As much as I hate the thought of my sainted mother working here, $40 million sounds like a lot of money:
Gov. Mike Easley’s budget proposal includes $40.4 million for a new capital visitor’s center.
The existing visitor’s center, isn’t a center at all, David Bracken reports. It’s a reception desk hidden in a corner of the N.C. Museum of History’s lobby.
“It’s been so embarrassing for us when people walk in and say, ‘Is this the visitor center?'” said Jackie Parrish, the center’s acting director. “First they have to find us, and then they have to find a parking space. They are fit to be tied when they get in here.”
Mom says the two questions she hears most are ‘Where’s a good place to live?’ and ‘Where’s a good place to eat?’
