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<p>Nicolas Cage and his agent Michael Nilon. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)</p>

Hugh Jackson: Policy with the stars!

Updated: May 22, 2013 6:20pm
“Conceptually speaking, we are grossly underfunded,” Elaine Wynn told the Las Vegas Chamber of...
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Hugh Jackson: Senator rides small in the saddle

May 01, 2013 7:23pm
The traditional mystique of the man’s man of the rural Western United States conjures the...
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Hugh Jackson: Rules of disengagement

Updated: Apr 24, 2013 5:02pm
The state superintendent of education (admit it: You didn’t know Nevada had a state...
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Hugh Jackson: Mr. Brooks goes to Barstow

Apr 03, 2013 6:05pm
There’s no way to know what might happen to Steven Brooks between the time this is...

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Hugh Jackson: SPECTRE’s new No. 1

Oct 03, 2012 6:35pm
The most important Republican in the world, Sheldon Adelson, granted Politico an interview the other day, in which the area casino magnate and raving megalomaniac explained why he will spend more...

Hugh Jackson: It’s not about the candidates

Sep 19, 2012 5:54pm
Before examining a surprisingly improved outlook for Democratic candidates seeking federal office in Nevada, a crucial reminder is in order: It’s not about the candidates.Democrats need to pick up 25...

Hugh Jackson: Why Obama’s ahead in Nevada

Sep 05, 2012 5:34pm
As of the start of this week’s Democratic convention, the presidential race in Nevada had been polled nine times over the last five months. Mitt Romney trailed in all of them. In five of the nine,...
<p>Paul Ryan on Aug. 14 in Las Vegas. PHOTO: JASON BEAN</p>

Hugh Jackson: Medicare for all, courtesy of Paul Ryan?

Updated: Aug 30, 2012 8:01am
Democrats have become pretty good over the years at adapting, which is to say surrendering to, the right’s narratives. In the 1990s, Clinton (him, not her) famously declared “the era of big...

Hugh Jackson: Finally, the opponent Romney deserves

Updated: Aug 08, 2012 7:54pm
Harry Reid can toss The Crazy. For the mainstream media, the genre includes Reid’s “war is lost” bit, calling George W. Bush a “loser” and a “liar” or describing former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan as...
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Hugh Jackson: a charitable view of Dean Heller

Updated: Aug 01, 2012 4:16pm
Candidates and their campaign advisers tend to assume voters are ignorant, and hold them in contempt.Whatever the truth (and there is some) underlying the assumption, the obvious irony is that...
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Are Dems ignorant, or too cowardly to back Obamacare’s Medicaid provision?

Jul 18, 2012 5:51pm
After the Supreme Court ruled states didn’t have to expand Medicaid coverage as initially required under Obamacare unless they wanted to, the attorney who represented Nevada’s challenge to the law...

Joe the contractor

Jul 06, 2012 2:42pm
Congressional spouses are people too. Probably. So when Republican Congressman Joe Heck dissolved his company after winning election in 2010, his wife, who worked for the company, did what other laid...