the paper's columnists include political editor clancy dubos, who is also a political analyst and commentator on wwl-tv. past columnists have included chris rose, jeremy alford, andrei codrescu and ronnie virgets. regular features include "opening gambit" (political news briefs), and "thumbs up & thumbs down," weekly awards for the city's "heroes and zeroes." "gambit" also publishes a weekly editorial and issues endorsements in many political races, with two notable exceptions; it does not endorse in national elections, nor does it endorse in judicial elections (on a longstanding political belief that judges should be appointed, not elected).