– 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 →
Four who are making a difference in Charlotte community groups
March 14, 2017 Four women making a difference in Charlotte-area community-focused organizations shared the front table this morning. Speakers were Colette Forrest, president, Black Political Caucus; Carolyn Logan, president, Black Women’s Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg; Kerry Miller, president, ... Continue Reading →
Election 2017: Kris Chambers Woodruff
– Page initiated March 7, 2017 Kris Chambers Woodruff 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. March 7, ... Continue Reading →
Election 2017: Priscilla Johnson
– Page initiated March 7, 2017 Priscilla Johnson is a candidate for Charlotte City Council District 4. 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. May 2, 2017 April 25, ... Continue Reading →
Minority Contracting 101: Rachelle Latimer offers some pointers
March 7, 2017 Rachelle Latimer is president and chief diversity officer for TRS&I Group, Inc., consultants on meeting equal opportunity program requirements. The firm was recently hired to work with Sugar Creek Construction, one of the prime partners in the current construction of 26 miles of ... Continue Reading →
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