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Columns
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Citizen
Feb 24, 2016
Parting Shots: A Column Ends, But the Struggle Continues
By Bob Geary
Behold the final Citizen—and Bob didn’t even get to write about roundabouts
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Columns
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Citizen
Feb 17, 2016
Do You Miss the Public Option Yet?
By Bob Geary
Obamacare’s problem is its fealty to the insurance industry
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Citizen
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Obamacare
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Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina
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Hillary Clinton
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Bernie Sanders
Columns
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Citizen
Feb 10, 2016
Why Wake County Needs to Take the School Bond to Voters
By Bob Geary
Skirting a referendum won’t help pass a transit tax
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Citizen
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Wake County
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Sig Hutchinson
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Jessica Holmes
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transit
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schools
Columns
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Citizen
Feb 3, 2016
Why Is Duke Energy Pushing to Make Nuclear “Clean”?
By Bob Geary
Hint: It’ll fatten Duke’s wallets.
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Duke Energy
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clean energy
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solar
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wind
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nuclear
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power
Columns
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Citizen
Jan 27, 2016
Bernie Sanders’ political revolution is only impossible if you don’t believe
By Bob Geary
It’s not unrealistic to want to overthrow the powers that be. It’s necessary.
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Bernie Sanders
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campaign
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Hillary Clinton
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Iowa caucuses
Columns
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Citizen
Jan 20, 2016
Raleigh: No longer terrible to the homeless
By Bob Geary
Not long ago, the city threatened to arrest people who fed the needy. The times are changing, thankfully.
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homeless
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Raleigh
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Oak City Outreach Center
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Shana Overdorf
Columns
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Citizen
Jan 13, 2016
When work is done by robots, what will happen to workers?
By Bob Geary
Creating a viable economy in the coming age of machines
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Bill Clinton
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Ronald Reagan
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droids
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Martin Ford
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Carl Benedikt Frey
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Michael Osborne
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machines
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workers
Columns
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Citizen
Jan 6, 2016
White people problem: To succeed, progressives need to convince poor whites to vote in their own self-interest
By Bob Geary
White voters control Congress. Nothing can happen without Congress. Ergo, progressives need to sway rural whites.
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north carolina
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donald trump
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hillary clinton
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bernie sanders
Columns
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Citizen
Dec 30, 2015
Prediction: Gov. McCrory is toast
By Bob Geary
His scandals and overall fecklessness will be his undoing
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Pat McCrory
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Roy Cooper
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Ken Spaulding
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Graeme Keith
Columns
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Citizen
Dec 23, 2015
Maybe 2015 wasn’t so terrible after all
By Bob Geary
Raleigh and Wake County governments did some pretty great stuff. The Legislature, on the other hand…
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wake county
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transit
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affordable housing
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raleigh
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Columns
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Citizen
Dec 16, 2015
Southeast Raleigh teenagers help out special-needs kids, and it makes us feel all warm inside
By Bob Geary
Enloe High students raise more than $100,000 for Learning Together
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Enloe High School
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Learning Together
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Southeast Raleigh
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Nell Barnes
Columns
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Citizen
Dec 9, 2015
Donald Trump’s Raleigh rally got ugly (and violent)
By Bob Geary
A protester says one of Trump’s fans cold-cocked her. Given the rhetoric, this isn’t entirely surprising.
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Donald Trump
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Dorton Arena
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Republicans
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Raleigh
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Columns
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Citizen
Dec 2, 2015
Wake leaders hatch a plan to keep the county’s schools from resegregating
By Bob Geary
Affordable housing and transit will be key components
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wake county board of education
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matt calabria
Columns
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Citizen
Nov 25, 2015
Why climate change is more perilous to our national security than Syrian refugees
By Bob Geary
We're freaking out over the wrong thing
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N.C. Democratic Party
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Roy Cooper
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Pat McCrory
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ISIS
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Al Qaeda
Columns
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Citizen
Nov 18, 2015
If Raleigh wants to be a world-class city, it needs planning, personality and architects.
By Bob Geary
At CAM Raleigh, renowned architectural critic Paul Goldberger gives us principles—planning, design standards and some moxies—for fixing the city's design blah.
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Raleigh
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Paul Goldberger
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Columns
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Citizen
Nov 11, 2015
A primer on the all-important election year to come
By Bob Geary
The road to the White House—not to mention the governor’s mansion and the U.S. Senate—runs through the Triangle.
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Pat McCrory
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Roy Cooper
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General Assembly
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Wake County
Columns
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Citizen
Nov 4, 2015
A real American hero, charged with espionage
By Bob Geary
John Kiriakou exposed the CIA’s torture program—and paid the price for it
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CIA
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John Kiriakou
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NC Stop Torture Now
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Bush administration
Columns
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Citizen
Oct 28, 2015
Do black candidates matter to North Carolina Democrats?
By Bob Geary
The party establishment is pretending African-American challengers don’t exist
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Citizen
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Ken Spaulding
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Roy Cooper
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Deborah Ross
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Chris Rey
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NC Senate
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NC Governor
Columns
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Citizen
Oct 21, 2015
Are Raleigh’s empty promises on affordable housing a thing of the past?
By Bob Geary
The city’s got an ambitious new plan. Will it be enough?
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Citizen
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Larry Jarvis
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Downtown Raleigh
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affordable housing
Columns
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Citizen
Oct 14, 2015
How to do well while still doing good
By Bob Geary
Newly forged B corporations may save us from ourselves
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B corporations
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Redwoods
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Walmart
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Volkswagon
Columns
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Citizen
Oct 7, 2015
How Raleigh’s election was hijacked by questions of vibrancy
By Bob Geary
It wasn’t really about beer
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drunktown
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Raleigh
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elections
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Mary-Ann Baldwin
Columns
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Citizen
Sep 30, 2015
Why is Raleigh rushing a rezoning vote before the next City Council is seated?
By Bob Geary
Five lame ducks could tip the scales in favor of developers
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Raleigh
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Unified Development Ordinance
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Russ Stephenson
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municipal elections
Columns
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Citizen
Sep 23, 2015
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright and America’s racist cake
By Bob Geary
President Obama’s former pastor came to Chapel Hill to talk about our country’s original sin
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright
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racism
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Chapel Hill
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President Obama
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Michelle Obama
Columns
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Citizen
Sep 9, 2015
Hope you enjoyed your Capitalist Day!
By Bob Geary
In a world run by stock markets, Labor Day feels so 20th century
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Labor Day
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dow jones industrial average
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minimum wage
Columns
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Citizen
Sep 2, 2015
North Carolina’s Medicaid system is working just fine. Republicans want to “reform” it anyway.
By Bob Geary
By “reform,” they mean “privatization”—i.e., putting patient care under insurance companies’ control
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CCNC
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Medicaid
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health care
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North Carolina General Assembly
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