This year’s failed LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination effort was among the questions asked of voters in a Charlotte Observer poll — and the responses highlight and confirm the contention and division we saw over the effort earlier this year.
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Representatives of three LGBT advocacy groups announced their endorsements of City Council candidates at a press conference Wednesday morning, throwing their weight — and money — behind four at-large Democratic candidates and several candidates in contested district races.
Three LGBT advocacy groups will launch a new electoral campaign in Charlotte at a joint press conference on Wednesday morning. Leaders with the effort say they’re confident they’ll be able to turn out the support and votes to sway this year’s Charlotte City Council election — all in the aftermath of March’s failed LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance vote.
Note to readers: The commentary that follows below was originally published at QNotes on Aug. 19. Per the instruction of publisher Jim Yarbrough, it was unpublished from QNotes’ website on Aug. 23. I have re-published it here. Though the commentary was clearly labeled as commentary and a personal reflection — adequately distinguishing it from news […]
“CHARLOTTE SUCKS” Of course, not really. But let me explain. That phrase — scrawled into a cement sidewalk along Rozelles Ferry Rd. long ago when it was first poured — immediately jumped out at me when I saw it. I wasn’t having the best of days. It was a Sunday, more than a week after […]
Dr. Michael Brown, a rightwing religious leader from the Charlotte, N.C., area, delivered a lengthy response to Newsweek‘s recent commentary on the Bible by Kurt Eichenwald, entitled, “The Bible — So Misunderstood it’s a Sin.” Brown, who is most known locally for his opposition to LGBT equality initiatives and his protests of local LGBT events, […]
Do journalists and news outlets have a responsibility to include information about an institution’s extremist discriminatory policies when writing about them? I think so. And I think it’s doubly important when news outlets write on schools that have extremist, discriminate policies. But in Charlotte, while one puff piece about a local Christian school heaped plenty […]
On Thursday evening, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Pat Cotham shared on Facebook a hand-drawn map analyzing, by precinct, the results of the at-large commissioner election earlier this month. It’s just one simple map. But it contains several stories, each of a divided Mecklenburg County. Electoral divide The shared map comes as debates heat up over who […]
“I’ve been listening hard and can tell you with authority that I never hear the following phrases uttered in Charlotte,” Charlotte Observer columnist Mark Washburn wrote in July, before proceeding with his list of hilarious snippets very truly never said in Charlotte. Washburn followed up with a second list of 20 more “said no one […]
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The Weekly Wrap — the most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. This edition of the weekly wrap will be brief, for more than obvious reasons. Simpler sometimes is better (and, boy, doesn’t it help when I’m still slammed covering all […]
The Weekly Wrap — the most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. 1. N.C. voter suppression law partly reversed The biggest political story, by far, this week was the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to reverse parts of North Carolina’s far-reaching voter […]
The Weekly Wrap. The most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. 1. Scotland votes More than 3 million people voted last week in Scotland’s independence referendum. Officials said it was a record turnout of more than 84 percent of registered voters. In total, […]
The Weekly Wrap. The most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. (ICYMI: Yesterday’s post, “Back to the blog and recommitting to self”) 1. Mind Blow: No one has legal authority over the Union Jack? I’m an American. Born here. Bred here. Will probably […]