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Unless otherwise noted, columns originate in the Daily
Sparks, Nev., Tribune
and
are edited and reprinted in the following Friday's Comstock Chronicle
The
price of sacrificial lambchops
12-26-2004
Sex,
drugs and fantasyland
12-19-2004
Stupid
symbols for stupid people
12-12-2004
Stringing
up cable and controllers
12-5-2004
Between
Baghdad and Cyberia
11-28-2004
The
Disenfranchised and the Pirate Franchise
11-21-2004
Mirror,
Mirror on the Wall
11-14-2004
Republican
officials continue campaign against voting
Special Internet Edition
11-8-2004
A revised version of the above was published in the 11-12-2004 Comstock Chronicle
We
are the Klingons
11-5 Comstock Chronicle, 11-7-2004 Sparks Tribune
Let
'em sell underinsured doctor policies
Special Internet Election Day Edition
11-2-2004
Sick
politics make us sicker
10-31-2004
Unwinding
mind-bending ballot questions
10-24-2004
Charlatans,
welfare queens and heroes
10-17-2004
Reno
needs a backup plan for cable
Reno
Gazette-Journal 10-13-2004
Welfare queens politick with your money
10-10-2004
True
Prophet and False Profit: Michael Moore and Steve Wynn come to Reno
Will
the president debate Michael Moore on Oct. 13?
10-3-2004
Trapped
like a Harley girlie man
9-26-2004
Franz
Kafka defeats Frank Capra
9-19-2004
The
Silence of the Cows
9-12-2004
LABOR
DAY 2004 The undecided solution to all our problems
9-5-2004
Two
very different but very street-smart candidates
8-29-2004
Campaign
2004: Star Trek Politics
8-22-2004
Father
Diamond is spinning in his grave
8-15-2004
Registering
Discontent: Apathy is never having to say you're
sorry
8-8-2004
A version of the 8-8 column also appeared in the 8-26-04 edition of
Las Vegas CityLife
Fool
me twice, shame on me
8-1-2004
Latest
cable TV con jobs
7-25-2004
Somebody's not getting out alive
7-18-2004
Rigged
Games and Fallen Giants
7-11-2004
State
of the Union on the 4th of July
7-4-2004
Virginity
and political plastic surgery
6-27-2004
Dubya
does Fathers' Day for battered spouses
6-20-2004
Nevada workers helped by trans-sexual Ohio
firefighter
6-13-2004
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BLASTS FROM THE PAST Guest
Columns Did
Naval Air Station Fallon Bury Live Animals
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Message
from Washington — George Washington
Memorial
Day 2004, Peace is Bullish, Yellow Ribbon Rants Extra Page
5-30-2004
The
solution to all our problems
Kerry,
Nader, the phone strike and cable TV
5-23-2004
Strikes
work
5-16-2004
Special
Reno-Sparks-Tahoe strike edition
5-14-2004
Love's
Labors Lost — The Roots of Rage
5-9-2004
Lollafallujah
Tour 2004
5-2-2004
Dancing
with the devil in the pale moonlight
How Bob Woodward's new book will re-elect
Bush
4-25-2004
Remembering
Our Better Angels
4-18-2004
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Making refritos of the cable bandidos NEWLY
REDESIGNED AND UPDATED Mayor
Bob Cashell does Eddy Arnold City
should reject cable deal BARBWIRE:
Cable TV showdown April 7 at Reno City Hall BARBWIRE:
Getting beat up at city hall BARBWIRE:
Hung up and strung out on cable TV
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Picking up the pieces
For
the umptyleventh time, how BigOil fixes gasoline prices
Charter Cable franchise update [] Cesar Chavez
Celebration [] UPS Strike avoided
3-14-2004
Gov.
Mike O'Callaghan — the best we ever had
Complete statewide links to remembrances of Mike
3-7-2004
Rosalie
Beasley — an old friend forever young
Nevada
loses patron saint of power bills
2-29-2004
Charter
Cable's checking account isn't choosy
Web
Extra — My letter to Ralph Nader
2-22-2004
Professional
voters and picket lines
2-15-2004
Sean
Connery for President
(or
was that Sean Edwards?)
2-8-2004
Squandering
Other People's Money —Yours
Voracious
advice from Danny DeVito
2-1-2004
Sigmund
Fraud and skulduggerous speechifying
1-25-2004
The
Wal-Mart Solution
1-18-2004
1-22-2004 Las Vegas CityLife
Presidential
game over in the second quarter
1-11-2004
Nevada
2004 — Modern Banana Republic
1-4-2004
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investigative series PUMPING PROFITS —
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Andrew Barbano is a Reno-based member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413, the union of Mark Twain.
A 34-year Nevadan, he is a writer, media maven and editor/producer of websites and radio and television programs.
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