Rob Christensen
Christensen: Tillis' Senate push gets Rove blessing
Karl Rove, the chief strategist for Bush, has recruited the past two Republican senators from North Carolina. Now he’s putting his considerable backing behind Thom Tillis.
Rob Christensen
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: Berger is the new Basnight
Here is the fallout from North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger’s decision to forgo a challenge to Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan next year. It cements Berger’s role as the new Marc Basnight, the most powerful figure in state government. And it sets up a classic insider/outsider ...
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: The ambassador and the general
In looking at the administration of North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, consider the tale of the ambassador and the general. The departments run by former ambassador Aldona Wos and retired Army Brig. Gen. Tony Tata have two different reputations.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: Professionalism intact at State Board of Elections
It is usually not a good sign when Rachel Maddow, the liberal MSNBC TV host, broadcasts from your town, but that is what she did recently from Elizabeth City.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: The truth behind 10 myths about North Carolina
A lot of things you hear about North Carolina are based on misconceptions.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: GOP says McCrory miserly with jobs
Gov. Pat McCrory has been taking a lot of heat lately for two young campaign aides getting generous salaries for top DHHS jobs, but the buzz in Republican circles is that McCrory has been pretty miserly when it comes to rewarding his political backers.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: In pursuit of everyone's happiness
Staff columnist Rob Christensen thought an 1890s-era vacation this summer seemed just the ticket to recover from the past year. Along the way, he got a refresher course on who in America is happy - and why.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: College students will have to work harder to vote in N.C.
Voter bill signed by Gov. Pat McCrory offers political lesson to young voters.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: Low taxes, little government, ridicule – NC has seen it before
We have seen this before in North Carolina – the reign of the green-eyeshaded men who thought low taxes trumped all, and if there were any coins left in the till at the end of the day they would throw it into the education pot.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: ‘The North Carolina way’ takes a sharp right turn
Not since the 1930s, when North Carolina was staggered by the Great Depression, has a legislature performed such radical surgery on the state’s body politic. This legislature moved to a flat tax and away from a graduated income tax first enacted in 1921, cut unemployment benefits to 1951 ...
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: Sen. Berger drinks from GOP's grail on economic solutions
Senate leader Phil Berger and I have gotten above our upbringin'. Both of us are sons of the great American working class - the people who built this country and fought its wars, but who have seen hard times in recent years as plants were shuttered. But we don't agree how to help those folks.
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