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Hugh Jackson

Hugh Jackson

Hugh Jackson is editor of the Nevada Current.

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Daily Current: To protect and pimp; Bed bugs, ugh!; California is evil (yawn); guns aren’t

By: - June 6, 2018

This is normal. Judges, and cops, and pimps, and the FBI has been investigating Metro because cops and pimps, and there’s a whole back story of seedy tawdry sketchy behavior & characters, and seriously, WTF?!? (Aside: With the exception of George Knapp & KLAS, this whole bizarro world/underworld has been all but ignored by area […]

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market failure

Nevada has an affordable housing crisis, but no affordable housing policy

By: - June 6, 2018

In 1940, the median value of a single-family home in the U.S. was $2,938. Well, it was 1940. Gas was 18 cents a gallon. You could get a Ford sedan (this was back when Ford still made sedans) for less than $800. A loaf of bread was 8 cents. Adjusted for inflation, 18 cents for […]

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Daily Current, June 5

By: - June 5, 2018

Welcome to the very first ever in the history of your whole life Daily Current! You’ll likely want to record this day, for posterity. In the future, the Daily Current will look far and wide, scouring the cyberwasteland, as it were, for Nevada and Nevada-related stories to share with you and render astute color commentary […]

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The Current's staff

A note from the editor

By: - June 5, 2018

Several weeks ago when I first publicly, if softly, announced on Twitter that a new online news site was coming to Nevada, one of the most common responses was along the lines of “good, the more news the better” – especially from longtime Nevada journalists: This is great news for Nevada. Another independent news site […]