Robinson donated her ... Continue Reading →
Tracking West End’s dirty air to leverage positive change
Dec. 13, 2022 Bisected by major Charlotte thruways and their particulate-spewing vehicle tailpipes. Home to polluting industries. Neighbor to a gravel quarry. Unprotected by local government for generations from the health effects of the unrelenting environmental onslaught. Daisha Wall, ... Continue Reading →
Perspective | Charity is splendid, public education necessary
Dec. 2, 2022; republished Dec. 7 By Ferrel Guillory, EducationNC The civic holidays and religious holy days that span from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day turn Americans’ attention to people in need. A glossary of phrases signifies the season: Angel Tree, Advent Giving Tree, Toys for Tots, Coats ... Continue Reading →
Building businesses: Seeing ways to work together
Dec. 6, 2022 The four presenters wore different hats, and were in a variety of economic sectors. The ventures that their business lives revolve around are in different phases of the business life cycle. But all seemed to share an interest in getting better through collaboration – not just among ... Continue Reading →
Hall defied the odds to lead a training center for construction trades
Nov. 29, 2022 Frances Hall grew up surrounded by the old ways. She grew up around people gainfully employed in the trades. They took her to job sites, taught her about reading, about blueprints, about the math so essential in construction. She experienced how important it was that one generation ... Continue Reading →
Through tears and hard work, triumph
Nov. 15, 2022 In a relatively short span of time, West Mecklenburg High School graduate Cheryse Terry gave birth, lost the woman who raised her, got a job, was laid off, and saw a house fire destroy most of the tangible links to her childhood. Out of that cauldron of hurt and hope and change came ... Continue Reading →
ELECTION RESULTS 2022
Nov. 8, 2022 The N.C. Board of Elections posts unofficial precinct returns as they are reported. View them here. Below are the unofficial Mecklenburg vote totals for candidates on the Nov. 8 Mecklenburg election ballot, as compiled by the Mecklenburg and N.C. Boards of Elections. Victors are ... Continue Reading →
NC Supreme Court decision in Leandro case
Nov. 4, 2022 The Nov. 8 election may make the decision moot in a matter of months, but for a day or more the N.C. Supreme Court has rejected objections to ordering the state to fund a previously agreed-to intervention to improve the educational opportunities in N.C. public schools throughout the ... Continue Reading →
3 gather to explain their races for N.C. House
Nov. 1, 2022 The final Forum conversation about the Nov. 8 general election offered three candidates an opportunity to state their positions, and outline their hopes, for a level of government that all three said gets too little attention from Mecklenburg voters. All 12 candidates in the six ... Continue Reading →
Forum marks Sarah Stevenson’s 97th
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