Kevin Johnson

Panthers precluded from Ford Park play

Hire local staff for the Ford Park Entertainment Complex or get a new management team for the taxpayer-funded venue, Beaumont ISD Trustee Stacey Lewis Jr. advised Jefferson County Commissioners when he showed up to publicly speak on the Beaumont Panthers basketball team getting booted from the...

Editorial: Delusions of grandeur mix with just plain delusions

In August 2020, when The Examiner revealed a year-long deal worked out among Jefferson County Commissioners to sell the Ford Park Entertainment Complex to a wanna-be casino owner out of Port Arthur without even knowing the appraised value of the public commodity was contrary to Texas law, that...

Buyer reneges on $22 million county deal

Yet another deadline has come and gone – the last, according to Jefferson County Attorney Kathleen Kennedy – in the long lingering contract sale of the county-owned Ford Park Entertainment Complex.

Ford Park sale at stalemate as county to meet with attorney...again

Still waiting for the deal to close nearly a year later on the sale of Jefferson County’s Ford Park Entertainment Complex, county commissioners and Judge Jeff Branick are set to meet Oct. 26 – again – regarding the next step in a business transaction that has lingered more than seven months past...