Ken Larsen's website - Politics

 

Chapel Hill (North Carolina)

• Chapel Hill development issues in a nutshell
• Definition of "Urban Growth Machine"

• The cost of growth

• Affordable housing

• Stormwater/flooding

• Traffic

• UNC and Chapel Hill politics

• Parking

• Briarcliff flood action items

• Global warming:  the root cause is exploding world population

• Maps of Chapel Hill

• Wegmans issue

• Chapel Hill politics
• Stormwater/flooding issues in Chapel Hill
• Ken Larsen's assessment of Durham-Orange County Light Rail project (DOLRT)
• More DOLRT issues (4 minute video)
• Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Collector Street Plan
• Awesome MLK-like speech delivered by Dr. Richard Watkins on MLK Day in 2017
• Political and legal impediments that adversely affect communities
• Relationship between Ken's website and CHALT

Orange County (North Carolina)

• Candidate endorsement criteria

• Campaign advice for local politicians

• Advice for voters

North Carolina

• On a state level, in 2013 North Carolina Republicans have brought shame to North Carolina.

United States

• Environment and Politics

• Ken's views on U.S. politics

• U.S. Politics simplified - the difference between Democrats and Republicans in a simple table format

• What is a Republican?

• Donald Trump is bad for the U.S.  (my 2016 opinion)

• My 2018 opinion of Donald Trump

• What is a Democrat?

• Democrats need to appeal to rural voters

• Do we need a Canadian Border wall?  [This shows the absurdity of border walls.]

• Brainwashing

• "Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans" (January 2, 2018)

• Propaganda Tactics of Right Wing Conservatives

• Propaganda tactics of Fox News

• Tax exempt status of the NRA should be revoked

• Houston flooding (August 2017)

• Veto overrides in state legislatures (from Ballotpedia)

• "Why Hurricane Irma Could Hurt, a Lot:  Much Lies in Harm's Way" New York Times Sept 7, 2017

Europe

• Some differences between Germany and the U.S. as far as politics is concerned
• Some differences between Norway and the U.S. as far as politics is concerned

Ken's views on religion

 

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