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   That's how it goes. Everybody knows.

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But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
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Everybody knows what you've been through
   From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach at Malibu.
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Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
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And everybody knows.

Everybody knows. Everybody knows.
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At last

Barbwire and Nevada Press Association Hall of Famer Dennis Myers
will be installed in the César Chávez NevadaLabor.com Hall of Fame
on April 5, 2024

A Reno High and UNR classmate, former Reno City Attorney and Justice Court Judge Patricia Lynch, will accept the award on Dennis' behalf.
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Ain't we a pair?
Dennis Myers & Andrew Barbano inducted into César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-10-2024

VIEW OR LISTEN TO THE EVENT LIVE ON ZOOM.

 

Veteran Nevada reporter Myers removed from life support
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Special Internet Edition 8-25-2019 / Updated 8-26-27-28-29 & 8-30 + 9-4-2019, 9-7, 9-11-2019 & 9-27-2019 GMT / Expansions in blue

Superspreaders, homotextuals & hall of famers
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Barbwire by Barbáno / Expanded from the 9-30-2020 Sparks Tribune

The Best Who Ever Was
Barbwire Nominee Dennis Myers elected to Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame
Barbwire / 9-30-2020

The Greatest Of All Time
Sparks Tribune 8-28-2019

[En Español — La Voz Hispana En Nevada 9-18-2019]

REPORT FROM THE MEMORIAL GATHERING (9-15-2019) — About 200 people from as far away as the Philippines. Australia and Ireland gathered to honor Dennis on the banks of the Truckee River on Sunday, Sept. 15. His ashes will be scattered at Pyramid Lake, the termination of the Truckee on the Paiute Reservation. Details in the Sept. 18 Sparks Tribune.


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RENO, Nev. (Sunday 25 August 2019) — Distinguished Nevada journalist Dennis Myers remains on life support at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, awaiting organ harvesting per his instructions.

Cut in twain
(His favorite photo)

The longtime news editor of the Reno News & Review suffered a massive brain stem stroke last week. Starved of oxygen, his brain showed no activity at hospital admission.

He was officially listed as discharged from Renown on Saturday when moved to organ donor status. Donation surgery may take place anytime within the next 72 hours.

The exact time and date of whatever may be defined as his death will thus be known only to God. He takes with him a peerless repository of Nevada history and journalistic institutional memory.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, David Wayne Myers Dean (1970-2017) and his former wife, Connie Taylor Dean. Like his father, David was a veteran. Dennis Myers is survived by his brother, Tom Myers, a resident of the Philippines; daughter-in-law, Ball State Prof. Tereza Sedlbauerova, four grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, two nieces and a nephew.

Dennis Myers, 70, was born to Loyd and Mildred Myers in San Gabriel, California, on Dec. 28, 1948 and moved to Nevada when he was about five years old.

His father, "Dutch" Myers, ran a downtown Reno barber shop, appropriately right across the street from the old Reno Evening Gazette/Nevada State Journal building on Center Street.

Myers and his crew of RNR journalists were awarded the inaugural NAACP Eddie Scott/Bertha Woodard Human Rights Advocacy Award in 2015. The honor is named after two former Reno-Sparks NAACP presidents and Nevada civil rights legends.

"He was a consistent and admirable advocate for the rights of minorities, workers and women. We will remember him at the NAACP's 74th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet," stated Branch First Vice-President Andrew Barbano. The event will take place on Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Grand Sierra-Reno. (RenoSparksNAACP.org/)

"We needed the Reno-Sparks Convention Center for NAACP Matriarch Dolores Feemster last year," Barbano stated. "Dennis might need a similar arena."

Myers' extensively researched summary of Assemblymember Ira Hansen's, R-Sparks, long record of racist and bigoted writings fueled the Reno-Sparks NAACP's successful national campaign that caused Hansen's 2014 withdrawal as speaker-designate of Nevada's lower house. Myers was quoted everywhere from the Maui News to The New York Times and The Guardian of London/UK.

All public issues were fair game no matter their source. Myers was as consistent a critic as any conservative when it came to Nevada's rampant corporate welfare proliferation and increasingly regressive taxation. He was a champion of the rights of workers, unions, minorities and women. His cover story in the current Reno News & Review critiques the female majority of the 2019 Nevada Legislature, the first in Nevada or U.S. history. He is unsparing in his criticism lamenting what might have been.

From: Lisa Ruggerio
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:51:23 a.m. PDT
Re: On behalf of Dennis Myers' family

Dear friends:

Dennis’ family is honoring his wishes to support the lives of others through organ donation. The hospital has been keeping his body alive for organ viability. A donor recipient has just been located for his liver. There will be an honor walk for our beloved Dennis today Monday, August 27, 2019 at Renown at 1:30 pm in the Sierra Tower ICU waiting room. Those who loved Dennis are welcome to attend.

Lisa

The Greatest Of All Time
Sparks Tribune 8-28-2019

 

Myers was honored with a trove of state and national awards during a long journalistic career and this month was nominated for the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame. He will become the first journalist inducted into the César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame at the next Nevada Chávez Day, March 31, 2020.

For many years, he e-mailed a daily "Poor Denny's Almanac," a popular and whimsical compendium of facts from yesterday as they apply today. Even his free bulletin occasionally made national news. Citing computer problems, he recently stopped publishing the upload. He would notify his subscribers of important non-mainstream movies which might have only a one-afternoon showing in Reno.

Myers was a journalist from his earliest days. His "Report from Reno High School" was featured in the Nevada State Journal in the mid-1960s.

He graduated from Reno High and attended the University of Nevada-Reno, where he wrote for The Sagebrush student newspaper.

"Dennis and I got together at the Sagebrush 150-year event last year. I worked closely with him for 13 years at the 'Brush and KTVN TV-2" remembered retired reporter Buddy Frank.

Myers became a fixture at both Channel 2 and KOLO TV-8 but he never washed the ink from his fingers. In the 1980s and into the 2000s, his column appeared in the Sparks Tribune and the Las Vegas Business Press, among many others. He was also a staff writer for the Tribune for several years before moving to the Reno News & Review. He was a contributing editor to one incarnation of Reno Magazine and also served as editor of the UNR Alumni News in the 1970s when he also sat as vice-chair of the Reno Commission on the Status of Women. He covered the Nevada Legislature for Reno and Las Vegas radio stations during that time.

He was a US Army veteran and became a military policeman while stationed in Europe. He was a regular contributor to the Pahrump Valley Times until his illness.

"How do you replace THAT guy?" asked RNR columnist and longtime Nevada radio personality Bruce Van Dyke. "Answer: don't even bother trying. Truly irreplaceable," he added. 

Myers served as state chair of the Nevada Young Democrats in the mid-1970s. He was one of two media consultants who worked on Maya Miller's 1974 primary US Senate campaign. He was Democratic nominee for State Senate in 1976, defeated by Republican heavyweights Cliff Young and Bill Raggio. His candidacy was supported by Reno Democratic senate legends Spike Wilson and Mary Gojack. His campaign issues included consumer and women's issues.

"He called for increased funding for programs to cut the rising number of repeat criminal offenders and to combat juvenile delinquency," the Nevada State Journal reported on July 12, 1976.

"Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) remains the first priority of the 1977 session," he told the newspaper, adding that "action is also needed immediately to alter a number of Nevada laws which discriminate on the basis of sex."

He also supported Gojack's eventually successful repeal of the sales tax on groceries and Assemblymember Steve Coulter's, D-Reno, generic drug substitution legislation. Myers said he would introduce a bill to bring the legislature under the state's open meeting law.

To this day, the legislature remains exempt and failed to pass the ERA until 2017.

Myers briefly left journalism in 1987-88 when Secretary of State Frankie Sue Del Papa appointed him as her chief deputy. He is co-author of Uniquely Nevada, a children’s history textbook, and a contributor to the books The Mythical West and Covering the Courts in Nevada.

"He was the best that ever was," Barbano asserted, "Nevada journalism's GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). I'll put his work up against anyone's since statehood," he added. "The GOAT's future was written in the stars at birth: He was a Capricorn."

Myers received the 2017 Media Representative of the Year Award from the Truckee Meadows Human Services Coalition.

Introducing Myers, Progressive Leadership Alliance Executive Director Bob Fulkerson said "Dennis Myers is the conscience of Nevada's journalism community, having devoted his life to this region and its people. His deep knowledge of Nevada's history combined with the values he shares with the social justice community have contributed immensely to the improvement of the social condition in our state, and offers us a vision of where we need to go, knowing he will be there to chronicle the challenges, mis-steps and successes along the way."

It is always difficult if not impossible to replace an innovative champion.

When 1972 Indianapolis 500 winner Mark Donohue was killed at the 1975 Formula One Austrian GrandPrix, one of Myers' TV colleagues ironically raised a question that applies to Myers today.

The late Autoweek Editor and Myers Channel 2 associate Leon Mandel noted that Donohue was such a brilliant constructor that NASA engineers once came to Road Atlanta to inspect and marvel at his CanAm Porsche 917. (The car was later driven by State Sen. Randolph Townsend, D- and R-Reno.)

Asked why, the NASA heavyweights responded "Because his car does what it's designed to do so perfectly well."

Such was Dennis Myers. Mandel concluded his retrospective quoting another car designer: "I know this will work because Mark Donohue said it would. Now who do I ask?"

That is exactly where Dennis Myers' death leaves his Nevada.

"I weep the tears of transfiguration for my old friend," Barbano mourned.

Monitor NevadaLabor.com for memorial and other information. [UPDATE 9-4-2019: MEMORIAL EVENT ANNOUNCED][En Español — La Voz Hispana En Nevada 9-18-2019]

Please send any additions, clarifications or corrections to Barbano at <barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us>.


    Reach out your hand if your cup is empty.
If your cup is full, may it be again.
    Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men.
— Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter    

Be well. Raise hell. Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (And my French.)
Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)

¡Sí se puede!
___________________

Andrew Barbano is a 50-year Nevadan, executive producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration, first vice-president and political action chair of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, superannuated labor/consumer/civil rights advocate, member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO and editor of NevadaLabor.com and BallotBoxing.US and SenJoeNeal.org and DoctorLawyerWatch.com and Protect Our Washoe.org/ As always, his opinions are strictly his own. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us. He has lived in both northern and southern Nevada during his half-century+ in the Silver State. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since 1988 and received its ninth Nevada Press Association award (6th first-place) at the 29 Sept. 2018 NPA annual convention in Las Vegas. His multi-media road construction zone safety campaign for Laborers' Union Local 169 won a first-place award from the National Safety Council in a nationwide competition. (Such ephemera and about six bucks will get you a Latte Mocha Cotsafracas Chingade at just about any Starbux worldwide, guaranteed.) His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian of London/UK and more important publications.

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Eldorado-Caesars merger means labor union battles far beyond Reno & Las Vegas
Culinary Union leader D. Taylor: "Where are they going to cut?"
Building trade union campaigns continue
By Ed Komenda / Reno Gazette-Journal / 6-27-2019

[4-20-2019] — About 100 demonstrators from almost all the region's unions, local community service organizations and political activists joined Culinary Union members picketing Circus Circus in the late afternoon of April 18. A couple of CC suits came out to see what all the fuss was about, as if they didn't already know. In addition to the familiar union "contract now!" chants came calls for a strike against the Carano jocks. ¡Viva Huelga! ¡Sí se puede!

REAL NEWS DEPT. In January 2019, Culinary Union Local 226 defeated an attempt by Circus Circus-Reno to decertify (terminate) the union's representation of its workers. No word on whether management plans to appeal the result to the National Labor Relations Board which was recently put out of business for 35 days. Thank you, Czar Donaldov.

CONSUMER CONUNDRUMS: PINK SLIPS, PURGES AND PRUNING. I need to hear from recently purged Eldorado Hotel-Casino, Circus Circus-Reno and Silver Legacy employees. Barbwire spies report perhaps 100 workers got the ax just in time for the 2018 holidays. In the Tribune, at Barbwire.US and in the London Guardian, I have lamented the deepening desperation of renters here in Tesla Valhalla. I'm now getting complaints about medical and dental practices purportedly pruning their patient loads, cutting loose the less-lucrative. That's de facto malpractice but medical professionals are lawsuit-proof under Nevada law — unless you're rich enough to personally pay a few hundred grand in legal fees. That's why TV lawyers only advertise for arrest or accident cases these days. If you've been cast adrift by patient pruning, call me at (775) 882-TALK or e-mail me.


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Nevadian Dennis Myers: The Greatest Of All Time
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Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 4-10-2019 Sparks Tribune / Updated 4-11 and 4-12-2019 GMT
Fairness for tenants dies 4-12 unless lawmakers throw it a lifeline

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Editor's Note: The Guardian publishes 180,000 newspapers daily in London and environs and generates ONE BILLION monthly web page views. (I should live so long.)
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BLACK LIKE ME 2119: The problem as solution
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 2-13-2019 Sparks Tribune / Updated 2-14 and 2-16-2019
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Dear Readers: The above column served as the conclusion of remarks I submitted before the "Tahoe Talks: Racism in America" symposium at the Incline Village, Nev., Library on February 12, 2019. So you might want to read "FADE TO BLACK" before you read "Black Like Me 2119".



$75 dead or alive: Still crazy after all these years
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory owners Max Blank and Isaac Harris. Is not Mr. Harris eerily familiar to television junkies?
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The "shirtwaist kings" immigrated from Russia and made a fortune manufacturing "Gibson Girl"-style blouses. (Photo, "The American Experience"/PBS)
 The Emmy-winning opening slate of the "Cheers" television series before the "slate" of creators is superimposed. Looks like Mr. Harris' dead ringer (at left) is having a bloody good time.

"Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" — Chico Marx disguised as Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup" (1933)
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Andrew Barbano is a 50-year Nevadan, editor of NevadaLabor.com and SenJoeNeal.org; and former chair of the City of Reno's Citizens Cable Compliance Committee. He is the executive producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration and serves as first vice-president and political action chair of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us.

Barbwire by Barbano moved to Nevada's Daily Sparks Tribune on Aug. 12, 1988, and has originated in them parts ever since.
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