– Page initiated April 18, 2017 Eric Erickson is a candidate for Charlotte City Council District 2. Below are video or audio files of statements made by the candidate or surrogates at the Forum during the 2017 election cycle. To start a video, click on it. Aug. 8, ... Continue Reading →
YMCA, police plan ‘Summer of Opportunity 2017’
April 18, 2017 YMCA CEO Todd Tibbits this morning made a $150,000 appeal for community support for a summer program for youth aged 13-18. As photos of street protests in Charlotte and Ferguson and elsewhere lingered on the screen, Tibbits said the Y plans to open three Ys on Thursday, Friday and ... Continue Reading →
U.S. Rep. Alma Adams: ‘Trump-Don’t-Care’ bill will return
April 11, 2017 U.S Rep. Alma Adams, who represents the N.C. 12th District in Congress, spoke and took questions at the Forum today. Her presentation in the video below begins at minute 6:28. The Q&A follows at minute 24:19. ... Continue Reading →
County to re-dedicate a renovated West Charlotte Rec Center
April 6, 2017 Mecklenburg County officials invited all to a re-dedication of the West Charlotte Recreation Center on Wednesday, April 12 at 10 a.m. at the center, 2401 Kendall Drive. The Forum met weekly at the Rec Center from about 2003 through April 28, 2015. The Foum moved to Ivory Baker ... Continue Reading →
Election 2017: Gary Young
– Page initiated April 4, 2017 Gary Young is a candidate for Charlotte City Council District 5. Below are video or audio files of statements made by the candidate or surrogates at the Forum during the 2017 election cycle. To start a video, click on it. April 25, 2017 April 4, ... Continue Reading →
Ford on HB2 removal; defends compromise as strategy for achieving some progress
April 4, 2017 Sen. Joel Ford Tuesday passed out copies of the General Assembly's bill that erased HB2. And he defended the effort at compromise that allowed the bill on the controversial issue to become law. To start the video below, click on its ... Continue Reading →
Byers-Bailey: CMS likely won’t reconvert all westside K-8s
April 4, 2017 District 2 school board member Thelma Byers-Bailey said she did not have the votes to fully reverse the Great-Recession decision to create underfunded, unequal K-8 schools on the westside. But she predicted that money would be moved around within the upcoming school bond proposal ... Continue Reading →
Carbon tax advocates push – respectfully – for legislative action
April 4, 2017 Christy Kluesner and her husband Dean think a carbon tax will help preserve the Earth for generations to come. They portray themselves, and the Citizens' Climate Lobby they work through, as playing the long game to achieve a legislative solution that encourages movement away from all ... Continue Reading →
Sherrell Dorsey, leading in the tech space, focusing on action
March 28, 2017 Sherrell Dorsey is from Charlotte – and Seattle, and New York, and Connecticut. Like many of her fellow millennials, she appears to have had about nine jobs in the last seven years. She's moving! This morning she fired up another crowd, this one full of hardbitten longtime ... Continue Reading →
County manager update
March 21, 2017 Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio offered an update this morning on a variety of county issues. She ended with the Health Department imbroglio, mentioning that all women who had been tested for cervical cancer but not notified of test results have now been found. Her message to ... Continue Reading →
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