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R.C. Soles Jr., longtime NC legislator who quietly dodged scandal, dies at age 86 Richard Stradling, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Feb. 6 RALEIGH R.C. Soles Jr., who represented his native Columbus County in the General Assembly for 42 years and became one of the state s top Democratic lawmakers before retiring after shooting a former legal client in the leg, has died at age 86. His death at a hospital in Loris, South Carolina, south of Tabor City, on Friday was announced by the Inman Ward Funeral Home and first reported by The News Reporter in Whiteville, the county seat where Soles practiced law for decades. ....
The Governor, the Pro-Team and the Pandemic Published January 27, 2021 Politics and the pandemic are inseparable in North Carolina. Last year’s gubernatorial election got caught up in Covid fever. This year, pandemic politics likely will spread to the legislature – and write the latest chapter in North Carolina’s eternal power struggle between governors and legislators. Senate President Pro-Tem Phil Berger says Governor Roy Cooper’s exercise of emergency powers in the pandemic “is inconsistent with what our system of government would expect.” Berger added, “I would like to see some changes.” Need I note that Berger is a Republican and Cooper is a Democrat? ....
Randy Parton, namesake of one of the worst boondoggles in recent N.C. political history, has died at age 67. The bass-playing younger brother of cultural icon Dolly Parton died of cancer, according to a statement from the Parton family. Randy Parton saddled state and local taxpayers with millions of dollars in debt from a performing arts center he arranged in 2005 with subsidies from a regional economic development partnership and money from other investors. Carolina Journal reported extensively on the project. The Randy Parton Theatre was a 35,000 square-foot, 1,500-seat music hall off Interstate 95 in Roanoke Rapids. Developers pitched the theater as the anchor of Carolina Crossroads, a planned 1,000-acre entertainment, retail, and lodging complex. ....
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