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— Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth

UPDATED 5-19-2024

Another public relations coup for Nevada
The poster child for TItle IX womens' sports abuse? The University of Nevada-Reno, a male chauvinist pigsty.

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

COMPUTERS & PERIPHERALS NEEDED TO HELP LOCAL STUDENTS

¡Viva Chávez!
César Chávez Celebration XVIII / Celebración de César Chávez XVIII
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Back to the Future —> Nevadans enjoy living in the past

     One look at the headlines hereinbelow and you will never again be able to say that Nevada doesn't care about education. We care a lot. We're just not willing to pay for it.

     Getting somebody else to cover our markers was originally supposed to be the whole point of a gambling/tourism-based economy. Gambling constitutes the voluntary taxation of mostly somebody else's citizens. That's how follyticians find it so easy to go into partnership with the addictive vices—>booze, nicotine and other drugs both somewhat legal and sometimes illegal, sexual exploitation, the casting of lots and the rape and pillage of our lands, skies and waters.
      W.C. Fields once warned that "I will bend every effort to win and I come from a long line of effort benders."
     The gambling-industrial complex has bent us over, but good. Along with its fellow exploitive...er...extractive industry, mining, they have proven to be masterful tax avoiders, privatizing prurient profit while sadistically socializing their risk. No wonder I've been getting more anti-social the longer I've lived here.
     This latter-day Don Quixote is now riding into his sixth decade of tilting at pretty much the same auld windmills. (See the War Rooms, below).
     I welcome newcomers, Sancho or otherwise. We need all the help we can get. But unless you dwell in the upper-middle or higher-income classes, you should really look toward moving somewhere else to educate your children.
     We possess the devices with which to cure our vices, we just choose not to.
     At Reno's Depression Deli in 1982, I said Nevada would eventually have to make a choice between becoming a for-real modern state or reverting back to the popular image we've never been able to shake, that of a wild west boomtown mining camp. We enjoy living in the romantic and largely mythological past. Recent decades (actually since 1981) have seen us plunge headlong toward the 19th Century.
     To bend a cliché, Nevada really has just two kinds of people—>Ask yourself if you're part of the problem or part of the solution. Alas, most of us partake in both. So don't answer that one. Answer this: For what purpose do you think you ended up here in the High Desert Outback of the American Dream?
     Foolishly and fortunately, Don Quixotes and Sancho Panzas never take the advice foisted onto them countless times over endless time: Dream more impossible dreams but fight fewer unbeatable foes. And so it goes.
     What a long, strange trip it's been.
     Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.

Admiration and apologies to Pablo Picasso.

USA at crossroads: New Deal or new Confederacy?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-10-2013 Sparks Tribune
UPDATE—>Bill Moyers: Shutdown is simply secession by other means

It's long been very personal: Blasts from our very checkered past
Fatal Conservatism: Killing our bodies and our minds
Expanded from the 4-2-2006 Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune
UPDATED 8-8-2006, 1-16-2008, 3-9-2008, 4-6-2008, 1-16-2011, 1-16-2014

Eee-yo-leven
Barbwire wins 11th Nevada Press Association award (6th Gold)

INCLUDING scooping the nation on the ongoing Yerington High School racism scandals

8 the hard way!
Barbwire wins 8th Nevada Press Association award

   Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.
   Everybody knows the war is over.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
   Everybody knows the fight was fixed.
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich.
   That's how it goes. Everybody knows...
Everybody knows the scene is dead
   But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
   What everybody knows...
   Everybody talking to their pockets.
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
   and a long red rose.
   Everybody knows. Everybody knows.
That's how it goes. Everybody knows.

— Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016

I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island.
—Leon Russell, 1942-2016

We don't need no education
The neverending series
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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

Abandon hope all ye who enter here
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-22-2023

Fire is the Devil's Only Friend
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 1-13-2021 Sparks Tribune

Tribal trauma, Belarus R Us & a hero dies well
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 8-26-2020 Sparks Tribune

COMPUTERS & PERIPHERALS NEEDED TO HELP LOCAL STUDENTS

NOW!

Lemmings, ostriches & dirty-talking desert rats
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 8-19-2020 Sparks Tribune

Fair warning to the rich, famous & powerful
Back to school should not be Russian Roulette —> Play Hooky instead
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 7-15-2020 Sparks Tribune

Re-name former Hug High for Dolores Feemster
By William C. Webb, John A. White, Jr. and Andrew Barbáno / RGJ.com 5-7-2020 / Reno Gazette-Journal op-ed 5-10-2020

Make Dolores Feemster's light shine brightly
Renaming of former Hug High before school board Tuesday, May 12
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 5-6-2020 Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XCII—>
People get ready, that train's a comin'
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Special Barbwire Confidential Internet Edition 11-12-2019 / Updated 11-14 & 11-15-2019
A version of this column appeared in the Wednesday 11-13-2019 Sparks Tribune
An excerpt from the above was included in Andrew Barbano's address to the school board on Nov. 12.
SPECIAL REPORT FROM THE SCENE OF THE CRIME:
Clever maneuver prevents vote after 4 of 7 trustees announced support to name school for Dolores Feemster.

We Don't Need No Education Part XCI—>
DO NOT risk your kids at Golden Eagle Park
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 11-6-2019 Sparks Tribune

Tale of 2 city halls: Cancer kids & brain damage
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 10-30-2019 Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XC—>
Written in the stars: UNR football for racial justice
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-23-2019 Sparks Tribune

Broken Promises in Boomtown —>

Drug Addiction: Nevada's Chronic Corporate Welfare Tax Giveaways

Nevada corporate welfare queens rip off megabux from dumb hick taxpayers
By James De Haven / rgj.com 7-22 / Reno Gazette-Journal 7-28-2019

Corporate welfare ripoffs — Nevada business as usual
By Former Sen. Sheila Leslie, D-Reno / Reno News & Review 7-25-2019

TURNING TRICKS QUESTION: Is Nevada’s corporate welfare paying off?
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-18-2019

Assemblymember Skip Daly, D-Sparks, has criticized Gov. Steve Sisolak for vetoing Assembly Bill 444 which would have created a legislative committee to review Nevada's epidemic of corporate tax breaks.
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 7-3-2019 Sparks Tribune

Corporate Welfare War Rooms: Cabellyup with Cabela's & Scheel's et al + Nevada Corporate Welfare Archives

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXIX—>

The Sting, spike heels, green eggs & ham
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 7-31-2019 Sparks Tribune

A cuckoo coup and a president, too
Barbwire exclusive: Secret 2017 meeting set the setup in motion
"The firing of Traci Davis was nothing short of a long-term, well-orchestrated coup."
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 7-24-2019 Sparks Tribune

Washoe County School Board fires superintendent after 6-1 vote
By Kayla Anderson / Sparks Tribune 7-3-2019

[July 1, 2019] — Reno Sparks NAACP President Lonnie Feemster observes Traci Davis speaking to reporters after her termination. [Photo: John Byrne, Sparks Tribune]

Reno News & Review Traci Davis Trilogy
Reno's alternative weekly newspaper makes criticism unanimous among major local print media

Board of Bunglers: School board fails to make case against Davis
Reno News & Review Editorial / 7-11-2019

No one came off looking good in l'Affaire Davis Telenovela
Censoring and barring outstanding N. Valleys High School valedictorian subsumed by board bickering
Former State Sen. Sheila Leslie / Reno News & Review 7-11-2019

Now what? Interview with interim school board boss
Sparks Tribune Barbwire and This is Reno website decry Davis debacle
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-11-2019

Alfred E. Neuman for Washoe school superintendent
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 7-10-2019 Sparks Tribune

Witness at the execution: School superintendent fired 6-1
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the Wednesday 7-3-2019 Sparks Tribune

Gang banging on 9th Street
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Special Barbwire Confidential Extra Edition / 7-1-2019

SUMMER SCHOOL HEAT: Showdown looms July 1, 2019 as Reno-Sparks school district attempts to fire superintendent Traci Davis

MayDay for renters, movie fans and avengers
Alas, another Barbwire Peerless Predixion Prevails—>Caudill cavorts with Angle's acolytes
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 5-1-2019 Sparks Tribune

SIDDOWN AND SHADDUP!
Nevada high school bars outstanding valedictorian from speaking at graduation
By Siobhan McAndrew / rgj.com/Reno Gazette-Journal / 6-21 & 6-25 2019

A pledge of allegiance for our empire's children
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-28-2018 Sparks Tribune

Fake boobs and fake news: Guts, feathers and all
Another public relations coup for Nevada: Teslacide
In The Guardian/London & worldwide, Barbano and Nevada conservatives decry corporate welfare depredations
Menlo Park and Reno-Sparks-Fernley share similarly sad high-tech stretch marks
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 7-4-2018 Sparks Tribune

Just when you thought there was no good news
Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 4-25-2018 Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXVIII—>
Flying machines in pieces on the ground
Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 4-11-2018 Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXVII—>
Marked for life for making a phone call
Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 4-4-2018 Sparks Tribune

A world in fear: It's always 9/11 somewhere
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 3-14-2018 Sparks Tribune

And a little child shall lead them

Wednesday, March 14: National student walkout for gun control. Stand by for detention, you rambunctious little protestors. The University of Nevada-Reno says OK. The Washoe County School District says you're busted, you truant juvenile delinquents.

DETENTION JUNCTION: Reno-Sparks students will risk reprisals for walking out against guns
By Siobhan McAndrew / Reno Gazette-Journal 3-13-2018

Walkout date is an opportunity for Washoe students
Washoe School District Trustee Scott Kelley Op-Ed / Reno Gazette-Journal 3-13-2018

Hope for a nation more interested in butt control than gun control — Andrew Barbano, Sparks Tribune, 3-14-2018

Thursday, March 15: Hoop, food and loot on the Ides of March. The Reno-Sparks NAACP Youth Council hosts a meet-and-greet with players from the Reno Bighorns NBA Developmental League pro basketball team. Autographed swag for kids. Where and when: Godfathers Pizza, 645 Booth Street near Reno High School, 5:30-7:00 p.m. For information, contact Youth Council Chair Christin Smith (775) 544-2288 or Branch President Patricia Gallimore (775) 322-2992.

Saturday, March 17: St. Patrick's Day at the ballgame. Reno-Sparks NAACP Charity Night with the Bighorns. Tickets $10 via pre-sale thru the Branch. Proceeds benefit the Branch scholarship fund for local youth. For information, contact Youth Council Chair Christin Smith (775) 544-2288 or Branch President Patricia Gallimore (775) 322-2992.

Saturday, March 24: March for Our Lives — and against guns — March 24 in front of the Bruce Thompson Federal Building, W. Liberty at S. Virginia-Reno, 11:30 a.m., concluding at the Reno City Hall BELIEVE PLAZA at 1:30 p.m. Info: Nnedi Stephens, 775-338-4561...FREEBIE ALERT: Same day, 11:00 a.m. March 24, stylish hat party and free lunch for womens' rights; Evelyn Mount Center, Valley Road, Reno 89512.

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXVI—>
Terrorism in the Nevada outback
Mississippi West 2018: Sexy moral depravity abides
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 1-31-2018 Sparks Tribune and affiliated publications

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXV—>
Awards season: bad bids, bad hits and bad attitudes
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 1-24-2018 Sparks Tribune and affiliated publications

True racism means never having to say you're sorry
Endemic racism in Washoe and Lyon County schools
Blushing Violet Warning: Uncensored dirty pictures attached

"The good Lord created the world. Mankind built the cities.
And the Devil thunk up the small town." — Auld folk wisdom

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXIV—>
Bizarro R Us: Win bar bets predicting the 51st state
Terrorism in the Nevada outback
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 1-17-2018 Sparks Tribune and affiliated publications

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXIII—>
The spirits of MLK and Bull Connor live right here
Terrorism in the Nevada outback
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 1-10-2018 Sparks Tribune / Updated 1-11 and 1-12-2018

Civil Rights Advocacy Rewarded

Reno-Sparks NAACP efforts result in 2 nominations among 7 finalists for Reno Gazette-Journal Citizen of the Year Award
By Editorial Page Editor Brett McGinness
Reno Gazette-Journal / Sunday 12-24-2017

Former four-time Reno-Sparks NAACP President Lonnie Feemster's tireless activism in the Yerington High School racism case has won local and national attention. Swope Middle School teacher Todd Bodensteiner had his students write to the abused Yerington teens who visited his Reno class. Mr. Bodensteiner is now a Citizen of the Year finalist as is the late Reno-Sparks NAACP Executive Committee Member Darryl Feemster, Sr. (1962-2017). He was nominated by Reno-Sparks Branch First Vice-President Andrew Barbano. The winner will be announced in the Sunday, December 31, 2017, Reno Gazette-Journal. Thanks to all involved with the Branch for their membership and involvement and for the support we have received both in Nevada and nationally. Keep up the good work and the good fight. — AB

Darryl K. Feemster, Sr. 1962-2017
A sojourn into the life of a fallen Nevada giant
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-29-2017 Sparks Tribune

Protecting and serving whom?

THE VISIT: Bullied Yerington teens inspired by letters from Reno students
By Siobhan McAndrew / rgj.com 12-12-2017 / Reno Gazette-Journal front page 12-13-2017

Half of Yerington's high school students skip school despite debunked rumor of school shooting
By Amy Alonzo, Mason Valley News 12-8 & 9 / Reno Gazette-Journal 12-9-2017

Where credit is due: Who's on first?
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 12-7-2017

Bullied Yerington teens get letters of support from Reno middle school students
By Siobhan McAndrew / rgj.com 11-29, Reno Gazette-Journal 12-1-2017

Yerington sheriff and police chief kill racism investigations and cover their kids' asses
By Siobhan McAndrew / Reno Gazette-Journal 11-30-2017 rgj.com 11-29-2017

Nevada racism runs rampant + Yerington reader comment from Mason Valley News
By Sheila Leslie / Reno News & Review 11-30-2018

Lyon County officials say they 'stand against' racism & discrimination after recent events
By Kenzie Bales / KRNV TV-4, KRXI TV-11 / Nov. 28, 2017

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXII—>
Thanksgibleting 2017: Success, sorrow & sustenance
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-22-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 11-23-2017

Standing with Taylissa and Jayla: Politicians and others show support for bullied Yerington teens
By Siobhan McAndrew/ Reno Gazette-Journal front page 11-22-2017

Did Yerington police mishandle racial bullying investigation?
By Joe Hart / KRNV TV-4 11-22-2017

A bullying nightmare
Two black teens face overt racism at Yerington High and they say no one is stopping it
Sunday front page lead story by Siobhan McAndrew
Reno Gazette-Journal print edition 11-19-2017 / online 11-18-2017

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXI—>
Brain damage means never having to say you're sorry
Nevada's Most-Censored News Stories of 2017
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-15-2017 Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXX—>
The poisoning of old Pizen Switch proliferates
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-1-2017 Sparks Tribune

Racial bullying angers Yerington parents
By Ed Pearce / KOLO TV-8 10-26-2017 / Updated 10-27-2017

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXIX—>
Mississippi West don't need no education
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-25-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 10-29 and 10-30-2017 GMT

The 9th Muse
Barbwire wins 9th Nevada Press Association award (6th Gold)

2018 Nevada Press Association first-place award-winner (one of three)
We Don't Need No Education Part LXXVIII—>
You've got to be taught to learn to hate
NATIONAL NEWS FIRST-BREAK FIVE WEEKS AHEAD OF THE LEGIT MEDIA. First in a series.
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-18-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 10-19 and 10-29-2017 GMT

Nevada students denied diplomas over failed exams get shot at redemption
By Meghin Delaney / Las Vegas Review-Journal 10-20-2017

Bitter Lesson: Sierra Nevada College firings prompt union charges
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-10-2017

Education Dysfunction Part LXXVII—>
Flint Michigan, Sparks-Reno style
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 6-28-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 6-29-2017

Education Dysfunction Part LXXVI—>
May Day for Labor Day
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 5-2-2017 Sparks Tribune

We don't need no dirty pictures
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-7-2017 Sparks Tribune

The Gorsuch Nonesuch: Poison Annie's Revenge
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-7-2017 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LXXV—>
Year-end or end of times?
Smoking gun: throwing more money at public schools actually works
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-27-2016 Sparks Tribune

2017 Nevada Press Association GOLD AWARD WINNER
Education Dysfunction Part LXXIV—>
We don't need no education
What's a little cancer or brain damage as long as graduation rate projections remain rosy?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-13-2016 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LXXIII—>
The Barbwire billion-dollar cure for what ails us
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-29-2016 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LXXII—>
Toxins, turkeys, takeovers and true Nevadians
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-22-2016 Sparks Tribune

Distinguished Nevada educator Dr. Debra Feemster elected to Washoe County School District Board of Trustees

Education Dysfunction Part LXXI—>
If you voted early, read this and regret it
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-8-2016 Sparks Tribune

Democrats for Trump

Barbwire exposes Trump running mate

Stop making cents: How the sales tax became a monster
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 9-22-2016

Nailing it down: Rumor mill churns on school taxes
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 9-22-2016

Report: Rise in poverty threatens to further weaken Nevada education system
Ian Whitaker / Las Vegas Sun 7-7-2016

We'll be number one in just 140 years!
Still behind Mississippi — Nevada up one spot to 49th in education
Neal Morton / Las Vegas Review-Journal 6-20-2016

Reno Gazette-Journal manufactured WCSD open meeting law firestorm
Editorial by Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 6-9-2016

Education Dysfunction Part LXX—>
Students exposed to toxic, lead-laden, cancer-causing phony turf
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-7-2016 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LXIX—>
Be careful what you wish for: Justice is a game
State Senate Republican Majority Leader: Funding at 1992 levels
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-10-2016 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LXVIII—>
New Washoe school super beats the same old drum
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 3-22-2016 Sparks Tribune

Nevadian hemlock: Cancer, brain damage & anti-education with a twist of racism

12-14-2015: Sparks council allows unlicensed plumbers & electricians

Faraday's fair name befouled in fallow fields of North Vegas
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-22-2015 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LXVII—>
And we didn't even get kissed afterward
Barbwire by Barbano / Sparks City Council Special online report 12-14-2015

Education Dysfunction Part LXVI—>
Don't diminish value of technical education
SAFETY WARNING: Sparks City Council votes Dec. 14 to allow unlicensed plumbers & electricians
Guest editorial from Stan Jones and Andrew Barbano
Reno Gazette-Journal online 12-10-2015 / Print edition 12-14-2015

Listen to radio campaign rallying Sparks workers & citizens
Featuring the voices of Jim McClain, Donna Lewis and Andrew Barbano

NAACP unanimously opposes removal of licensing standards

     WHEREAS the NAACP has always supported the need for an educated workforce,
     AND WHEREAS the City of Sparks is proposing to remove licensing qualification requirements for plumbers and electricians,
     BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Reno-Sparks NAACP opposes passage of Sparks City Council Agenda Item No. 10.2 on its 14 December 2015 agenda, which would remove all such licensing qualification standards.

— Passed unanimously at the 12-10-2015 Reno-Sparks NAACP general membership meeting

Education Dysfunction Part LXV—>
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap—again and again
Contact your Sparks councilcritters at (775) 353-2311.
Find ward maps and e-mail addresses at http://cityofsparks.us/city-services/mayorcouncil-and-manager/
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-8-2015 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LXIV—>
Turf and training: Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-1-2015 Sparks Tribune / Updated 12-2-2015

Education Dysfunction Part LXIII—>
On artificial turf, don't breathe unless necessary
Toxic turf all over town
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-24-2015 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LXII—>
Sorcerer's apprentices work cheap in Nevada
Want minimum-wage plumbers and electricians building your house?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-17-2015 Sparks Tribune

The Dean's List

The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.

RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006

Barbwire Nominee Guy Richardson elected to Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame on first try

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8 the hard way!
Barbwire wins 8th Nevada Press Association award

GOLD 2017
Don't ask Renown Med for marijuana to help your chemo
10-4-2016
We Don't Need No Education
12-13-2016
Kate Smith & Lady Gaga
2-14-2017

Bronze 6-pack
In the Uber-Nevada legislature, words can kill
4-28-2015
On artificial turf, don't breathe unless absolutely necessary
11-24-2015
Leading questions, lead-headed leaders
1-19-2016

Hopelessly trying to win an earthquake
4-18-2013
2013 Loony Tunes Legislative Lexicon
5-30-2013
The politics of media ga-ga boosterism
3-20-2014

GOLD HAT TRICK
Barbwire wins third straight Nevada Press Association first-place award

The 2009 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners
Tony the Tiger & the flaky NFL
Barbwire / 11-30-2008
Deregulation is never having to say you're sorry
Barbwire / 8-3-2008
Nevada: A good place to visit, but do you want to live here?
Barbwire / 6-15-2008

The 2008 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners
The price of a piece/6-17-2007
Boxing Pandora/9-23-2007
The Lady in the Red Dress
10-28-2007

1997 Pulitzer Prize entries

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Dirt cheap
Congress gave the new state of Nevada 4 million acres to pay for schools.
What happened to them?
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-18-2013
Followup: Fighting over public lands: Does the public care?
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 11-5-2015

Under what authority? Nevada state treasurer plans exceptions to state school law
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 11-19-2015

Education Dysfunction Part LXI—>
Good news, bad news and Machine Gun Michele
Washoe County schools norovirus outbreak spreads
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-6-2015 Sparks Tribune

State findings support family in Sparks Reed High School bullying case
KRNV TV-4 NBC Reno / 9-30-2015

Sacramento mayor and Rheeactionary wife get right-wing millions to fund
private schools at taxpayer expense
Who's Funding Kevin Johnson's Secret Government?
Sister newspaper of Reno News & Review sued for seeking public information
By Dave McKenna / Deadspin/Gawker Media 9-18-2015

Cheering for cheating when jockocracy rules
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 9-15-2015 Sparks Tribune

Another lawsuit challenges religious school tax grants
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 9-17-2015

Parents file second lawsuit against Republican education privatization law
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 9-9-2015

Education Dysfunction Part LX—>
We don't need no education, biblical or not
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 9-8-2015 Sparks Tribune

Washington State Supreme Court: Charter Schools Are Unconstitutional
By John Higgins / The Seattle Times 9-6-2015

Save the Duncan/Traner Community Library
Open house and back-to-school celebration Saturday 8 Aug. 2015 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 1650 Carville Drive, Reno

Education Dysfunction Part LIX—>
Moving the needle and needling the weasels
Education funding hike non-existent / Confederate flags fly in Sparks
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 7-21-2015 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LVIII—>
School, life, death, taxes and other high ironies
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 7-14-2015 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LVII—>
All the news you never knew you needed to know
What education budget increase?
Barbwire by Barbano / Blue text represents substantial expansion from the Tuesday 7-7-2015 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part LVI—>
Al Capone takes stock of Nevada education
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 6-16-2015 Sparks Tribune

César Chávez Celebration XIII / Celebración de César Chávez XIII
Tuesday 31 March 2015 / Martes 31 de Marzo 2015
Highlights of the event at Circus Circus Reno

Education Dysfunction Part LV—>
We don't need no stinking wages!
Barbwire by Barbano / Special online legislative edition 2-26-2015

The skeleton of the underbelly of the news
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-24-2015 Sparks Tribune

BREAKING NEWS AND THEN SOME—>Feb. 19: Winnemucca school evacuated, all Feb. 20 classes cancelled.

Defrocked Washoe School Boss Pedro Martinez a finalist for Boston, Mass., job.
Will that jinx a potential Patriot Super Bowl repeat?

Education Dysfunction Part LIV—>
Parsing our parsimonious public pursers
New Washoe school boss announces she has ended former Superintendent Morrison's practice of cooking the books
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-17-2015 Sparks Tribune

Washoe school boss addresses NAACP

Education Dysfunction Part LIII—>
Gov. Veto El Obtusè talks some trash
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-20-2015 Sparks Tribune

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Get Outta Dodge, Part Deux
ToljaSo Dept.—>Read the following late-breaking dispatches about The Music Man scoring tar and feathers in the Tar Heel country of North Carolina, then remember how Heath Morrison created a climate of fear here.
Take special note of the Barbwires of 5-13 and 5-20-2012

Bully boy run out on a rail
North Carolina reader: "They had the opportunity to hire locally, but chose to hire Officer Dangle from Reno 911." Ouché!

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools general counsel recommended to the school board that Superintendent Heath Morrison be fired in a report completed days before he abruptly announced he would resign.
BY ANDREW DUNN / Charlotte Observer 11-5-2014 They had the opportunity to hire locally, but chose to hire Officer Dangle from Reno 911.

Morrison resigned as CMS superintendent after investigation into misconduct allegations
BY ANDREW DUNN AND ANN DOSS HELMS / Charlotte Observer 11-4-2014

Former Reno-Sparks-Washoe school boss Morrison gets outta Dodge. Again.
Morrison leaves Charlotte Mecklenberg two days after his Nevada replacement packs up
BY ANDREW DUNN AND ANN DOSS HELMS / Charlotte Observer / Lakeview Pilot 11-3-2014

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Education Dysfunction Part LII—>
Follytix '14: Year of the Topless Campaign
Filling in the few gaps in Myers' awesome story
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-28-2014 Sparks Tribune

At Last: Journalist Myers deconstructs what happened the day Martinez melted down
Nevada attorney general succumbs to Reno paper's reprehensible rabble-rousing
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 10-23-2014

UPDATE 11-11-2014: Reno News & Review News Editor Dennis Myers discussed his extensive research on Washoe County and statewide education issues on this morning's edition of Nevada Newsmakers with Sam Shad. It may be viewed this evening at 9:30 on Charter Cable Channel 190 in Reno-Sparks-Washoe. Click here for the full statewide re-run schedule. Shad and Myers get into what started allegations of non-existent racism and how the Reno Gazette-Journal dropped journalistic ethics to become a player in the witch hunt. Myers' key October article is linked above.

Martinez deposed in school safety case
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 10-23-2014

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Taxpayers taken for Teslacide demo ride
Crumbs thrown to education to grease the deal

Education Dysfunction Part LI—>
Cheap thrills: Sex banned in Gomorrah South
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-14-2014 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part L—>
True confessions from the back of the bus
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-7-2014 Sparks Tribune

Reno Gazette-Journal improperly leads fight to recall school board
Reno News & Review Editorial / 10-2-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLIX—>
We don't need no education: Leaks R Us
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-30-2014 Sparks Tribune

46th of 50: Nevada 4th least-educated state. Whadya expect?
24/7Wall St.com / 9-27-2014

Clark County School District's secret sex education talks fuel parent ire
By Trevon Milliard / Las Vegas Review-Journal 9-27-2014

School district sex education proposals astonish some Gomorrah South parents
By Trevon Milliard / Las Vegas Review-Journal 9-22-2014

The Dean's List

The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.

RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006

Barbwire Nominee Guy Richardson elected to Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame on first try

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Barbwire wins 8th Nevada Press Association award

GOLD 2017
Don't ask Renown Med for marijuana to help your chemo
10-4-2016
We Don't Need No Education
12-13-2016
Kate Smith & Lady Gaga
2-14-2017

Bronze 6-pack
In the Uber-Nevada legislature, words can kill
4-28-2015
On artificial turf, don't breathe unless absolutely necessary
11-24-2015
Leading questions, lead-headed leaders
1-19-2016

Hopelessly trying to win an earthquake
4-18-2013
2013 Loony Tunes Legislative Lexicon
5-30-2013
The politics of media ga-ga boosterism
3-20-2014

GOLD HAT TRICK
Barbwire wins third straight Nevada Press Association first-place award

The 2008 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners
The price of a piece/6-17-2007
Boxing Pandora/9-23-2007
The Lady in the Red Dress
10-28-2007

1997 Pulitzer Prize entries

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Education Dysfunction Part XLVIII—>
St. Elon, Lord Pedro and Gov. Veto El Obtúsè
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-16-2014 Sparks Tribune
9-23 CRYSTAL BALL UPDATE: The above column accurately predicted Supt. Martinez's departure one week in advance

Graduation rate increase something to applaud, but party not over
Sparks Tribune Editorial 9-16-2014

Sparks Tribune editor quizzes Supt. Martinez and principals about grad rate critics
Dan Eckles / DailySparksTribune.com 9-9-2014, Street edition 9-16-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLVII—>
Door-to-door salesmen and stoner stores
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 9-4-2014

Playing the race card: Suspicions linger in l'affaire Martinez
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-28-2014

Cheapskate ownership: TV reporters impelled toward shallow school board coverage
Reno News & Review Editorial 8-28-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLVI—>
Sexy scandals, whitewashes & black towers
Media overlook federal sex/race/ethnicity investigation into Washoe County School District
Meanwhile, big money is spent strictly on abstinence
State panel to review militarization of police departments
In Nevada visit, new Veterans Administration boss proves all jobs require training
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-21-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLV—>
Bringing serious heat well into the night
Nevadans host moment of silence for Missouri police shooting victim Michael Brown
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-14-2014

Hey, Tesla! Nevada's got a fair deal for you
Steve Sebelius / Las Vegas Review-Journal / 8-13-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLIV—>
Pots and Kettles: Can't we all get along?
BREAKING NEWS: WCSD Vice-President Dave Aiazzi has announced that he has been diagnosed with leukemia and will be resigning by the end of September.
Remember him with healing thoughts and prayers.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-7-2014

Marriage of convenience: Martinez return leaves some issues unsettled
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-7-2014

Happy Un-birthday, Chief Mieras
Reno News & Review Editorial 8-7-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLIII—>
Playing the race card for profit and peril
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 7-31-2014

Shoe now on wrong foot: school board bungled l'affaire Martinez
Reno News & Review Editorial / 7-31-2014

WORD GAMES: Martinez fired? Unfired? Non-fired? Re-fired? Refried? Who's on first?
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-31-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLII—>
We don't need no education or Pedro, either
Reno-Sparks-Washoe school boss fired and unfired
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 7-24-2014

Nevada education ranks dead last in nation for third year running
Dismal placements in children’s health, education, economic security, state of families and community
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 7-22-2014

OLD NEWS IS NEWS AGAIN: Nevada remains a hellhole for children
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-7-2014

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

Washoe school boss Martinez should resign or get axed
Reno News & Review Editorial 7-10-2014

The hardest and fairest questions yet asked of proponents of the teachers gross profits tax initiative
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-10-2014

Las Vegas school chief earns board praise despite intentionally lying about graduation ratest
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 5-16-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLI —>
Negative Optimism: Making the best of being worst
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-8-2014 Sparks Tribune

Nevada winds of indifference always blow against education funding
John L. Smith / Las Vegas Review-Journal 5-7-2014

Nevada State AFL-CIO conventioners join anti-education tax initiative business coalition
Steve Sebelius / Las Vegas Review-Journal 5-2-2014

Mayday!
ED Part XL
Taxes smolder while citizens do slow burn
May Day in Reno, D-Day for teachers' union tax petition
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-1-2014 Sparks Tribune

ED Part XXXIX
Revolution, evolution, devolution & truth dilution
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-24-2014 Sparks Tribune

College athletes need unions, pay
By Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded from the 4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune

Hiding in Plain Sight —>
Barbwire Education Scandals go mainstream 2 years later
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 3-27-2014

2014 Nevada Press Association Award Winner
We Don't Need No Education XXXVIII—>
The politics of media ga-ga boosterism
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-20-2014 Sparks Tribun

State illegally uses tax money vs. teacher tax vote
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-13-2014

We Don't Need No Education XXXVII
Follytix '14: If you don't laugh, you'll cry
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-13-2014 Sparks Tribune

You read it first on the Barbwire —>
Nevada graduation rate rises as students excluded from count
Nice to see Gomorrah South trying to keep up
By Trevon Milliard / Las Vegas Review-Journal 3-9-2014

Dear Mr. Milliard:
    Working with my colleagues at the Reno-Sparks NAACP, I began delving into miraculous graduation rates in April, 2012. Manipulation mania quickly spread from Reno-Sparks-Washoe to southern Nevada and Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina. In a remarkable display of chutzpah, former Washoe County Superintendent Heath Morrison admitted cooking the books to the Charlotte Observer. (See my column of 6-24-2012.)
    I have linked today's story, along with your previous piece of 4-10-2013, to my ever-expanding "We Don't Need No Education" archive.
    Keep up the good work and the good fight.
    Be well. Raise hell.

        Andrew Barbano, Columniator
        The Sparks Tribune
3-9-2014

Déjà vu all over again: Nevada casinos fail to support education
'Twas ever thus in the High Desert Outback of the American Dream
JoeNeal.org

ED Part XXXVI—>Education: The cure spawns an even worse disease
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-20-2014 Sparks Tribune

College values twisted: Unionize college athletes
Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded from the 2-6-2014 Sparks Tribune

The Dean's List

The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.

RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006

Barbwire Nominee Guy Richardson elected to Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame on first try

Support Don Dondero
and Jake Highton next
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8 the hard way!
Barbwire wins 8th Nevada Press Association award

GOLD 2017
Don't ask Renown Med for marijuana to help your chemo
10-4-2016
We Don't Need No Education
12-13-2016
Kate Smith & Lady Gaga
2-14-2017

Bronze 6-pack
In the Uber-Nevada legislature, words can kill
4-28-2015
On artificial turf, don't breathe unless absolutely necessary
11-24-2015
Leading questions, lead-headed leaders
1-19-2016

Hopelessly trying to win an earthquake
4-18-2013
2013 Loony Tunes Legislative Lexicon
5-30-2013
The politics of media ga-ga boosterism
3-20-2014

GOLD HAT TRICK
Barbwire wins third straight Nevada Press Association first-place award

The 2008 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners
The price of a piece/6-17-2007
Boxing Pandora/9-23-2007
The Lady in the Red Dress
10-28-2007

1997 Pulitzer Prize entries

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ED Part XXXV—>
We Don't Need No Education: Time to give up?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-30-2014 Sparks Tribune

All the news you wish you didn't need to know
DISMAL FUTURE: Trying to positively spin Nevada's dead-last Education Week rankings
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-16-2014 Sparks Tribune

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They don't do anything until somebody dies
UNR & downtown Reno theater firetraps mean little was learned from Las Vegas Hilton & MGM disasters
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-12-2013 Sparks Tribune

POOR DENNY'S ALMANAC 11-21-2013 — On this date in 2004, Ray Hagar and Sandi Wright reported in the Reno Gazette-Journal that local schools attended by low income students tended to be the most poorly maintained schools.
THE BARBWIRE RESPONDS: So what else is new? Over the decades, the RGJ has done a sterling job investigating separate but unequal health care and education. Alas and alack, nothing much ever changes on the High Desert Plantation. For a quick sad summary, see the Barbwire of April 2, 2006 (updated periodically).

Remembering another local school murder
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-14-2013 Sparks Tribune

The bloody guns of October fire on November
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-7-2013 Sparks Tribune

Let's persuade Apple to start making i-Guns here
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-24-2013 Sparks Tribune

Prayer vigil for Sparks Middle School shooting victims

Viruses in the program
—>Apple downtown Reno/UNR center was never put in writing
—>Apple burns the mouse pad: Years of union warnings confirmed.
Reno Gazette-Journal editorial demands more transparency in corporate welfare tax giveways like Apple and UNR.
Better late than never?

Barbwire: Nevada not really a state
No, we were not Battle Born in Kenya
Top 10 reasons Nevada lives in the 19th Century
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-17-2013 Sparks Tribune

Sex, sports and rock 'n' roll dept.
Moneyball: Invest in texting, tweeting & twerking
ED Part XXVI—>Reno Gazette-Journal finally 'fesses up the awful truth
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-3-2013 Sparks Tribune

Just like old times: UN,R and Hot August Nights
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-26-2013 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part XXV—>
How to play pro ball and be cruel to your school
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-19-2013 Sparks Tribune

Nevada State AFL-CIO not officially onboard with teachers' K-12 tax initiative despite leader's support
Las Vegas Sun / 8-28-2013

We don't need no education, Part 24
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-22-2013 Sparks Tribune
Web extra — Bill O'Reilly's sex education

Workers & taxpayers protest Apple's lack of transparency
Schools pay the price of corporate welfare

Dirt cheap
Congress gave the new state of Nevada 4 million acres to pay for schools.
What happened to them?
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-18-2013
Followup: Fighting over public lands: Does the public care?
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 11-5-2015
We Don't Need No Education —> The Neverending Series

ED Part XXIII—>
Rosy the poll dancer's destructive seduction
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-20-2013 Sparks Tribune

ED Part XXII—>
The 2013 looney tunes legislative lexicon
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-30-2013 Sparks Tribune

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
By Trevon Milliard / 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-towork-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

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.

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

ED Part XIV: Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

NEVADA'S CANCER KIDS:
New lawsuit claims Fallon cancer cluster isn't over and leaking military jet fuel pipeline is the cause
Superintendent refuses transfers from suspect school

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 master chefs continue cooking the books
[UPDATE 9-17-2012] — TOLJASO DEPT. The Awful Truth: "Successes and Challenges" indeed —
As only the Barbwire predicted last spring, Dr. Heath Morrison's disappointing third-year graduation rate explains why he got outta Dodge after year two.
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 / Humongously expanded from the 9-13-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Tenth in a continuing series on the collapsing future of Nevada education

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
Departing Reno-Sparks-Washoe school boss admits cooking the books
Eighth in a series on the collapsing future of Nevada education
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-24-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Updated 7-17-2012

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

Playing Dixieland - The shell game continues
Fifth in a series on the collapsing future of Nevada education
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-6-2012 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
Updated 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 elsewhere
Have teachers made a deal with the devil? / St. Mary's firings begin
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-8-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Suing for Schools: The 20-year shuck
Expanded from the 2-21-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune
Updated 2-24-2010, 2-27-2010, 3-4-2010, 3-8-2010, 8-30-2011
Education funding lawsuit gains support
Daily Sparks Tribune/ AP 3-18-2011

Below, right: The Nevada University Scandals of 2010-present
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Click here.

Below, left: The Nevada University Scandals of 1996-1997
Please let us know if much has changed.
1997 Barbwire Pulitzer Prize entries are noted with *asterisks*
Category 4 — Explanatory Journalism
Category 9 — Commentary

Janet MacDonald 1941-2012: The beautiful face of honor
The Barbwire fondly remembers the courageous university system treasurer who dared tell the truth
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-29-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

UPDATE: Let there be Rosenbergy again
Term limits or not, vote for Howard Rosenberg anyway, dammit!
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-27-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

Shunting Nevada work to out-of-state carpetbaggers is nothing new

University just won't learn—>
Editorial: Apple deal is a reminder more transparency is needed, including projects at UNR
Apple downtown/UNR deal never put in writing
Reno Gazette-Journal/Sunday 10-20-13

Student achievement center construction project inspires questioning
By Kenny Bissett/UNR Sagebrush 10-8-2013

The smoking gun: UN,R subcontractor hires and exploits undocumented workers
Dennis Myers/Reno News & Review/9-26-2013

Just like old times: UN,R and Hot August Nights
Barbwire by Barbano/Sparks Tribune/9-26-13

UNIONS PROTEST UNR GIVEAWAY ON STUDENT HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
Reno Gazette-Journal front page/9-24-2013

Marginal contractors on UNR job draw Laborers' Union ire and picket line
U-News / 9-19-2013

State of the Unions —>
Non-Nevada contractors, including Apple, continue to plague local workers
Reno Gazette-Journal 9-1-2013

Bullfighting in Tonopah —>
Billion-dollar tax-subsidized solar array goes to shady contractor from sunny Spain
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-11-2011

Nevada workers march to UNR for Nevada jobs
U-News / 5-20-2010

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Oct. 27, 1996, Barbwire began a six-month investigation into the labyrinthine intrigues of the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN), now called the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE). At the suggestion of chess grandmaster and author Larry Evans, most of the 1996 installments, as well as one involving university issues in the following year, were entered by the Sparks Tribune in two categories of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize competition. That ongoing interest in the affairs of higher education has never waned. You may use the NevadaLabor.com search engine to do a keyword search on the occasional treatment of university issues. You will also enjoy the ongoing comments of longtime University of Nevada-Reno journalism Prof. Jake Highton. Be well. Raise hell. — Andrew

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Andrew Barbano is a 50-year Nevadan, editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org; and former chair of the City of Reno's Citizens Cable Compliance Committee, He is producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration and serves as first vice-president, political action chair and webmaster 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.
Whom to blame: How a hall-of-famer's hunch birthed the Barbwire in August of 1987
Tempus fugit.

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