July 13, 2021 From her Government Center office, County Manager Dena Diorio today reported on a wide variety of recent initiatives and successes reshaping county services in Mecklenburg. Diorio prepared comments about three issues identified by the Forum: how the county is serving homeless ... Continue Reading →
Mediation ends latest County-CMS skirmish
July 8, 2021 The latest county-CMS funding dispute came to an end June 24 with a mediated settlement that was approved by County Commissioners July 8. County and CMS statements on the subject, and the text of the agreement, are below. No children learned a thing from the flap, but all staff and ... Continue Reading →
Census 2020: What we know, what’s to come
June 29, 2021 Rebecca Tippett was playing with a good hand, but with some cards missing. An expert in all things Census, and founding director of Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Tippett's slides highlighted the nearly 9.5% growth registered in the ... Continue Reading →
Healthy food, healthy futures
June 22, 2021 Vivian Stuart came out of retirement to boost the fortunes of the Rosa Parks Farmers Market. Reggie Singleton has his day job at the county's Health Department, but for nearly 30 years he has built The Males Place, a mentoring project working with regular kids and sowing the seeds ... Continue Reading →
Supporting housing initiatives, business development
June 15, 2021 Ralphine Caldwell opened the Charlotte office of a national nonprofit in 2019, got settled, and then of course had to deal with a pandemic. It's been a bumpy road for Caldwell and her Charlotte staff of four. This morning, the executive director of the Charlotte office of Local ... Continue Reading →
Back to in-person Forums? Time will tell
June 13, 2021 To say that Tuesday Forum facilitators have been protective of everyone's health in the age of Covid-19 might be an understatement. And while the City of Charlotte's policies on use of its facilities may ultimately control the timing of the Forum's return to the Belmont Center ... Continue Reading →
Happy 95th, Thelma McKoy
June 8, 2021 The Forum marks the upcoming 95th birthday of Thelma N. McKoy of Charlotte, “one of Charlotte's pioneers and historians that originally brought to Charlotte the Juneteenth event celebration,” writes Garcia Nelson. Maria Macon recalls that McKoy “started small, hosting Juneteenth in ... Continue Reading →
Steering justice through Covid waters
June 8, 2021 For decades, Mecklenburg District Attorneys have bemoaned a lack of financial resources to deal with the state's largest court jurisdiction. On top of that, current DA Spencer Merriweather and the system that he administers has had to adjust to the COVID-19 lockdown. Today, even as the ... Continue Reading →
How knocking on doors boosted Census accuracy
May 25, 2021 It was six months from Census deadline, and participation had risen to just over half the number of people that demographers believed actually live in Mecklenburg County. Literally millions of federal dollars would be lost in the future if the count fell short and Mecklenburg groups ... Continue Reading →
Retired superintendent joins Diorio in critique of CMS leadership
James F. Pughsley served as CMS superintendent from 2002 to 2005. He submitted this piece to The Charlotte Observer under the headline, "In Times of Crisis: Leadership for Results." By Dr. James L. Pughsley, CMS Superintendent (Ret.) Effective leadership and execution, not the lack of funding, ... Continue Reading →
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