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Christensen: My mom’s amazing swan song

This is my first Mother’s Day without my mom, who passed away earlier this year of congestive heart failure. She died just a few days short of her 86th birthday.

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Christensen: Raleigh lawyer witnessed Watergate history

Raleigh attorney Gene Boyce was among the first of the Watergate investigators to learn that President Richard Nixon taped conversations in the White House.
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Christensen: Rural parts of NC lose out in GOP budget

Here is government logic at work.
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Christensen: Big-government conservatives ruling from Raleigh

I was sitting in a state House committee meeting the other day when the mayor of Sanford, a polite soft-spoken lady named Cornelia Olive, appeared hat in hand with a humble request.
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Christensen: GOP goes after the wrong kind of voter fraud

North Carolina has a long history of election fraud, although not the kind being debated in the halls of the legislature.
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Christensen: GOP settling down despite spate of off-the-wall bills

The popular narrative in recent days is that North Carolina's legislature had gone off the deep end. But maybe things are beginning to settle down.
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Drop dead: Is that the GOP’s message to Raleigh?

Governors and legislatures have long disagreed about land sales
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Christensen: Proposed Vance-Aycock site closures may hint at payback

Gov. Pat McCrory’s budget calls for closing the state historic sites which are the birthplaces of two former Democratic governors, citing poor attendance. But other sites draw even fewer visitors.
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Christensen: A budget an accountant would love

Gov. Pat McCrory spends his political capital on a budget that offers no legacy-making initiatives.
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Christensen: Legislature's mandate to roll back the years

For the first time in more than a century, North Carolina - long ruled by business-oriented moderates - has a conservative government, and it has come as quite a shock to some people.
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Dome: Campaign finance reports lag

The State Board of Elections is sending more than 150 letters to candidates, PACs and others that still need to file financial reports.

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