Rick Henderson reports for Carolina Journal Online on the death of musician Randy Parton, namesake of one of North Carolina’s worst political boondoggles. Donald Bryson’s Daily Journal urges two critical…
Courtesy of the Gaston County Schools twitter account: @GastonSchool: Our educators are excited about the upcoming school year! Here are just a few photos of them learning new ideas at…
Yesterday, the Roanoke Rapids Theater auction closed. This is the theatre that was first called the Randy Parton Theater and that’s been a disaster from the word go. You probably remember…
View in your browser. I was struck this week when I came across two news stories virtually side-by-side. One was the story of the Randy Parton Theater — now called…
Figurative and literally, the N&O reports. City officials have approved electronic gaming as means of “taking a chunk out of the $1.7 million annual bill for the once ballyhooed venue.”…
Read Don Carrington’s reporting on the theatre fiasco here.
And then there’s this arrogance from the same article: Democrats said Republicans were lobbing criticism without offering solutions. “They are not up to the job of governing in a recession…
WRAL reports that the city council voted to sell the Roanoke Rapids Theater (aka Randy Parton Theater). Sale price: $12.5 million. Current city debt: $21.5 million. Taxpayer cost for the…
Attorneys for country singer Randy Parton want a lawsuit against him tried in N.C. business court. You can catch up on the background of the case here and follow legal…
Reports the AP: A man who orchestrated a deal to build a $21.5 million theater in Roanoke Rapids has been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. Rick Watson…
Roanoke Rapids residents will pay higher taxes, thanks to the Randy Parton Theatre fiasco. A lawsuit filed last week aims to help the town recover money lost because of the…
We’ll learn details this afternoon of the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law’s latest lawsuit. It alleges “a conspiracy by Randy Parton and others to fraudulently obtain public money to build…