Ken Kurson, Author at Nevada Globe

Nevada ranks second-to-last in new survey of election integrity

December 14, 2021 9:31 amDecember 24, 2021 7:21 am

With two statewide races expected to be closely followed across the nation, and all four congressional seats up for grabs next November, a new “Election Integrity Scorecard” released today places the state 50 out of 51, ahead of only Hawaii. Heritage.org has created a brand new scorecard, released today, that...

Cortez Masto Featured by New Site Targeting ‘Schumer Democrats’

December 9, 2021 8:15 amDecember 9, 2021 8:57 am

Midterm elections ordinarily favor the party that does not control the presidency. That’s especially true in a president’s first term, as was seen during the Republican waves of 1994 and 2010. George W. Bush didn’t suffer similar setbacks in 2002, as the nation still reeled from the attacks of Sept....

Tuesday’s Elections Sound Dire Alarm Bells in Nevada

November 4, 2021 2:24 pmNovember 10, 2021 5:23 am

Last week, The Nevada Globe wrote that Democrats in the state have begun to fret about the effects Joe Biden‘s low approval numbers would have on their own races. Tuesday’s election prove that worry is well founded. Obviously, elections are multi-faceted events. And things to change in a week, let...

Plummeting Biden Approval Numbers Sparking Worry in Nevada Democrats

October 31, 2021 1:10 pmNovember 3, 2021 6:34 am

Joe Biden’s approval numbers have been falling so far and so quickly that Democratic candidates are beginning to distance themselves from the president. In Virginia, for example, Terry McAuliffe has repeatedly declined to mention Biden, who won the state 54-44 just a year ago, according to the New York Times....

Colin Powell, 1937-2021

October 18, 2021 6:15 amApril 3, 2022 8:16 am

I first met Colin Powell in 2003. I was working for Rudy Giuliani and we did a lot of writing together. Rudy was asked by President Bush to represent the United States at the first ever meeting convened in Europe to address the spiraling amount of antisemitism there in the wake...

Michael McDonald Overwhelmingly Re-Elected Chairman of NVGOP

October 16, 2021 6:01 pmApril 3, 2022 8:15 am

Michael McDonald, the longstanding chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, was re-elected to his post with a commanding 80% of the votes during this afternoon’s party convention in Winnemucca. According to early reports, McDonald earned support from 305 party voters compared to Michael Jack with 39 votes. McDonald’s incumbent vice...

Cortez Masto Courts Supporters of Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe

October 14, 2021 12:28 pmApril 3, 2022 8:15 am

The Nevada Globe has existed for 10 days now and thus far has enjoyed zero success in getting someone from Catherine Cortez Masto to respond to any of our calls and emails. Not even a brusque “no comment.” We’re starting to get a complex — *sniff!* Our calls have been...