– Page initiated Feb. 13, 2017 Joel Ford announced in December 2016 an exploratory committee for a possible candidacy for Charlotte Mayor. In March he announced he would be a candidate. Below are video or audio files of statements made by the candidate or surrogates at the Forum during the 2017 ... Continue Reading →
Allison makes case for more school choice for low-income parents
Feb. 7, 2017 Darrell Allison is as complicated a man as the school choice subject he espouses. He advocates for state-funded vouchers that help parents send their children to private schools. His own children are enrolled in Wake County Public Schools. He wants every parent to know their ... Continue Reading →
Open Forum focuses on officer-involved shooting, funding priorities
Jan. 31, 2017 It began as an Open Forum. But Sarah Stevenson had asked Willie Ratchford to bring a police official to discuss a recent officer-involved fatal shooting on Albemarle Road. So Ratchford addressed some of the issues that have already emerged, including the position taken by some young ... Continue Reading →
Carter celebrates JCSU’s success, worries over U.S. future
Jan. 24, 2017 It was something of a victory lap for Ron Carter, whose time in the presidency of Johnson C. Smith University may, he said, be extended a few months past his announced June departure. Forum leaders prepared an elaborate resolution of thanks for his work both at the university and ... Continue Reading →
Nakisa Glover on community engagement
Jan. 17, 2017 Nakisa Glover presented this morning about community engagement: about her work with national and local groups, about how best to take issues to the people, about her struggle to understand how to present the need for community action that addresses all the seemingly unrelated ... Continue Reading →
Post Foundation explains its Black Lives Matter Charlotte initiative
Jan. 10, 2017 Tiffany Capers' day job is at Teach for America. She appeared Tuesday at the Forum as a board member of the Charlotte Post Foundation, a group that has been holding programs in the community under the banner "Black Lives Matter Charlotte." In the video below of her presentation, ... Continue Reading →
Incoming CMS superintendent introduces himself
Jan. 10, 2017 CMS Board of Education Chairperson Mary McCray brought oncoming CMS Supt. Dr. Clayton Wilcox to the Forum this morning, where she introduced him and then he offered some words about himself. As Observer reporter Ann Doss Helms noticed, instead of immediately departing after his ... Continue Reading →
Residents seek appointment to City Council District 5
Jan. 3, 2017 At least six residents of Charlotte District 5 have offered themselves for appointment to the unexpired term of John Autry, who resigned to take his seat in the N.C. General Assembly. A number of the candidates have sent materials to the Forum about their candidates. The dates and ... Continue Reading →
Carter: Let retirees job-share to free up young people to mentor in schools
Jan. 3, 2017 During this morning's announcements, former City Council member Nancy Carter made this suggestion on how to free up more young people to mentor in schools. Click on the video to start it. ... Continue Reading →
Forum talks about racial divide, police-community relations
Jan. 3, 2017 Near the end of today's Forum, Willie Ratchford had participants look out the meeting room door. They could verify, he said, that the world had not come to an end because they had talked about race and police-community relations issues. Indeed, the longtime head of ... Continue Reading →
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