BREAKING NEWS AND THEN SOME—>
Updated 5-17-2013

We don't need no education: The neverending series
Daily Sparks (NV) Tribune and The Charlotte (NC) Observer / 2012-2013

MAY 29: Path to Citizenship Public Assembly
Little Flower Church / Kietzke and E. Plumb Ln. / Reno, NV

Star-stuck: Dirty deals for dirty movies
Ghostrider Nicolas Cage sticks it to Nevada school kids
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-16-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Mr. Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

CLINGING TO THE LEDGE: SB457 (municipal election ward voting for Henderson, Reno, Sparks and Carson City) comes before the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee on May 7 along with SB458 (uniform election act) and SB325 (plain language ballot). Read more about them here. Show up and if you can't —> turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)

The asinine assassination of KJFK talk radio
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-2-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

4-28-2013
National Workers Memorial Day of the Dead
You're not worth much dead or alive
Impose the death penalty on companies knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary

Gov. Sandoval's $3 million New York State of Mind
New Nevada ad campaign slips on a sideways banana
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sunday 4-21-2013 Reno Gazette-Journal
Portions of the above also appeared in the 4-10-2013 RGJ and the 4-18-2013 Reno News & Review

Hopelessly trying to win an earthquake
I publicly wept when they looked at me.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-18-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Sitting ducks in Sparks as storks stalk Carson
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-11-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

César Chávez's fight continues
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-4-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Fixing education: The bulldozer solution
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Gov. Sandoval, César Chávez and the Grateful Dead
Barbwire by Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune 3-21-2013

César Chávez Celebration XI
Join us again on Thursday/March 28, 2013
Jueves, 28 de Marzo, 2013 / Circus Circus - Reno
Nevada Gov. Sandoval declines invitation for third year in a row
El Gobernador de Nevada, Brian Sandoval, declinó la invitación por el tercer año consecutivo.

We Don't Need No Education: Part XIX—>
Fixing education: The bulldozer solution
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

AFL-CIO and NAACP support Obama choice of Perez for new Secretary of Labor
Las Vegas Sun / 3-18-2013

Papa Francisco Primero: ¡Viva La Revolución!
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

The brutal law of unintended consequences
Between the devil and the deep Joe Neal
Long-lost research may invalidate more than 100 longstanding Nevada laws
IRONY ALERT—>New higher electoral standard for teachers' tax petition may generate more support
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XVI —> School shootings:
Reno GOP Senator introduces bill to shoot schools in fiscal foot
Where is gun control when we need it?
Can you stimulate the economy by cutting wages?
U-News e-Bulletin by Andrew Barbano / 2-26-2013

Dishonest Abe: white hood on a stovepipe hat
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-21-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Las Vegas area black students three times more likely to get expelled than non-blacks
Odds of getting suspended are more than double / Some schools issue almost as many suspensions as they have students
Las Vegas Sun / 2-15-2013
See the ongoing Barbwire investigative series "We Don't Need No Education"

Pope Guido Sarducci & Wildhorse Annie II
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Happy New Year / Feliz Año Nuevo
May you and yours enjoy a peaceful and prosperous time

BREAKING NEWS and then some—>

Barbano back on Sam Shad's statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV program

ED Part XVIII—>Petition pondering & pandering:
Just Say No, a Nevada tradition
CLINGING TO THE LEDGE—>Do the Nancy Reagan thing
Just say no to the teachers' tax petition and invalidate term limits and right-to-work-for-less in the process.
What's not to like?
Barbwire by Barbano / Special Online Abstinence Edition / 3-5-2013
An edited and updated version appeared in the 3-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

ED Part XVII —>
The brutal law of unintended consequences
Between the devil and the deep Joe Neal
Long-lost research may invalidate more than 100 longstanding Nevada laws
IRONY ALERT—>New higher electoral standard for teachers' tax petition may generate more support
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Greasing the suckers and goosing the gullible
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XIV: Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Clinging to the ledge and paying for our sins
Governor pays back Nevada health insurance monopoly/major campaign contributor
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-24-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

MLK Weekend 2013

Barbwire MLK Day Trilogy + Poor Denny's Almanac Jan. 15 (MLK's Birthday) and Jan. 20-21 Inauguration Day

John F. Kennedy's 2013 inaugural address
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-22-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

---

Moonhowlers, smoking guns & warning labels
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-17-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Power politics & prescient predictions
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-10-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Nevada to mining: Never mind (the tax thing)
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife 1-9-2013

Barbano back on Sam Shad's statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV program

Wine, winners, whiners & white guys
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-3-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Bestest of the grotesquest for 2013
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-27-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Happy High Holly Days

John Wayne, Michael Moore & Andrew Undershaft
The guns of mythology
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-20-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Great minds think alike dept.—>Includes an update from Michael Moore

House Ethics Committee finds Berkley violated ethics rules
By Karoun Demirjian / Las Vegas Sun / 12-20-12
The House Ethics Committee has found that Rep. Shelley Berkley “violated House Rules and other laws, rules and standards of conduct” in a mixed decision that also cleared her of wrongdoing on her advocacy to protect UMC's kidney transplant center from closure. The committee found Berkley guilty of “improperly using her official position for beneficial interest by permitting her office to take official action specifically on behalf of her husband’s practice” when she helped him with trouble he had collecting claims through Medicaid, Medicare and the Veteran's Administration.

Calls to Action from the Nevada State AFL-CIO
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Come participate in the Festival of the Failure of the King Maker.
Where/when: in front of his palace, the Venetian Casino, 12-12-12 at 12:00
Who: Bring your friends, neighbors and countrymen (members) and celebrate with us.
Signs will be provided.
Join the Society of Trauma Nurses, Building & Construction Trades Council of Southern Nevada/AFL-CIO,
Culinary Union Local 226 and the Nevada State AFL-CIO.
FYI: In light of his recent failure, Kingmaker Sheldon Adelson has vowed to double down in the next presidential cycle.
President Gingrich, anyone?

---

WHEN: Monday, December 10, 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Lloyd George Federal Building / 333 Las Vegas Blvd. S. / Downtown
WHAT: Candlelight Campaign Against Cuts
"Tell Senator Dean Heller and Congressman Joe Heck we need more economic security, not less. Don’t continue to give tax breaks to the richest 2%. Don’t sacrifice Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for the wealthy." — Danny Thompson, Exec. Secretary-Treasurer
Join us on Monday, Dec. 10 to send Congress a message!

Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-29-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program

Two Reno Black Friday Wal-Mart demonstrations on Nov. 23

John F. Kennedy's 2013 inaugural address
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-22-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Nevadalabor.com Wal-Mart Nevada War Room

Michael Moore and Crackers the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken assert that they have been thrown out of better places.

Why rednecks didn't vote for Obama
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-15-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program

WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV. 2012, 12:24 a.m. PST, 08:24 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT — Somebody place a want ad for campaign managers.

WOULD'A COULD'A SHOULD'A DEPT. Come Wednesday, Nov. 7, Sen. Harry Reid and Nevada Democrats may rue not having nominated Sheila Leslie for U.S. Senate.
Be well. Raise hell. — From Barbwire by Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-1-2012

Vote early and often

Michael Moore and Crackers the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken assert that they have been thrown out of better places.

Messages from the Mahatma, last-second scandals and much more

Latest Breaking News & Bulletins
NevadaLabor.com / 11-6-2012

Déjà vu all over again

GREG PALAST REPORTS FOR AMY GOODMAN'S DEMOCRACY NOW:
Ohio —> Wrong Ballots for Black Voters —>
Investigation Uncovers Thousands at Risk of Ballot Loss
Palast offers free downloads of new book "Billionaires and Bailout Bandits"

• Nevada Democratic Party does not speak CB Radio
  Where are Johnny Cash and CW McCall when we need them?
  
• As in 2008, the Salt Lake Tribune endorses Obama
  
• Nevada Division of Welfare will now follow the law allowing employees to vote.
  Managers had to be pushed!
  
• Union Says V.A. Retaliated Against and Fired Whistleblowers

• Unions file charges of Romney profiteering on General Motors bailout

Dreams of Redemption on All Saints Day
A presidential candidate Nevadans can and cannot vote for + Reid regrets
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-1-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

HOPE YOU WORE HALLOWE'EN ORANGE
FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS

¡Viva Los Gigantes!

...all of whom are represented by a labor union

2012 Nevada union-endorsed candidates

---

Beginning the Barbwire's Silver Anniversary Year

We don't need no education, Part XII
And we don't need no evolution, 'nuther
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-18-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

ED Part XI—> Instant replay of rape and pillage
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-11-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Betcha don't see this debate spin: Romney basically took LIBERAL POSITIONS.
So we learned something. Bueno.
Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program

Don't register your drunken relatives
Apathy is never having to say you're sorry
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-4-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education, Part X
The school district master chefs continue cooking the books
Click here to access the ongoing education series
Teachers' business tax petitions hit Nevada streets while Chicago teachers do likewise
Damning inspection report brings union call to oust Reno VA hospital leadership
State ignores voter registration lawsuit until the day after this column printed
NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER: New community TV channel
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-13-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

NAGPAC's Ghost Riders Saddle Up Again
Blackguards challenge Nevada's legendary None of the Above ballot option
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-17-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 9-6-2012: Federal appellate judges put None of the Above back on the November ballot. Alleluia!

The Post-Dated Recession:
Pay me now or pay me later
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-6-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Women and Unions: Orphan Majorities
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-3-2012 Reno Gazette-Journal / Updated 9-4-2012

Lie when that pollster calls you
Breaking News: Morrison appointee ousted at Washoe County School District
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-26-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

You can't handle the truth
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-19-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

You've lived here too long when...
PLUS: Myth Rumpney & Retro Ryan Alert
77th Anniversary of Social Security celebrated statewide Tuesday
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-12-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Cold Reality TV
Life is a bitch and the bitch is television
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-5-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Fear is a Liar
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-29-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Heat and light for the Hall of Flames
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-22-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Playing with fire
Too stingy to pay for fire protection but not to raise taxes and blame unions
PLUS: Legendary labor folksinger Anne Feeney plays Reno July 17
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-15-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATE: Anne Feeney hospitalized in Oregon.
Concert off. BBQ, music and party still on.

If you give it away, you can't sell it
How the Beehive State bested Nevada by investing in education rather than prostituting to corporations
High-tax Utah has now surpassed Virginia on the Forbes list of most business-friendly states
Tax-the-workers Nevada is at the bottom of the barrel, as usual
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-12-2012

Jobs bill demonstrations July 9 & 12 at Sen. Heller's Reno & LV offices

i'toon: Fertilizing apples with citizens as mushrooms
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-1-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

NAGPAC's Ghost Riders Saddle Up Again
Blackguards challenge Nevada's legendary None of the Above ballot option
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-17-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 9-6-2012: Federal appellate judges put None of the Above back on the November ballot. Alleluia!

The Rocking Ghosts of Del Mar Station
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-10-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Travus T. Hipp (1937-2012): Tales of Nevada's Futures Passed
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-3-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

---

WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION

BREAKING NEWS and then some—>

ED Part XXI—>Star-stuck: Dirty deals for dirty movies
Ghostrider Nicolas Cage sticks it to Nevada school kids
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-16-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

ED20: Mr. Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Toljaso Dept.: Morrison malady spreads
Gomorrah South grad stats a shuck
Las Vegas Review-Journal 4-10-2013

ED Part XIX—>
Fixing education: The bulldozer solution
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence.
"The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad."
The Atlantic / 12-29-2011

ED Part XVIII—>Petition pondering & pandering:
Just Say No, a Nevada tradition
CLINGING TO THE LEDGE—>Do the Nancy Reagan thing
Just say no to the teachers' tax petition and invalidate term limits and right-to-work-for-less in the process.
What's not to like?
Barbwire by Barbano / Special Online Abstinence Edition / 3-5-2013
An edited and updated version appeared in the 3-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

ED Part XVII —>

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program —> Almost the entire Feb. 27 show concerned the teachers' tax petition. The Barbwire in the Feb. 28 Sparks Tribune will have a major impact on it both legislatively and electorally. Turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

We Don't Need No Education Part XVI —> School shootings:
Reno GOP Senator introduces bill to shoot schools in fiscal foot
Where is gun control when we need it?
Can you stimulate the economy by cutting wages?
U-News e-Bulletin by Andrew Barbano / 2-26-2013

Las Vegas area black students three times more likely to get expelled than non-blacks
Odds of getting suspended are more than double / Some schools issue almost as many suspensions as they have students
Las Vegas Sun / 2-15-2013

ED XV: Greasing the suckers and goosing the gullible
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XIV: Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

ED Part XIII: WCSD Trustee-elect Rosenberg is a non-believer
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-6-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

We don't need no education, Part XII
And we don't need no evolution, 'nuther
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-18-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

ED Part XI—> Instant replay of rape and pillage
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-11-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education, Part X
The school district master chefs continue cooking the books
Teachers' business tax petitions hit Nevada streets while Chicago teachers do likewise
Damning inspection report brings union call to oust Reno VA hospital leadership
State ignores voter registration lawsuit until the day after this column printed
NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER: New community TV channel
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-13-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Morrison import Jane Woodburn ousted from Washoe County School District
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-26-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

ED IX: You can't handle the truth
Third year of Morrison's graduation rate miracle proves mythological
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-19-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education, Part VIII
Eighth in a series on the collapsing future of Nevada education
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-24-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Morrison & Maurins: M&M's hard to swallow
Seventh in a series on the collapsing future of Nevada education
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-20-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

All that's missing is an enemies list
Sixth in a series on the collapsing future of Nevada education
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-13-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Abandon hope, all ye who enter college
Fourth in a series on the collapsing future of Nevada education
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-29-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

The Mythological Morrison Miracle
Third in a series on the collapsing future of Nevada education
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-22-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Update 4-24-2012 — Dr. Morrison is in Charlotte, NC, today signing his contract to accept the superintendent position.

The marshal is getting outta Dodge
So much for Nevada education's strategic plan + 4/25 Workers Memorial Day commemoration
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-15-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Breaking our own backs: If you have kids, move from Nevada
Have Nevada teachers made a deal with the devil? / St. Mary's firings begin
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-8-2012 Daily SparksTribune

---

Nevada would profit handsomely from Obamacare
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife 4-5-2012

Reno and Carson City Trayvon demonstrations March 24
Sign the petition to win justice for 17 year-old
Florida murder victim Trayvon Martin + continuous updates

César Chávez Celebration X
Saturday / March 31, 2012 / Circus Circus-Reno

César Chávez X Celebracion
sábado 31 DE Marzo, 2012 en Circus Circus de Reno
Sponsorship & Ticket Information
Purchase online thru E-Bay's secure PayPal service

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program

Renown 150: Profiting at taxpayer expense
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from the 3-18-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

More sucker punches from Lush Rambo
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from the 3-11-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Corpo-Dems, Labor-Greens and golden mensches
Also: Jeanmarie Simpson previews her new play in Reno March 9
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-4-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

This bitch just isn't sexy enough
A domestic cartel fixes the price of gasoline while politicians say nothing can be done and media sit shiva.
Such is BigOil's power to intimidate while hiding in plain sight.
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from the 2-26-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Democrats helped elect Republicans Halseth and Heck
By David McGrath Schwartz / 2-22-2012 Las Vegas Sun

Red line in a new bottle:
We are caged for slaughter in an electronic zoo
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-19-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

God herself decrees every sperm is sacred
Plus: Bogus Beach Boys Grammy Awards claim
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-12-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Forward to the same damned old place
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-5-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program

LIBERALS PICKET BIDEN IN RENO

Mixed Mayan mammary metaphors:
Going belly up and upside down
Barbano by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-8-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Happy High Holly Days!
Feliz nuevo ano

Merry Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus

Betty J. Barbano 2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005

The Christmas conundrum, harrumph-a-pump-pump
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-27-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Economist: This is a true depression
Elliott Parker Guest Editorial / Las Vegas Sun / 11-27-2011

Why African-Americans aren't embracing Occupy Wall Street
Stacy Patton / Opinion / Washington Post / 11-25-2011

AFL-CIO urges unions to treat Occupy DC as a picket line
WashingtonPost.com / 11-21-2011

Bury the Bad News with Rose-colored Reporting
How urgent can economic troubles be if leaders say things are getting better?
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 11-23-2011

Grading Nevada lawmakers and governor
Progressive Leadership Alliance publishes 2011 Racial Equity Report Card
(To which the Reno-Sparks NAACP provided input)
Read/Download the report for yourself
Las Vegas Sun / 11-21-2011

Nevada's 11 most powerful in 2011
Send in your picks to click
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-20-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

The dog ate my press release
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-23-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Loss of Faith
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-16-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
"Casino Women" book hits nationwide

Dirty books, holy men, false prophets and sex profits
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-9-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program

Corporate bake sales for broken governments
Unions threatened in attempt to stifle Obama administration criticism
Democrats schedule national convention with rat labor
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-18-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

State Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, brings his new congressional campaign to northern Nevada

Princess Cassandra's neverending labor
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-4-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

If you can't win, be spectacular
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-28-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Miners don't even kiss us afterward
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife / 8-25-2011

Suicide via Laborcide in Carolina
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-21-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Bullshots and bum watches
Will Nevada unions picket their own convention?
Culinary 226 cuts new deal in the face of Grand Sierra Reno's wholesale outsourcing
Huge Tonopah solar array project Nevada's newest corporate welfare queen
Residents opposing Comstock pit mine schedule events
Seniors group endorses Democrat Kate Marshall in 9-13-2011 Nevada special election
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-14-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Bullfighting in Tonopah, Part Deux
Latest survival bulletins from the High Desert Plantation
Washoe County D.A. defends his instant plea bargain program
Barbwire by Barbano special web edition 8-11-2011
Substantially updated and expanded from the 8-7-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

UFW leader Richard Chávez, brother of César Chávez, dies at 81
Los Angeles Times / 7-28-2011

Unions protest FAA shutdown at Rep. Joe Heck's Las Vegas office

Lord Rupert's Rupture & President Tiger Wuss
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-24-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

President Kevorkian and Harry Potter's Congress
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-17-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Dr. Strangelove and Sen. Don the Dumberer
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Daily Sparks Tribune 7-10-2011

Nevada Supreme Court upholds Republican plan for party-controlled special house election

A precedent of sorts for The contested one-vote North Las Vegas City Council election Update: Single-vote loser seeks recount / Las Vegas Sun 7-19-2011 In the 1980 Republican primary for the southwest Reno Assembly District 25 seat, Patty Cafferata defeated Bob Kerns by one vote. (Sue Wagner, the incumbent, had vacated to run for state senate.) Kerns did not ask for a recount but took the matter immediately to court, citing the short time frame between the Sept. 9 primary and Nov. 4 general. The case was assigned to Washoe Dist. Judge John Barrett. Kerns brought forward a woman, a registered Democrat, who was given a Republican ballot by mistake. She testified that she had voted for Mrs. Cafferata. Judge Barrett would not throw out the election, adding that he hoped whoever won the seat would address the gap in state election law where such an issue was concerned. I don't know that it was and, given the confusion over the recent North Las Vegas city council election, it has not. Barrett's point was that no matter how she testified how she voted, there was no way to corroborate that assertion and he could thus not vacate the result or wipe out one vote for Cafferata and call it a tie. Cafferata went on to win the general election in the heavily Republican district. Kerns won the seat in 1982 when Cafferata ran for state treasurer. If the law has not been changed since the Kerns-Cafferata mess, then the Barrett decision, while not having been appealed and thus not a precedent, may provide some guidance in the current debate. Be well. Raise hell. Andrew Barbano 6-14-2011

The way it was may come again.. Please contribute and volunteer.

Updated statewide broadcast schedule + links to 2009-2011 webstreaming on-demand archive Andrew Barbano on Sam Shad's statewide Nevada Newsmakers Barbwire.TV 5-31-2011: The Mining Addiction Barbwire banned in prime time Tune in tonight LIVE 7:00 p.m. PDT / 02:00 ZULU GMT 6-1 Live webstreaming at the above link Déjà vu, dustbusters and living legacies Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-29-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune Clinging to the Ledge: Cold War Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-22-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune TV PROGRAM REGIONAL RERUN SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED Next live call-in show 7:00 p.m. PDT Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Same originating cable stations noted at above link which also has a regional coverage map. TV this week: Freedom Riders and wage defenders Live with your phone calls throughout northwestern Nevada Tuesday, 5-17-2011 7:00 p.m. PDT 5-17-2011 / 02:00 5-18 ZULU Click above for live webstreaming and rebroadcast times Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-15-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune Updated 5-16-2011, 5-17-2011, 5-19 and 5-25-2011 Support the return of community broadcasting to Reno, Sparks and Washoe County, Nevada — To donate, just click within the TV set image. Thank you.

What may well have been the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

July 4 Railroad Jobs: We're Red, White and Screwed
PLEADING POVERTY: Washoe County Commission tries to up D.A.'s quickie conviction rate
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-3-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune