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

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

• John McCain was a prisoner of war? — Oh, well in that case, we should probably let him be president. 7-17-08
• John Ensign's big head — As our prettiest senator raises his Washington profile, he becomes more and more out of touch with Nevada. 7-3-08
• Democrats' 2008 strategy: Cowering in silent fear — If Democrats woke up one day in political control of the state, would it even matter? 6-19-08
• Stay the course — Just because the nation's worst governor is humiliated and disgraced, now is not the time for him to cut and run. 6-5-08
• Can't beat 'em — In another proud Nevada moment, the entire state declares itself powerless before the awesome might of the nation's wickedest governor. 5-22-08
• Allow me to respond — An open letter to Frank Fahrenkopf, president and CEO of the American Gambling, er, Gaming Association. 5-8-08
• Congressional candidate assures voters he's harmless — Democrat surrenders to GOP spin early in hopes of not offending anyone. 4-24-08
• Gambling addicts: Our forgotten heroes — Even in tough economic times, problem and pathological gamblers step up to the plate and do their part. 4-10-08
• And hey, let's be careful out there — Local authorities on pace to shatter single-year record for killing the citizenry. 3-27-08
• March of the minoritarians — Needlepoint, gardening, Wii -- whatever it is, won't someone please find Sheldon Adelson a new hobby? 3-13-08
• It's the Culinary, stupid — Las Vegas better hope the union's tarnished political profile doesn't diminish its economic clout. 2-28-08
• Psst, Mormons ... it's not about you — The fall of Willard Milton Romney. 2-14-08
• Economic depressant — With everyone stressing the need for a stimulus, Nevada goes in another direction. 1-31-08
• Not exactly what they had in mind — Can Nevada's Democratic Party survive Nevada's Democratic caucus? 1-17-08
• Local Republicans for dummies — A reference for the rest of us (2008 version). 01-03-08
• Rooting for the white male — John Edwards is a progressive and he's not apologizing for it. 12-20-07
• The 'socialized medicine' myth — Are conservatives deliberately lying, or just stupid? 12-06-07
• An ugly win — Did Nevada save Clinton and kill its caucus? 11-22-07
• Reid robs rubes — Nevada's senior senator coddles Big Mining and shortchanges his state. 11-08-07
• Not a Western thing — Presidential candidates have discovered people in Nevada are eerily similar to people in the rest of the country. 10-25-07

Gleaner in the news

• Face to Face with Jon Ralston (TV). 6-10-08
• DNC Chairman Governor Dean Announces Blogs Selected For 2008 Democratic National Convention 'State Blogger Corps, DNCC release, 5-14-08
• Nevada Governor wants his mansion back and his wife out, Associated Press, 5-7-08
• Face to Face with Jon Ralston (TV). 5-5-08
• Workhorse or stalking horse?, Las Vegas Sun, 4-20-08
• Ouch! Why this last week made being a Republican rough, Las Vegas Sun, 3-2-08
• Edwards' message: Louder this time, Las Vegas Sun, 1-18-08
• Showdown in Nevada: Unions face off over casino caucus sites, Democracy Now, 1-17-08
• Liberty Watch Hot and Not List, December 2007
• Jon Ralston speaks with a Democratic centrist beleaguered by bloggers but unbowed, 11-2-07
• Erin Neff: Democrats and the blogosphere, 9-27-07
• iPundits, Las Vegas CityLife, 9-23-07
• All quiet on the Western front, Politico, 7-7-07
• Reid once again whips up political world, Las Vegas Sun, 6-15-07
• Reid sets off firestorm with criticism of Pace, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 6-15-07
• Why do I have to pay taxes? Las Vegas CityLife, 4-12-07
• How Netroots Killed the Fox Debate, Politico, 3-13-07
• Democrats pressured to drop Fox News despite compromise, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 3-9-07
• Female power at Women's Summit, Las Vegas CityLife, 1-25-07
• Is it 2008 yet?, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 12-25-06
• Presidential politics get new venue, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 12-24-06
• Cheering on Tom, Las Vegas Sun, 12-3-2006
• Best of the Valley, Las Vegas CityLife, 11-16-06
• Best of the City, Las Vegas Life, November, 2006
• As polls how tightening race, Gibbons campaign finally comes to life, Las Vegas Review Journal, 7-28-05
• Gibbons reverses himself, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 7-24-06
• Vice is virtual for the online inclined, Los Angeles Times, 6-18-06
• Liberals log onto clout, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 6-10-06
• Caught in party politics, Las Vegas Sun, 4-29-06
• Political talk, Nevada Newsmakers (video link), 4-10-06
• Goodman: Donors await word on bid, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 3-17-06
• Blogging Blue Politics, Las Vegas Weekly, 2-23-06
• Six Questions About Harter, Las Vegas Weekly, 2-2-06
• On the State of the Union, KNPR, 2-1-06
• Blogospheric conditions: The Gleaner and Professional Wingnut Chuck Muth on KNPR, 1-4-06
• Blogs make 2005 a media year to remember, Las Vegas Business Press, 12-30-05
• Gibson not 'lite' on call to serve, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 12-12-05
• What's mine, Reno News and Review, 12-8-05
• Bloggers poised to be player's on state's campaign landscape, Reno Gazette Journal, 11-20-05
• Reid's bold tactic surprises Washington, not Nevada, Reno Gazette Journal, 11-6-05
• Interview on KNPR's State of Nevada (audio link), 10-18-05
• Boss Vegas, Denver Post, 10-16-05
• Reid sees darker side of blog world, LV Review=Journal, 10-10-05
• All the News That's Fit to Click, CityLife 10-7-05
• Democrats have designs on state's GOP stronghold, Reno Gazette-Journal 8-28-05
• It won't be pretty. It might be cutthroat. It'll surely be fun. (Everything You Need To Know About the Next Governor's Race) Las Vegas Weekly 8-18-05
• Knappster, CityLife 7-28-05
• Campaign contributions: Rogers aided Democrats, Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-20-05
• 777/666, CityLife 6-30-05

Hugh Jackson commentaries outside the Gleaner

• Affordable housing: Corporate neighbors and corporate neighborhoods, KNPR, 3-27-06
• TV stations cashing in on democracy, KNPR, 3-7-06
• Fighting terrorism with Gold, KNPR, 2-22-06
• She's got guts, KNPR, 1-27-06
• Ensign's handicap, KNPR, 1-11-06
• Things politicians won't say in 2006, KNPR, 12-30-05
• Ready for School? Military recruiters are, Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-28-05
• No Nevada elections, not this time, on KNPR 7-29-05
• Reid & Ensign: Enough with the love already, Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-6-05
• Video poker drones on KNPR 7-5-05

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