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01/15/2005

Hugh Jackson's CityLife columns and assorted other stuff

Hugh Jackson's "Damned Pundit" column in Las Vegas CityLife  --

Freelance 2008 Democratic Convention coverage

  • It's not really about Obama (CityLife) -- Can we spend at least a few moments on one of the best political speeches in the modern era
  • Energy policy makes strange bedfellows (Guardian) -- Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has become an advocate for renewable energy, and the Democrats' improbably ally.
  • Three's a crowd (CityLife)-- Going off message with the Clintons
  • Nevada's State of Nerves (Guardian) -- After backing Clinton in the state's caucus, Nevada's delegates anxious to unite behind Obama.
  • How the West might be won (Guardian) -- Issues such as gay marriage and gun control are losing traction in states like Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado.

Assorted older Hugh Jackson commentaries

From deep inside the vault: Minor Heresies

From, oh, 1998 until sometime in 2001, Hugh Jackson, Gleaner proprietor, wrote a column called Minor Heresies, first for something called the Las Vegas Business Press and then for a free weekly with sex ads in the back called Las Vegas CityLife. Most of those columns, like Jackson's career in print journalism, have vanished. A handful, however, somehow managed to escape oblivion:

Always looking on the bright side On Nevada's flirtation with energy deregulation; 6-13-01

Anti-baby Baby Bush Bush's first budget tried to cut programs for women and children, too; 5-24-01

Time to declare war on drug kingpins Drug company kingpins, that is; 5-17-01

Cojones-free scaredy cats on parade Cowardly city, county officials avoid tax debate; 5-10-01

100 days, school days, Doris Day, whatever Corporations shouldn't be treated like people because they aren't; 5-3-01

The world's most grown-up man, and friends Cheney, his 'native' Wyoming and nuclear waste; 4-26-01

Fools rush in Nevada's plan to hand over its power supply to the same crowd that was gouging California; 4-19-01

And how will you be paying for that? Bush and the credit card industry trying to gut bankruptcy laws (wonder how that worked out?); 4-12-01

Rock & Roll is dead Well-deserved hit piece on the Hard Rock, 3-29-01

Teachers like sex too Well, they do, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't pay them more; 3-22-01

Working Dick dead What if Cheney had a conscience? A fantasy piece; 3-16-01

Blown judgment The worst, most politically tawdry Nevada Supreme Court decision that nobody ever talked about; 3-8-01

Universities embrace old profession Whoring for corporate cash on campus; 2-15-01

Full speed ahead Edmund Burke, Frankenstein, Catholics, Gingrich, Florida--it's all here in a deadline-induced ramble; 12-14-00

You mean Bush is still president? Self-explanatory; 6-21-01

Smugsy takes a whackin' The Venerable Reid's big Jim Jeffords coup; 5-31-01

Running on empty Blasting Enron before blasting Enron was cool; 2-1-01

Circuitous, but holistic Why Alan Greenspan should be the nation's repository for nuclear waste and other deadline-driven observations, 1-17-01

Bonus: Pesky colonists at it again Extremely rare Business Press specimen incidentally preserved and accidentally recovered. It's on socially responsible investing; circa February, 1999

A haphazardly collected hit-and-miss inventory of your Gleaner in the news

01/15/2005 at 07:18 PM |

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