Happy
New Year
/ Feliz Año
Nuevo
May you and yours enjoy a peaceful and prosperous time
Happy
High Holly Days
Bestest
of the grotesquest for 2013
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-27-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
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
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Crash
in Sparks construction zone injures three
Daily
Sparks Tribune / 12-11-2012
UPDATE:
Laborers' Union Local 169
member Cameron Owens was discharged from Renown Regional
Medical Center on Dec. 11. His father and brother are both
members of the union. He stood with his back to the oncoming
car in the middle of the area behind the rear of the truck
at right. Its hydraulic lift was in the position shown. (Look
below the stop sign on the bus.) Cameron's fellow workers
began to shout "car" as they got out of the way
of the auto approaching at 100mph. Cameron dove to his right,
breaking his foot but saving his life. Had he not moved, he
would have been cut in half between the auto and the lift
acting as a blade. He had surgery to place pins and plates
in his foot and is recovering, reinforcing the fact that road
construction work remains one of the most dangerous jobs in
the country. (Photo,
John Russell, Local 169 Field Rep.)
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Peace
on earth, good will to Boise & Nepal
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-6-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Teenage
Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-29-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Triangle
Shirtwaist inferno redux a century down the road:
Bangladesh
killer inferno was Wal-Mart sweatshop
Harold
Meyerson / Washington Post / November 28, 2012
3-25-1911:
New York Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory fire kills 146, including 132 girls
Barbano
back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program
Culinary
union head D. Taylor poised for new challenge as national leader
J. Patrick Coolican / Las Vegas Sun / 11-25-2012
New
lawsuit claims Fallon cancer cluster isn't over and leaking military
jet fuel pipeline is the cause
KRNV
TV-4 (NBC) / 11-12 and 11-20-2012
Hope
you enjoyed a happy Thanksgibleting
Now
dust off your picket signs and get to work!
FRESHLY
UPDATED
TWO
RENO WAL-MART BLACK FRIDAY DEMONSTRATIONS NOV. 23
John
F. Kennedy's 2013 inaugural address
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-22-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Wal-Mart
files charges against UFCW, Black Friday strike still on
Reuters / 11-16-2012
Nevadalabor.com
Wal-Mart Nevada War Room
UFCW
settles with Raley's. Contrary to Raley's PR, this was not their first
strike
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-15-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
The
Twinkie Defense
Call
to action
from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
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back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program
Vote
early and often
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Michael
Moore and Crackers the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken assert
that they have been thrown out of better places.
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Messages
from the Mahatma, last-second scandals and much more
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
NEWS
ROUNDUP TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
...all
of whom are represented by a labor union
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
XI: Instant
replay of rape and pillage
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-11-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Endorsed
candidates (.pdf):
Northern Nevada Central Labor Council/AFL-CIO
Endorsed
candidates complete statewide (.pdf): Nevada State AFL-CIO
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
EXCLUSIVE:
RTC trying to give away
$50 million+ in corporate welfare
U-News
/ 9-21-2012
// Updated 9-24, 9-25 and 9-27, 10-1-2012
Please
don't cook or eat the books
ITALIAN
STEREOTYPE VALIDATED —>
Aiazzi and DiLoreto almost throw blows
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-27-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
The
flipside from an old fry cook
Legit
media stenographers fail to pop the corporate welfare question
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-20-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
A
great week for scandals
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
The
Post-Dated Recession:
Pay me now or pay me later
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-6-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
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SUFFRAGETTES
2012 (Bruce
Thompson Federal Courthouse, Reno NV Aug. 26, 2012) —Left
to right, the signs read Your Body, Your Way / We Can Do
Better / (Missouri
Republican Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Todd) Akins
can kiss my voting booth / My Body My Choice. There are
actually six readable signs in the photo if you count "sandwiches"
in the upper left background and "Do Not Enter"
to the right of Ms. Your Body, Your Way — which
adds a nice touch of irony to this energetic demonstration
on a sunny Sunday morning. Somewhere, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Victoria Claflin Woodhull,
Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Jeannette Rankin, Nancy Gomes, Mary
Gojack, Bella Abzug, Jean Ford and legions of iron-jawed
angels are smiling.
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NEWS
ROUNDUP TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
HOT
AUGUST STRIKE!
AT&T
WORKERS STAGE TWO-DAY WALKOUT IN NORTHEASTERN U.S. AND NEVADA-CALIFORNIA
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
UPDATED
MONDAY, 2 JULY 2012, 4:04:39 p.m. PDT, 23:04:39
ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT — MURPHY'S
LAW POETIC JUSTICE DEPT. —> 28.5 hours after the
divorce of the Reno and Washoe fire departments, a major fire broke
out in one of the two newly unprotected county areas.
Washoe
County Commission Republicans raise taxes and cut fire protection
to damage union
Reno News & Review / 6-28-2012
Pension
abuse: Right wing Chicago group makes up stats to damage Nevada PERS
Reno
News & Review / 6-28-2012
NO
STRIKE —>
Teamsters vote to ratify
new contract with Reno-Sparks-Washoe bus system
UPDATED
FRIDAY,
22 JUNE 2012, 10:59 p.m. PDT, 05:59 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT
June 23 — Reno-Sparks
transit strike possibly averted
UPDATED
THURSDAY,
21 JUNE 2012, 1:08 a.m. PDT, 08:08 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT —
As Charlie Brown might say, rats!
WHITE
RATS — MV Transportation has imported strikebreakers to ride
Reno-Sparks-Washoe RTC buses as passengers to learn the routes and
the town as best they can before the June 22 strike/lockout deadline.
They can be identified by their white shirts and black pants. From
all of us who have been through this a few times before, welcome to
déjà vu all over again. Stay tuned and keep
NevadaLabor.com posted. [MORE]
U-News
6-20-2012 — As
predicted last year, mass firings have begun as the union busters
take over St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno as of June 30
. Looks like the Hot August Strike season may come early this year.
Stay
tuned and keep NevadaLabor.com
posted. [NevadaLabor.com
Health Care War Room]
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
Travus
T. Hipp & Tales of Nevada's Futures Passed
Expanded from the 6-3-2012 Daily
Sparks Tribune
Travus
T. Hipp leaves us laughing and forewarned
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-27-2012 Daily
Sparks Tribune
We
don't need no education
The neverending series
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
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
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
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
