Ken Kurson, Author at California Globe

California Globe Hires Reporter Evan Symon

September 5, 2019 11:30 amSeptember 6, 2019 12:02 pm

California Globe has expanded its reporting reach with the announcement that it has hired experienced journalist Evan Symon to join its ranks as a full-time senior editor. Symon will report to the site’s editor in chief, longtime Sacramento journalist Katy...

Pacific Standard Magazine Abruptly Shuts Down

August 7, 2019 3:40 pmMarch 16, 2022 12:27 pm

The highly respected Santa Barbara-based social justice magazine Pacific Standard stunned its staff today with a sudden announcement that it is shutting down effective almost immediately. According to a wrenching post by editor in chief Nicholas Jackson, “We learned this...

Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project Hits Capitol

July 17, 2019 5:50 pmJuly 18, 2019 7:30 am

With the temperature reaching 95 and the legislature on break, things around the Capitol Building were moving even more slowly than usual today. But the dog days of summer didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of about 120 Latinx youngsters who came...

Shmuley Boteach Upbraided By Lawyer Over Ilhan Omar Photo

April 30, 2019 3:18 pmApril 30, 2019 8:30 pm

A Boston photographer named Jason Grow has made a legal claim against well-known Rabbi Shmuley Boteach over “unauthorized use of a photograph of Ilhan Omar, a recently-elected member of the United States House of Representatives.” According to the letter obtained...

Beto O’Rourke Addresses Enthusiastic But Smaller-Than-Expected Launch Crowd

March 31, 2019 3:12 pmApril 1, 2019 11:00 am

AUSTIN—Former congressman and current heartthrob Beto O’Rourke took the stage in front of the Capitol building over an hour and a half late. But if any of the several thousand people who endured an unexpectedly chilly early spring evening were...

Three Personal Interactions with the Media’s Darkest Two Years

March 26, 2019 12:20 pmMarch 16, 2022 12:26 pm

If you heard a primal scream emanating from 22nd Street yesterday, that was me reading the Vanity Fair headline “The Hard Truths and High Cost of the RussiaGate Scandal.” We have endured a ton of awful reporting over the last...

Cal State System Caves on Anti-Semitism Lawsuit

March 21, 2019 2:54 pmMarch 27, 2019 11:41 am

Jewish students throughout the California State University system can finally wear their yarmulkes in peace. In Spring 2016, San Francisco State University’s Hillel invited Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat to speak on campus. All hell broke loose. According to Hillel student...