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UPDATED 11-5-2024 GMT

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US, TOO—>'Surprising' poll: Harris leads Trump by 3 points in Nevada, Rosen ahead of Brown by 12
By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette Journal 11-4-2024 9:04 a.m. PST
Heavyweight addition to Harris now up by 3% in Iowa according to authorititative Des Moines Register poll

FASCISM? That's a new face cream, right?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-30-2024

Now playing in Las Vegas and greater Clark County, Reno-Sparks-Washoe, Carson City, Fallon, Douglas & Storey Counties. Imagine a day with no Trump in it.
Then VOTE!
On major highways, especially the Reno Spaghetti Bowl near the Grand Sierra. Contact me for locations.
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Piggy-backing to play leap-frog
Second in a series.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-16-2024

Electing Judas Iscariot
First in a series.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-9-2024
BARBWIRE CONFIDENTIAL—>
UPDATED 10-13-2024 GMT: Tracking Poll sez Question 3 fading. Stay tuned!

Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx
Still crazy after all these years.

The Used Car Presidential Campaign
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-18-2024

Diabolical Déjà Vu: Fire is the Devil's only friend
Barbwire accurately called 2016 presidential result 9 months out & stands by 2020 prediction made four years ago

Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 9-2-2020 Sparks Tribune

 

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Two more Barbwire/Molly Ivins Hall of Famers
installed into Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame

Barbano nominees and strong union men Rocha and Highton win again
9-14-2024

To Win Nevada, Harris Must Turn Infrastructure Jobs Into Votes
By Gabriel Thompson / Capital and Main (Calif.) / 9-10-2024

Harris Debe Tornar Los Empleos En Infraestructura En Votos Para Ganar Nevada
By Gabriel Thompson / Capital and Main (Calif.) / 9-10-2024

2 more Barbano nominees elected to Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame
Highton and Rocha win / 4 down, 4 to go
Carson City Nevada Appeal / 8-15-2024

Nonpartisan advocate for seniors prevented from running for county commission seat
By Bob Conrad / ThisIsReno.com / The Ides of August 2024
Stay tuned to the 8-21-2024 Sparks Tribune: Who really benefits
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Prophets and Profits
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."— Groucho Marx
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Hot August VD
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A STORY SO HOT OFF THE PRESS
THAT IT MAY REQUIRE OPENING THE WATER GATES

8-2-2024 —> Today, Aaron C. Davis and Carol D. Leonnig of the Washington Post reported that there is reason to believe that when Trump’s 2016 campaign was running low on funds, Trump accepted a $10 million injection of cash from Egypt’s authoritarian leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. It is against the law to accept direct or indirect financial support from foreign nationals or foreign governments for a political campaign in the United States. Stay tuned.

T-Rump took money from Egypt
By Heather Cox Richardson 8-2-2024

Washington Post Exclusive
$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe
into whether Trump took money from Egypt
Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case.

"Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to 'kindly withdraw' nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash."

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State houses, courthouses & cat houses
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Creeping Senility vs. Glaring Insanity
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-3-2024

NevadaLabor.com First-break Exclusive
WASHOE COMMISSION CANDIDATE FILES APPEAL OF DISQUALIFICATION
Nevada's 2020 Senior Citizen of the Year defends certification

Commissar T-Rump Serves Czar RasPutin
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-31-2024

After Teamsters DC meeting, Trump says of possible union endorsement, "Stranger things have happened"
By Jill Kolvin & Tom Krisher / Associated Press / 1-31-2024

T-Rump raps America
Donald Trump's campaign goes hip-hop
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-27-2023

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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford keynotes Aug. 26, 2023, NAACP dinner

Renate Neumann: Once upon a time
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True Confession: I drink Bud Light
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Invasion of the Chicken Pluckers
Gov. Ron DeSatanist soils the Silver State at GOP testiclefest
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Clinging to the Ledge 2023

Hearing March 29
Sen. Daly's SB274 to help injured first responders

IMPORTANT! Send your support via above link
UPDATE: SB274 was signed into law by the governor on June 6. Sometimes, the good guys win one.

Who will answer?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-29-2023

Bill would regulate mobile home park rent increases
Sen. Skip Daly's SB 275 would prevent manufactured home parks from raising rents higher than the “maximum annual rent increase percentage."
Reno Gazette-Journal / 3-29-2023
UPDATE 6-22-2023: SB275 passed both houses on strictly party lines but was vetoed by the governor on June 16.
Google rgj.com for "rent measures fail 2023" to read the full sad story of the damage Gov. Giuseppe Lumbago foisted onto the humble, the elderly and the weak.

Culinary Union supports AB340 reforming evictions
Culinary Union Local 226 President Ted Pappageorge / 3-29-2023

The ghost of legendary Reno Mayor Barbara Bennett returns
Sen. Skip Daly picks up the torch for the little people
Mobile home park residents urge lawmakers to stabilize rents: ‘We are in dire need’
By Michael Lyle / Nevada Current via ThisIsReno.com / 3-28-2023
UPDATE 6-22-2023: SB275 passed both houses on strictly party lines but was vetoed by the governor on June 16.
Google rgj.com for "rent measures fail 2023" to read the full sad story of the damage Gov. Giuseppe Lumbago foisted onto the humble, the elderly and the weak.

Much More About Renters Rights at Rentvolutionv.org

Keolis Transit loses federal case it filed against Teamsters Union employee
By Bob Conrad / ThisIsReno.com 3-28-2023
Much more at the NevadaLabor.com Teamsters Local 533 War Room

Michigan repeals union-busting right-to-work for less law
By Jonathan Weisman / The New York Times / 3-23-2023
Nevada's bitter history

Recurring revolutions and tent control
César Chávez Yerington event 3-30-2023
Hearing March 29: Bill to help injured first responders
Nevada Womens' March 3-25-2023
Once and future rent control

Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-22-2023
Google rgj.com for "rent measures fail 2023" to read the full sad story of the damage Gov. Giuseppe Lumbago foisted onto the humble, the elderly and the weak.
Much More About Renters Rights at Rentvolutionv.org


BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

TURF WAR
Sparks City Hall wants to kill your kids
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-15-2023

Selling sex in morally righteous Mississippi West
Sen. Dina Neal keeps up the heat on Elon Musk & Tesla
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-8-2023

INFO: Assemblymember Venicia Considine, D-Clark
Seating is limited, RSVP recommended Chris.Molnar@asm.state.nv.us
RSVP is not required to attend.
(775) 684-8801

APOCALYPSE THEN—>
It can't happen here. We're too smart, right?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-1-2023

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