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BREAKING
NEWS AND THEN SOME—> Current
Statewide News Roundup Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show
Primary colors: NAACP supports statewide faith organizing campaign Open
season on law-breaking dangerous drones Happy High Holly Days TESLA
CORPORATE WELFARE REDUX
Machine
Gun Michele Fiore wants to shoot Syrian refugees
Weekend
at Bernie's with Eugene McCarthy's grandchildren Last
of the dinosaurs: Grease for corporate gears Bigoted
Reno Gazette-Journal column debunked The
Donald and The Church Lady run among us From
holy of holies to lair of the moneychangers Parsing
the paranoia of powerful penny-pinchers Good
news, bad news and Machine Gun Michele NAACP sets 70th Annual Freedom Fund Awards Dinner Oct. 24 at Circus Circus-Reno NN
Central Labor Council president rebuts Reno Gazette-Journal
GOP-jaundiced Labor Day coverage Strange
bedfellows and nubile wenches Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show Pondering
the bright side of warmongering "Why
Wait?” Citizenship Workshop in Las Vegas Sept. 19 Cheering
for cheating when jockocracy rules Making
it: Do casino jobs provide a way into the middle class? Another
lawsuit challenges religious school tax grants Parents
file second lawsuit against Republican education privatization law Labor
Day 2016: Nevada workers' last stand I
Didn't Come From Your Rib — You Came From My Vagina Workers
demonstrate at Las Vegas Trump hotel 8-21 Longtime
Nevada union leader Richard Ciesynski dies at 81 Don't
call a lawyer to sue a doctor Modest Catherine Cortez-Masto fundraiser Aug. 9 in Reno Barbano
promotes Voting Rights Act 50th Anniversary March on statewide TV Heroic
lions, pampered elephants & sweating RINOS Ironic
colonics, shameless strumpetry & repo men Longtime
union leader and former Nevada labor official John Byrne dead at 90 Stumpin'
for Trump Moving
the needle and needling the weasels Barbano
announces formation of Democrats
for Trump Education
Dysfunction Part LVIII—> All
the news you never knew you needed to know The
2015 Nevada Legislature's greatest hits Stench
of sulfur suffuses Nevada's year of the gun 2015
LEGISLATIVE END GAME (at least until special sessions start) Gomorrah
South casino mogul castrates First Amendment in Nevada Union
cabbies plan mass Las Vegas Strip stoppage/demonstration May 29 Dogs
and ponies, DARE traps and tokenism Corporate
welfare unites me with the moonhowlers Postal
Workers National Day of Action Hotplates,
hotheads, hot rumors and hot Moose ¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo! MayDay!
The bright side of riots in the streets In
the Uber-Nevada Legislature, words can kill Tesla
rewrites history to chisel worker paychecks Radiation
Nation: ¡Viva Chávez! César
Chávez Celebration XIII
/ Celebración
de César Chávez XIII Revenge,
redistricting and amnesia in Cartoon City Road
construction worker Ron Raiche Jr. of Battle Mountain, Laborers' Local
169 member, dies on I-80 East César
Chávez fought for the dignity of work Harry
Reid, Eddy Arnold, César Chávez and Gaga Madonna Barbano:
GOP strategy to cripple labor, then gerrymander Nevada control thru
at least 2022 High
noon for the high desert outback of the American Dream St.
Patrick, I need a green energy beer ¡Feliz
año nuevo! Michele
Fiore: the Italian girl
mama wanted for me?
Barbano to legislative committee: Let Tesla, Switch and Apple help pay for police officer video cameras Clinging
to the Ledge: guts, feathers and all We
don't need no stinking wages! The
flush of victory and the irony of deceit Senate
Republicans take a jackhammer to the bedrock of Nevada trade unionism
Follytix,
Foxcatchers and corporate weasels Machine
Gun Michele and cheap Ma Bell Education
Dysfunction Part LIII—>
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show 12-9-2014:
Barbano and Gammick actually agree on something. Check
hell for
snowfall.
Breaking
Bad 5: Machine Gun Michele and the good ole boys Breaking
Bad 4: Ira & his ammosexuals flip us the finger
Sen.
Heller: No hope for jobless benefits extension Breaking
Bad 3: Ira, the guv and the dragonslayers Breaking
Bad Part Deux: Ira blames the Tribune BREAKING BAD 11-23-2014—>Hansen resigns as Nevada State Assembly Speaker BARBANO
DECRIES HANSEN ON STATEWIDE TV
SMOKING GUNS: The Ira Hansen Files Voting,
gloating, loathing and scapegoating Reno
PD identifies taxi driver killed in second weekend robbery incident Coroner
identifies road construction flagger killed by 21 year-old drunk driver
on Nov. 7 Happy
150th Birthday, Ms. Nevada
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 Barbwire:
Nevada not really
a state 2014 MAKES A SIX-PACK—>BARBWIRE SCORES SIXTH NEVADA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARD If
you voted early, this will make you regret it
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-4-2014 Daily Sparks Tribune Virginia
City's next scary sexy Hollywood movie Follytix
'14: Year of the Topless Campaign Words
from God on Nevada ballots and Ebola Hazardous Duty? Four Nevada State Assemblymembers die in past year Judge
rules Las Vegas Democratic assembly candidate ineligible but sole
valid opponent can still lose Former
Culinary Union Local 226-Reno business representative Bill Russell
dies Cheap
thrills: Sex banned in Gomorrah South Former Nevada State Assembly Majority Leader Jack Jeffrey, D-Las Vegas, dies Education
Dysfunction Part L—> Culinary
rally coincides with opening of downtown Summerlin Culinary
Union demonstrates against Station Casinos during Summerlin downtown
grand opening LVRJ
Poll: Hutchison leads Flores for light-guv Education
Dysfunction Part XLIX—> LA Times 9-28-14: Nevada overstating economic benefits of Tesla factory Federal
judge refuses to stop Nevada fracking
Taxpayers taken for Teslacide demo ride St.
Elon, Lord Pedro and Gov. Veto El Obtúsè Tinkle-down
economics: testing Tesla's testes Door-to-door
salesmen and stoner stores
Teamsters reach new tentative agreement with Washoe mass transit contractor Labor
Day 2014: Red, white and screwed UPDATED 22 AUGUST 2014 01:07 a.m. PDT, 08:07 ZULU/GMT/SUT/CUT —> On this date in 1966, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, now the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), was formed from a merger of the National Farm Workers Association and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and became a powerful tool for the advancement of Latinos under the leadership of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. (Courtesy Dennis Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac © 2014) Sexy
scandals, whitewashes & black towers Education
Dysfunction Part XLV—> TEAMSTERS VOTE DOWN CONTRACT WITH RTC WASHOE TRANSIT OPERATOR Education
Dysfunction Part XLIV—> How
to assassinate Medicare and Medicaid Las
Vegas cancer center drops Obamacare patients Waste
Mismanagement Migrant
laborers: Your folks and refugee kids A
cold shower for the NY Times Tesla gusher Ask
Hobby Lobby to take in refugee kids Building
Trades Council responds to GOP misrepresentation Teamsters
contract with Washoe transit system expires June 30, extension possible The
Status Quo Ante versus the Status Quo Uncle Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers show Teamsters leader Lou Martino's memorial service Tuesday, 24 June 2014 "If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." — Travus T. Hipp, 1982 Tesla
plants PR slants to get into the public's pants Nevada
follytix '14 still played under 1952 TV rules Politics
is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which
properly concern them. Nevada's
righteous ayatollahs arise once again Workers
Resist Scofflaw Employers in Wage Theft Capital of the US Reno Grand Sierra Resort sued for 4,700 employees' back pay When
your enemy is destroying himself, never interfere Keep
chipping. Pretty soon, you've got a sculpture —> and lots
of arrowheads! MESSAGE
FROM THE MAHATMA Souls to the polls— early voting Barbara
Bennett, Erik Holland and Václav Havel Stabbing
rock-sucking kangaroos on the Ides of May Giant Culinary Union will strike downtown Las Vegas hotel-casinos on June 1
Lawsuit
alleges state conspired with employers to subvert intent of minimum
wage constitutional amendment Negative
Optimism: Nevada
State AFL-CIO conventioners join anti-education tax initiative business
coalition Mayday!
Revolution,
evolution, devolution & truth dilution Making
the best of an inbred situation College
athletes need unions, pay Marching for equal rights and equal pay on tax day The
Obamacare Bitcoin online vote exchange Strike
Chess: LV Culinary and Bartenders unions plan picketing On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn. In
search of the modern day Barbara Bennett César Chávez Celebration XII Monday 31 March 2014 Doors open at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7:00 p.m. Celebración de César Chávez XII Lunes 31 de Marzo 2014 Las puertas se abren a las 5:30 p.m., la cena a las 7:00 p.m. Circus Circus—Reno Order 3-31-14 César Chávez Celebration tickets, tables & sponsorships Banqueters
cry: Hail, César
Bob
McGowan, Miss America and César Chávez When César Chávez came to Reno
Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential César
Chávez's fight continues Join
the campaign for a César
Chávez national holiday The Underbelly of the News: Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential Hiding
in Plain Sight
—> 2014
Nevada Press Association Award Winner We
Don't Need No Education XXXVII RENO, NEV. (3-7-2014) — PAUL MCKENZIE, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Northern Nevada/AFL-CIO, filed to run for the Reno City Council 4th Ward seat currently held by term-limited Councilman Dwight Dortch. Campaign
2014: An expensive comedy act Barbano
on the Barbwire plots new TV season
We
Don't Need No Education XXXVI —> Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program Fold
your favorite charity, then go thank yourself NEW—>College
values twisted: Unionize college athletes AAAARRRRRRGH!
UNITE HERE chief D. Taylor meets with Mitch McConnell
Clark
County Commission turns down hospital union contract 4-3 We
don't care. We don't have to: Jerrit Canyon Nevada gold mine cited
for 61 safety violations We
Don't Need No Education: Time to give up?
Barbano
and Nevada State AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer Danny Thompson
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program Justice:
Just another word for nothing left to lose Where’s
the modern-day Joe Neal for governor, Democrats? All
the news you wish you didn't need to know Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program 2:00 p.m. Jan. 18 memorial set for former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital trustee Vivian Freeman
Can
Amazon drones deliver healthy cigarettes? Solar-powered
insurance drones from hell HAPPY
NEW YEAR/Little
Christmas/Kwanzaa/Feliz
Año Nuevo
Happy
New Year
/ Feliz Año
Nuevo Bestest
of the grotesquest for 2013
NEW—>In
such dire straits that it now merits its own sordid section
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Hey buddy, can you spare a dime? Barbwire wins second straight Nevada Press Association first-place award Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-20-2009
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BREAKING
NEWS Making
it: Do casino jobs provide a way into the middle class? 2015
LEGISLATIVE END GAME (at least until special sessions start) Gomorrah
South casino mogul castrates First Amendment in Nevada Union
cabbies plan mass Las Vegas Strip stoppage/demonstration May 29 Dogs
and ponies, DARE traps and tokenism Reno Grand Sierra Resort sued for 4,700 employees' back pay Mr.
Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither 2010 Casino Dealer News Archive 2007-2009 Casino Dealer News Archive 2005-2006 Casino Dealer News Archive 2004 Casino Dealer News Archive
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TESLA
CORPORATE WELFARE REDUX
Worker
dies after a construction accident at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center Laborers'
Local 169 worker Ismael Mayorga-Torres flies 40 feet, lives to tell
the tale Tesla
rewrites history to chisel worker paychecks Road
construction worker Ron Raiche Jr. of Battle Mountain, Laborers' Local
169 member, dies on I-80 East Clinging
to the Ledge: guts, feathers and all We
don't need no stinking wages! The
flush of victory and the irony of deceit Senate
Republicans take a jackhammer to the bedrock of Nevada trade unionism
Coroner
identifies road construction flagger killed by 21 year-old drunk driver
on Nov. 7 Federal
judge refuses to stop Nevada fracking Taxpayers
taken for Teslacide demo ride Tinkle-down
economics: testing Tesla's testes Taxpayers taken for Teslacide demo ride Labor
Day 2014: Red, white and screwed Building
Trades Council responds to GOP misrepresentation Workers
Resist Scofflaw Employers in Wage Theft Capital of the US Tesla
plants PR slants to get into the public's pants RENO, NEV. (3-7-2014) — PAUL MCKENZIE, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Northern Nevada/AFL-CIO, filed to run for the Reno City Council 4th Ward seat currently held by term-limited Councilman Dwight Dortch. Sparks
Community Profile: Sheet Metal Workers Local 26 Business Manager Matt
Doehring They
don't do anything until somebody dies The
bloody guns of October fire on November Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable. Déjà
vu all over again and again and... Will
Gomorrah South learn? Clandestine
construction cash: Laborers' Union handbillers take community's case
to UNR students University
just won't learn—> Just
like old times: UN,R and Hot August Nights Laborers'
Union demonstrates at UNR 9/20/13 Applecart
Tipping? Nevada
unemployed unable to file claims; benefits cut LABOR
DAY 2013: State of the Unions —> Workers
& taxpayers protest Apple's lack of transparency Gov. Veto El Obtúse rides again: AB 218 scuttled AB 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 Public
shut out of utility legislation, putting ratepayers at risk
National
Workers Memorial
Day of the Dead Sitting
ducks in Sparks as storks stalk Carson César
Chávez's fight continues Big
money is involved in battle over building defects Barbano
vs. vindictive lawmakers: Cutting prevailing wages won't stimulate economy We
Don't Need No Education Part XVI —>
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Anaconjob
continues Federal
judge refuses to stop Nevada fracking Tinkle-down
economics: testing Tesla's testes Taxpayers taken for Teslacide demo ride MSHA
releases fatalgram on Klondex Midas Mine death We
don't care. We don't have to: Jerrit Canyon Nevada gold mine cited
for 61 safety violations Freeman's
distinguished career included Nevada's first mining reclamation
law Death
on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable. Comstock
residents picket mining company's shareholder meeting Nevada’s
privileged mining industry battles the future with ‘campaign contributions’
Nevada
to mining: Never mind (the tax thing)
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Barbwire wins second straight Nevada Press Association first-place award Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-20-2009
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artificial turf, don't breathe unless necessary Sacramento
mayor and Rheeactionary wife get right-wing millions to fund private
schools at taxpayer expense Cheering
for cheating when jockocracy rules Making
it: Do casino jobs provide a way into the middle class? Another
lawsuit challenges religious school tax grants Parents
file second lawsuit against Republican education privatization law We
don't need no education, biblical or not 2015
LEGISLATIVE END GAME (at least until special sessions start) Union
cabbies plan mass Las Vegas Strip stoppage/demonstration May 29 Dogs
and ponies, DARE traps and tokenism Postal
Workers National Day of Action César
Chávez fought for the dignity of work Harry
Reid, Eddy Arnold, César Chávez and Gaga Madonna Barbano:
GOP strategy to cripple labor, then gerrymander Nevada control thru
at least 2022 Barbano to legislative committee: Let Tesla, Switch and Apple help pay for police officer video cameras Teamsters
win election but lose turf war against Clark County school support
workers union Reno
PD identifies taxi driver killed in second weekend robbery incident Masked
and bulletproofed, Taxicab Authority troopers pull SWAT duty in busting
UBER taxi drivers in Las Vegas Strip sting at Caesar's Palace Uber,
taxicab version of Craigslist, may soon drive Las Vegas Nevada strip clubs take two high court hits By Sean Whaley / Las Vegas Review-Journal 11-8-2014 MUSICIANS
OF THE RENO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA RATIFY NEW 4-YEAR AGREEMENT WITH
RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION Wal-Mart
cuts health benefits for some part-timers –>9/23
Teamsters OK new contract with Reno-Sparks-Washoe
transit system Education
Dysfunction Part XLVIII—> Tinkle-down
economics: testing Tesla's testes Teamsters reach new tentative agreement with Washoe mass transit contractor Door-to-door
salesmen and stoner stores
Labor
Day 2014: Red, white and screwed TEAMSTERS VOTE DOWN CONTRACT WITH RTC WASHOE TRANSIT OPERATOR Education
Dysfunction Part XLIV—> Las
Vegas cancer center drops Obamacare patients Waste
Mismanagement Building
Trades Council responds to GOP misrepresentation Teamsters
contract with Washoe transit system expires June 30, extension possible 2014
Nevada Press Association Award Winner RIPOFF
CITY: Las Vegas needs to solve cab driver long-hauling of short-route
customers We
Don't Need No Education XXXVII Remembering
another local school murder Death
on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable The
bloody guns of October fire on November Prayer vigil for Sparks Middle School shooting victims Reno
City Council rolls over for Waste Management—>again Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program Triangle
Shirtwaist inferno redux a century later 3-25-1911: New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146, including 132 girls FRESHLY UPDATED —> TWO RENO WAL-MART BLACK FRIDAY DEMONSTRATIONS NOV. 23 Nevadalabor.com Wal-Mart Nevada War Room John
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