Rob Christensen
Christensen: Here lies NC tax reform; born: 2012, died: 2013
Tax reform in North Carolina died last week. RIP. No one will offer any prayers for the dead or send flowers. Some may not even admit there is a corpse in the room.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: Zachary oversaw NC growth
The passing of former Raleigh City Manager L.P. Zachary last week at age 91 caused me to reflect on the incredible transformation of North Carolina’s cities since he started as city manager in 1973 – the same year I started covering City Hall.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: Moral Monday protesters may not sway GOP
Although they did not call it Moral Monday, protesters showed up at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison in 2011 to oppose the rightward lurch of state government there.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: 5 troubling ideas for NC democracy
Let us put aside the major issues that divide North Carolina politics – taxes, the size of government, public vs. private education, abortion, guns, funding for the University of North Carolina system, Medicaid, health care, even voter ID.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
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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ROB CHRISTENSEN
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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ROB CHRISTENSEN
Christensen: Rural parts of NC lose out in GOP budget
Here is government logic at work.
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ROB CHRISTENSEN
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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ROB CHRISTENSEN
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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ROB CHRISTENSEN
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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