Freeman's
distinguished career included Nevada's first mining reclamation law
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 12-12-2013
Lamenting
the loss of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
12-5-2013 Sparks Tribune
Reader
beware of what's not really there
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
11-28-2013 Sparks Tribune
John
F. Kennedy's 2014 Inaugural Address
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
11-21-2013 Sparks Tribune
Breaking
News and Bulletins—>
Nov. 20: 50th anniversary of Las
Vegas Sun fire / Nov. 21: State Senate Majority leader Mo Denis
headlines informational meeting regarding Driver’s Authorization
Cards / Nov. 23: FOUR Immigration Reform marches in Reno
With
friends like these, who needs enemies?
How
Many More Labor Setbacks Will Occur Before Needed Changes Are Made?
LaborFightBack.org / 11-22-2013
Remembering
another local school murder
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
11-14-2013 Sparks Tribune
UPDATES: Peggy Pierce memorial service and I-80 road construction
deaths
Death
on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable
Updates on two Laborers' Local 169 members killed and two
injured on I-80
Worker dies trimming trees at MGM's Mirage
on Las Vegas Strip
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
Click
above for re-run times and dates
KRNV TV-4 Reno / KENV TV-10 Elko / Monday, Nov. 11, 2013
The
bloody guns of October fire on November
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
11-7-2013 Sparks Tribune
Nevada
Day Required
Reading
The
Lady in the Red Dress
The Barbwire's classic Nevada Day
column written in 1983
The compleat history of the Silver State in
500 words
SO
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Sparks
Tribune 10-31-2013 and previously
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
Barbano
on the Barbwire plots new TV season
Barbwire
Special Web Edition / 10-21-2013
Déjà
vu all over again and again and...
Viruses in the program: Apple downtown Reno/UNR center was never put
in writing. Years of union warnings confirmed—>Las Vegas unions
protest baseball park corporate welfare
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
Clandestine
construction cash: Laborers' Union handbillers take community's case
to UNR students
Union
wants student-moderated public forum
Assemblymember
Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, 1954-2013
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
Sex,
sports and rock 'n' roll dept.
Moneyball: Invest in texting, tweeting & twerking
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
10-3-2013 Sparks Tribune
Nevada
union voters can represent more than one in six
By
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 10-3-2013
Unfortunately,
the opening episode fails to mention that the Texas rebellion,
sanitized by the Alamo myth, was a pro-slavery war.
Late-coming Anglo settlers from slave states were angered
that Mexico had banned slavery. Makes you want to toss your
Davy Crockett pseudo-coonskin cap and plastic Bowie
knife.
Later installments show how the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and union leader César
Chávez
sparked a long-smoldering fire. Check listings for frequent
re-runs of the six-hour
PBS series.
Let your local station know about the
omissions and tell
us what they say. |
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César
Chávez
is featured on the final first-run installment.
Check local listings and pbs.org
for re-runs.
Almanac:
On Oct. 2, 1835, the
Battle of Gonzales, the first skirmish of the Texas
Revolution took place. Texian settlers half-heartedly exchanged
fire with Mexican soldiers near the Guadalupe River. The
Mexican Army finally withdrew. It wasn't much of a fight,
but it was the first.
Latino
Americanos, una serie documental
que marca un hito con sus seis horas presentadas en tres partes.
PBS sacará al aire la serie a nivel nacional en el
otoño de 2013.
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NEW—>In
such dire straits that it now merits its own sordid section
We
Don't Need No Education: The Neverending Series
Laborers'
Union demonstrates at UNR 9/20/13
Worker
files complaint with Dept. of Homeland Security
Update:
Unions protest UNR student housing project giveaway
Reno Gazette-Journal front page/ 9-24-2013
We
Don't Need No Education XXV—>
How
to play pro ball and be cruel to your school
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
9-19-2013 Sparks Tribune
Applecart
Tipping?
Union critics claim Apple/NVEnergy partnership will put ratepayers
at risk
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 9-19-2013
Nevada
unemployed unable to file claims; benefits cut
State: Just wait or go lower-tech
Muhammad
Ali & Sir David Frost faced off here
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
9-5-2013 Sparks Tribune
Reno
City Council rolls over for Waste Management—>again
Barbano:
Workers, ratepayers, taxpayers & competitors all harmed, as usual
Two monopolies for the price of one
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 9-5-2013
Hope
you celebrated your work on
Labor Day!
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LABORING FOR LABOR DAY (6
Sept. 2010) — Union members prepare for the 2010
Virginia City Labor Day Parade. the only such soirée
in Nevada. Left to right are Penny Bueno (holding the
yellow UAW banner) and Bob Bueno, current president
of UAW 2162/AFL-CIO (with the American flag). Holding the
white banner behind the Chevy are Glenda Gravelyn,
left, and Rudy Viola, right, in the Indiana Jones
hat. Rudy is immediate past-president of the local. Doing
his best impression of Uncle Sam on steroids is Robert
"Tuna" Townsend, a member of the Industrial
Workers of the World union.
Grand
Marshall George "Battling" Nelson of the
United Auto Workers Retirees is seated in the 1957
Chevrolet behind driver Mike Murray of UAW 2162. Brother
Nelson reports that the UAW has entered three General Motors
products in the Monday 2 September 2013 event: a 2014
Chevrolet Impala, a 2013 GMC Acadia Denali and a 2013 Cadillac
XTS. In July, the Impala received surprising rave reviews
from Consumer Reports, a legendarily tough crowd.
(UAW 2162 photo)
Labor
Day 2013
State
of the Unions: Labor advocates talk Apple, school taxes, Southeast
Connector, what hurts workers here
By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal Sunday
9-1-2013
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Thousands
may have overtime claims in suit against Cosmopolitan Hotel-Casino
in Las Vegas
Las
Vegas Sun / Associated Press / 8-30-2013
LABOR
DAY THE RIGHT WAY — Las Vegas fast food workers join nationwide demonstrations
for $15 per hour living wage
Las Vegas
Sun / 8-29-2013
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WILL
THE TEAM CHOKE IN THE ROSE BOWL?
8-29-2013: The
Nevada Interscholastic Activities nee Athletic Assn. today
canceled all weekend events due to the forest-fired smoke
polluting the region's air which has already caused at least
one death.
UNR's new football coach has kept his squad in full drills
all month, blithely disclaiming that "we're watching
our asthma guys."
So is self-taught physician Brian Polian just another
morally obtuse dumb jock or crazy like a fox, keeping his
players out in the smog to prepare them for playing UCLA in
the infamous dirty air of Los Angeles?
Be well. Raise hell. —> AB
UPDATE:
On August 31, the Nevada-Reno Wolf Pack lost to No. 21 UCLA
58-20, irrespective of the effusive cheerleading of the local
jockocracy. Former Coach Chris Ault may prove prescient, having
retired when he recognized that the envelope he pushed for
four decades is finally impenetrable. In sports-besotted America,
you just can't run with the pros on a semi-pro budget in a
self-defeating state that believes we
don't need no education.
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Corporate
welfare for downtown casino railroad trench turns into a nine-figure
payday loan for City of Reno
Extension
demands sales tax increase from legislature
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-29-2013
LAWNMOWER
MAN, BLADE RUNNERS AND SMOKE EATERS —> March on Washington
50th anniversary commemorators were hit and endangered by employee
at Reno federal courthouse
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WHO
WAS THAT MASKED MAN, TONTO? All participants in the demonstration
were reminded that breathing is both voluntary and optional.
There is no requirement forcing anyone to inhale Reno's foul
forest-fired air. (Photo
courtesy of L. Martina Young/APoeticBody.com)
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Reno
rally to mark the 50th anniversary of the fabled 1963
March for Jobs and Freedom
10 a.m.–12 noon Saturday, August 24, Bruce Thompson Federal Courthouse,
S. Virginia & Liberty streets
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
Another
public relations coup for Nevada
Report:
Every nursing home in Nevada cited by inspectors
Chronic understaffing in a very lucrative and growing industry
"Nevada
is one of two states where every nursing home was cited with one or
more deficiencies by state health inspectors, and one in three nursing
homes was cited for a severe deficiency, meaning a resident suffered
actual harm or was in imminent danger."
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 8-12-2013
Major
union leaders blast Obamacare for hurting health plans
Labor starts to bail: Democratic health care
plan support erodes
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-1-2013
Full
text of letter to Reid and Pelosi
Workers
& taxpayers protest Apple's lack of transparency
Schools pay the price of corporate welfare
Powerful demonstration at Reno Summit Sierra shopping complex
Newly
updated with video and photos / Power company boss fires back
Visitors:
Is America still tough enough?
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
8-1-2013 Sparks Tribune
The
presence of all colors gives you black
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-25-2013 Sparks Tribune
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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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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
Updated 6-22-2012, 9-8-2012 and 7-13-2013: Appellate
court throws out GOP attempt to nuke nihilistic None of the Above
Blogging
with the rabble on the Tower of Babel
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-11-2013 Sparks Tribune
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
7-8-2013:
Nevada OK's Internet gambling and ignores addiction
Death
panels hard at work right here in River City
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-4-2013 Sparks Tribune
Clarence
Thomas, Little Anthony & the Imperials
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-27-2013 Sparks Tribune
Clinging
to the Ledge
Postmortems
for fun and prophet
Rosy
the poll dancer's destructive seduction
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-20-2013 Sparks Tribune
Googling
for liquid Romanian castanets
Other
than doing our laundry, what should we do about
Big Brother peeking into our collective lace undies?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-13-2013 Sparks Tribune
Enron
II: Nevada's Battle-Born Toxic Event
Indigence
and indigestion from ingestion of Warren Buffett's buffet
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-6-2013 Sparks Tribune
Hotel
casino dealers at Paris and Bally's Las Vegas vote overwhelmingly
to unionize
Las
Vegas Review-Journal / 6-3-2013
The
2013 looney tunes legislative lexicon
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-30-2013 Sparks Tribune
Gov.
Veto El Obtúse rides again
D-DAY
DEFEAT FOR WORKERS' WAGES / 6-6-2013 — Gov.
Veto El Obtúse has vetoed Assembly Bill 218. Feeling invaded?
Prepare for more as he challenges the record of his predecessor, Jim
the Dim, for vetoing anything and everything that might help the little
guy.
5-31-2013
— Nevada Gov. Veto El Obtúse's first veto of the 2013
legislative session came on a bill that would have expanded the rights
of injured and oppressed workers victimized by illegal employment
practices. What did we expect from this guy?
SB180 was a Democrat-backed
measure that would have required courts to award damages, lost wages,
benefits, costs and attorney's fees to workers who prevail in employment
discrimination suits. Existing law caps damages to two years of lost
wages and actual damages. In his veto message, the Republican governor
said the bill goes too far by exposing employers to a wide range of
damages and fees. Gov. Sandoval vetoed 28 bills from the session two
years ago.
Sandoval
vetoes SB180 employment discrimination bill, says it "goes too far"
Cy Ryan / Las Vegas Sun / 5-31-2013
Read
the actual vetoed measure for yourself
Bad
News & Worse News Dept.—>
Former
Nevada Consumer Advocate Jon Wellinghoff to leave FERC chairmanship
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 5-29-2013
Mega-investor
Warren Buffet to acquire NVEnergy
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 5-29-2013
Culinary
Union launches new website warning of potential strikes at hotel
Las Vegas Sun / 5-31-2013
Assembly
Bill 218 to strengthen Nevada prevailing wage law passes both houses
on party line votes
California's
Prop 13 lies at the root of Nevada's fiscal collapse
Dennis
Myers remembers the Tax Shaft of 1981
Reno News & Review / May 23, 2013
Public
shut out of utility legislation, putting ratepayers at risk
Dennis
Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-23-2013
NevadaLabor.com
Energy War Room
MAY
29: Sen. Harry Reid Keynotes Path to Citizenship Public Assembly
Little Flower Church / Kietzke and E. Plumb Ln. / Reno, NV
Details
in the May 23 Barbwire—>
Longing
for the wisdom of the grateful dead
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-23-2013 Sparks Tribune
/ Updated 6-1-2013
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
Mr.
Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
CLINGING
TO THE LEDGE: SB457 (municipal election ward voting for Henderson,
Reno, Sparks and Carson City) comes before the Assembly Legislative
Operations and Elections Committee on May 7 along with SB458 (uniform
election act) and SB325 (plain language ballot). Read
more about them here. Show up and if you can't —>
turn on, tune in and tell a friend. UPDATE: In the finest traditions
of GOP voter suppression, Nevada Gov. Veto El Obtúse vetoed
the bill.
Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon
my Spanglish.)
The
asinine assassination of KJFK talk radio
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-2-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
4-28-2013
National Workers
Memorial Day of the
Dead
You're
not worth much dead or alive
Impose
the death penalty on companies
knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do
you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED
5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary
Gov.
Sandoval's $3 million New York State of Mind
New
Nevada ad campaign slips
on a sideways banana
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
Sunday 4-21-2013 Reno Gazette-Journal
Portions
of the above also appeared in the 4-10-2013 RGJ and
the 4-18-2013 Reno News & Review
Hopelessly
trying to win an earthquake
I
publicly wept when they looked at me.
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-18-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Sitting
ducks in Sparks as storks stalk Carson
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-11-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
César
Chávez's fight continues
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-4-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Join
the campaign for a César
Chávez national holiday
Sign the petition
Tony
Mayorga:
César Chávez event looks like America
Reno Gazette-Journal Guest Commentary
/ 3-28-2013
Gov.
Sandoval, César Chávez and the Grateful Dead
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-21-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Thank
you/gracias for a record attendance
at César Chávez XI.
Watch this website for photos and information about the event. Remember
to mark Monday, 31 March 2014 on your calendar.
Same time. Same place.
¡Sí
se puede!
César
Chávez Celebration XI
Join
us again on Thursday, 28 March 2013
Gov.
Sandoval declines invitation for third year in a row
Celebración
de César Chávez XI
Jueves,
28 de Marzo, 2013 / Circus Circus - Reno
El Gobernador de Nevada, Brian Sandoval,
declinó la invitación por el tercer año consecutivo.
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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 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. (UPDATE: On 3-19-2009, President Obama paid
tribute to Brother Contreras when he spoke in the Los Angeles
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.
|
We
Don't Need No Education: Part XIX—>
Fixing
education: The bulldozer solution
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
AFL-CIO
and NAACP support Obama choice of Perez for new Secretary of Labor
Las Vegas Sun / 3-18-2013
Breaking
Solidarity: Union goes unilateral, striking LV cabbies grumble, strike
expansion considered
Las Vegas
Review-Journal / 3-15-2013
Papa
Francisco Primero: ¡Viva La Revolución!
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Barbano
vs. vindictive lawmakers: Cutting prevailing wages won't stimulate
economy
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13
Nevada’s
privileged mining industry battles the future with ‘campaign contributions’
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13
IN
THE BLACK AND COMMITTING BLACKMAIL—>TV station boss and former
university chancellor Jim Rogers won't cave to mining industry after
advertising cancellation
Las
Vegas Sun / 3-2-13
We
Don't Need No Education 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
Las
Vegas taxi drivers authorize strike to begin 3 March 2013
Las Vegas Sun / 2-28-2013
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
