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How
to assassinate Medicare and Medicaid
Health
Savings Accounts: The insurance industry's Trojan Horse
Andrew
Barbano / Reno Gazette-Journal / 7-19-2014
Last
chance to endorse Don Dondero
for NPA Hall of Fame
Send it in NOW or forever
hold your peace
Migrant
laborers: Your folks and refugee kids
What
do broke Baby Boomers and Central American refugee children have in
common?
The future of the U.S. workforce.
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
ADMISSION
FREE
Nevadans
premiere live concert and film at Artown
A
cold shower for the NY Times Tesla gusher
40
years in the wilderness: Study says Silver State on downhill slide since
1970
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the
7-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
Ask
Hobby Lobby to take in refugee kids
So
five uptight old Catholic guys in grim reaper robes don't like contraception.
Wonder if they thought that way back in college?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-3-2014 Sparks Tribune
Sign
Rep. Barbara Lee's petition against a 3rd US-Iraq War
Barbara
Lee: The latter-day Jeannette
Rankin
More
about Congressmember Lee
Building
Trades Council responds to GOP misrepresentation
Sen.
Dean Heller attempts to stage an illegal political rally at federally-subsidized
housing complex
Teamsters
contract with Washoe transit system expires Monday, extension possible
JUNE 30 UPDATE:
Current contract extended through July 31, 2014.
6-29-2014
Update: Strike authorization passed overwhelmingly.
Labor
Losses:
Former Teamsters Local 533 Secretary-Treasurer/CEO
Louis E. Martino, Jr., 67
NEWLY
UPDATED: Martino graveside memorial service June 24/Mountain View/NW
Reno
Twila "LaDawn" Kulhanek Tutrow, Painters & Allied Trades
Local 567, 52
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers show
Tesla
plants PR slants to get into the public's pants
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-19-2014 Sparks Tribune
Politics
is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly
concern them.
—
Paul Valery, French critic & poet (1871-1945)
Nevada's
righteous ayatollahs arise once again
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-5-2014 Sparks Tribune
Reno
Grand Sierra Resort sued for 4,700 employees' back pay
Longtime
CWA member Bill Birkman dies
When
your enemy is destroying himself, never interfere
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-29-2014 Sparks Tribune
Keep
chipping. Pretty soon, you've got a sculpture—>and lots of arrowheads!
LV
unions get deals with all 9 holdout hotels
Golden
Gate caves. No strike.
GG was most recent Gomorrah South property
struck (2002)
MESSAGE
FROM THE MAHATMA
about America's latest carnage
Souls
to the polls—> early voting
Barbara
Bennett, Erik Holland & Václav Havel
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-22-2014 Sparks Tribune
Stabbing
rock-sucking kangaroos on the Ides of May
Reno
Gazette-Journal blatantly manipulates mayoral contest
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-15-2014 Sparks Tribune
Negative
Optimism:
Making the best of being worst
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-8-2014 Sparks Tribune
The
massacre at Kent State 5-4-1970
Nevada
State AFL-CIO conventioners join anti-education tax initiative business
coalition
Steve
Sebelius / Las Vegas Review-Journal 5-2-2014
Mayday!
Taxes smolder while citizens
do slow burn
May
Day in Reno, D-Day for teachers' union tax petition
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded & Updated from the
5-1-2014 Sparks Tribune
Revolution,
evolution, devolution & truth dilution
Also:
Labor leader Joe Assalone dies
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-24-2014 Sparks Tribune
Making
the best of an inbred situation
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
College
athletes need unions, pay
By
Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded
from the 4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
Marching
for equal rights and equal pay on tax day
Equal Rights Amendment will return to 2015 Nevada Legislature
Banqueters
cry: Hail, César
By
Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded from the 4-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
The
Obamacare Bitcoin online vote exchange
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
Strike
Chess: LV Culinary and Bartenders unions plan picketing
Las
Vegas Review-Journal / 4-8-2014
In
search of the modern day Barbara Bennett
Barbwire
by Barbano / Substantially expanded from the
4-3-2014 Sparks Tribune
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Assemblymember
Lucy Flores, Chávez
alumna Maria Zamora &
Sen. Joe Neal headline César
Chávez Day
2014
NEW!
1960s Northern
Nevada Chávez work disclosed
César
Chávez
Celebration XII
Monday
31 March 2014
Doors
open at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Celebración
de
César Chávez XII
Lunes 31 de Marzo 2014
Las puertas se abren a las 5:30 p.m., la cena a las 7:00 p.m.
Circus
Circus—Reno
Bob
McGowan, Miss America and César Chávez
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-27-2014 Sparks Tribune
When
César
Chávez came
to Reno
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Obama
pays tribute to late Reno labor leader
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THE
WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered
photo from July 15, 1986. Left to right are Kathy Brown,
Culinary Union Local 86 office manager; Miguel Contreras,
Local 86 Secretary-Treasurer; Local 86 President Bill Uehlein;
a lady named Natalie (anyone who knows her last name, please
write), and César Chávez. This item was
first published in Ahora, northern Nevada's Spanish-English
weekly, on March 26, 2008. (On 3-19-2009, President Obama paid
tribute to Brother Contreras as he spoke in the L.A. building
named after the late labor leader. See the 1986 Chávez
Reno archive, below.)
(Photo
courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers'
Union Local 169.)
More stories and photos
from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit
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Hiding
in Plain Sight
—>
The Barbwire Education Scandals go mainstream 2 years
later
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 3-27-2014
We
Don't Need No Education Archives
We
Don't Need No Education XXXVIII
The politics of media ga-ga
boosterism
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-20-2014 Sparks Tribune
We
Don't Need No Education XXXVII
Follytix
'14: If you don't laugh, you'll cry
BREAKING
NEWS: State illegally uses tax money vs. teacher tax vote
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-13-2014 Sparks Tribune
BETTER
LATE THAN NEVER: Largest Nevada newspaper confirms
Barbwire investigative series about Clark and Washoe County school districts'
phony graduation rates. CLICK
HERE FOR THE AWFUL TRUTH UNO MAS.
Campaign
2014: An expensive comedy act
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-6-2014 Sparks Tribune
WE
LOVE LUCY! As political junkies and others of questionable
character (which describes most of my fans) learned before the rest of
the great unwashed in the Barbwire
of Feb. 20, Assemblymember Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas, will
declare her candidacy for Nevada lieutenant governor at 2:00 p.m. PST
Saturday, March 1, at the College of Southern Nevada Cheyenne Campus.
Does the date imply Lucy is coming in like a lion? Well, she is
woman, hear her roar. She will address Washoe Democrats on Tuesday evening,
March 4, at DemoHQ, 1465 Terminal Way in Reno. Be well. Raise hell. Esté
bien. Haga infierno.
Shirl
Elliker: Nevada loses an honorable man
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
2-27-2014 Sparks Tribune
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We
Don't Need No Education XXXVI —>
Education:
The cure spawns an even worse disease
ALSO:
Assemblymember Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas, will declare for lieutenant
governor in early March
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
2-20-2014 Sparks Tribune
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Navigating
the flagship—>Making quick work of NevadaLabor.com
WHEN
ALL ELSE FAILS DEPT.—> I recently got my first criticism
in 18 years that this site is a bit confusing to navigate. I take
that as a compliment. Confusing people is one of my few talents.
I thought I had anticipated any such problems
years ago by liberally sprinkling links to the front page site
map. (These days, am I supposed to say that I sprinkled progressively
rather than liberally?)
The front page of NevadaLabor.com acts
as a chronological listing of recent workplace news with the latest
at the top. I archive annually to create a continuous permanent
record fully accessible via the site map or
any garden-variety websearch.
"We Don't
Need No Education" has now passed its 25th installment
and thus merits its
own section inside. Say hi to Don Quixote.
Current
Barbwires plus more than 20 years of columniacal archives,
the Statewide News Roundup
and Breaking News/Bull'tins/Almanac
are all available via the site map—>as
well as the usual general or specific ongoing madness and historical
inflammation. (Once something's posted here or to any of my other
sites, it's up forever.)
While the front page is chronological,
the Statewide News Roundup
is categorical, e.g., construction, hospitality, legislation,
health care and many others. Breaking
News/Bull'tins/Almanac often publishes original U-News as
well as links to items at other sites that are not hot enough
for the front page chronology. The NevadaLabor.com
search engine acts as a short-cut to everything, depending
on what you seek. So simply seek and ye shall find.
As my old friend Wise John the Lake
Havasu Cropduster Pilot often says, "when all else
fails, read the instructions." So when all else fails,
re-read the above, then go to the nearest site
map link and/or "search."
The NevadaLabor.com search engine is really amazing. It's also
union-signatory and thus quite efficient.
Thanks for your inputs and support over
lo, these many years. Keep up the good work and the good fight.
Esté bien. Haga infierno. / Be
well. Raise hell.
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