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01/15/2005

Hugh Jackson's CityLife columns and assorted Gleaner sightings in the news

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

Gleaner in the news

Hugh Jackson commentaries outside the Gleaner

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 can still be viewed at CityLife's site, for now, anyway, and they're linked here, mostly to appease the author's vanity but also in support of the general proposition that Las Vegas has grown much, much more than it's changed.

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

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