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Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth


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Suing for Schools: Feb. 21 2010 Barbwire live TV special

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Unless otherwise noted, columns originate in the Daily Sparks, Nev., Tribune.

The Lady in the Red Dress
The award-winning Barbwire classic Nevada Day column written in 1983
The compleat history of the Silver State in 500 words
SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE 1-3-2011

Sunday 12-26, the last Barbwire of 2010:
Liberal reasons to oppose liberal positions and policies
Guaranteed to irritate all points of the political spectrum

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

HAT TRICK 2010:
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

Barbwire TV


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The Barbwire TV show will be in re-runs until new studio construction is completed. For updates, keep an eye on the Barbwire print edition in this archive.

Past 12 months
Use the search tool you will find at page right at the above link. It will return the 19 newest. A button for older shows is being installed. You may also search by date — M-F for the past year save holidays.

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Barbwire.TV:
15-year overnight success

Daily Sparks Tribune 2-10-2008

The Barbwire's Greatest Hits
Highlights from radio days
mp3 file

 

Forced to play against a stacked deck
12-19-2010

Smoking guns and suing for schools
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from the 12-5-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

All I want for Christmas is a wet, warm GOP
Expanded from the 11-28-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Larry Evans:
The most interesting man in the world

ALSO: Newspapers and old newspapermen never die
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-21-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Ledge '11:
Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Expanded from the 11-14-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Postmortems, creepy factotems & revolting developments
Expanded from the 11-7-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Fladager & Reid: Legends of the Fall
Senior sparkplug Patricia Fladager dies at 89
Expanded from the 10-31-201
0 Daily Sparks Tribune

Political brass & unbreakable crystal balls
GOP sweep could spawn new Labor Party
NEW Barbwire TV show on hope for jobs premieres this week
Expanded from the 10-24-201
0 Daily Sparks Tribune

Red warnings
Downticket Dems starting to worry
Expanded from the 10-17-201
0 Daily Sparks Tribune

Déjà vu all over again, again and again
Reid v. Angle: Shades of 1952 and 1972
Expanded from the 10-10-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Velma Bishop, 1928-2010: Mom is gone
Advice from beyond for Sen. Harry Reid / Labor leader Frank Byrne, Sr., dies
Previews of coming attractions at this website and Barbwire.TV
Substantially expanded from the 10-3-201
0 Daily Sparks Tribune

Gail Bishop: We harvest the fruit of his labor
From the 2-20-1994 Daily Sparks Tribune (.pdf format)

Calvin Coolidge & prairie dog stew
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-26-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Rory, Rory, quite contrary
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-19-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune
HAT TRICK: Barbwire wins third straight Nevada Press Association first-place award. Read the winning entries by clicking above or Hat Trick @ right ->
Updated 9-22-1010

Chickens, Chicky Baby and My Sharrona
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-12-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune
Updated 9-13-2010

Labor Day 2010: The Last Hurrah?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-5-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-29-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

 

Sharron Angle: Blast from the distant past
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-22-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Milquetoast, mice and macho men
8-15-2010

Crapshoots, trapshoots and turkey shoots
Carrows restaurants run workers into the ground / Washoe DA race starts to rock
8-8-201
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My crooks are better than your crooks
8-1-2010

Sell us this day our daily bread
7-25-2010

The simple song of greatness
Longtime Nevada labor leader Danny Coyle dies
Carson City Democratic activist and teacher Pat Potter terminally ill

Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from the 7-18-201
0 Daily Sparks Tribune

The twisted ethics of sports, politics & rock 'n' roll
7-11-2010

Interdependence Day 2010:
Red, white and screwed

Expanded from the 7-4-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Take my daughter, please:
City hall hicks are still easy to con

Expanded from the 6-27-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Translating the politically inscrutable
Expanded from the 6-20-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Sexy follytix 2010: Reality vs. Superficiality
Expanded from the 6-13-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Drill baby drill for jobs - maybe - jobs
Expanded from the 6-6-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Trying to brighten the unenlightened
A little hate mail on Memorial Day weekend
Expanded from the 5-30-201
0 Daily Sparks Tribune

Al Gunderson:
Hang 'em high and watch 'em swing

Expanded from the 5-23-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Al Gunderson:
Thunder of the court silenced

Expanded from the 5-16-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Newspaper commits dogmatic suicide
Las Vegas Review-Journal assassinates the First Amendment
Expanded from the 5-9-201
0 Daily Sparks Tribune

Going dumb by thinking young
Who burned Bill Moyers and David Brancaccio?
Expanded from the 5-2-201
0 Daily Sparks Tribune

Gov. Raggio:
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

4-25-2010

The corporate con job continues
4-18-2010

Bette Drakulich: Beautiful mother to us all
4-11-2010

Payback time: Lie to your government
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-4-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Today we march with Chávez
Barbwire guest editorial / Reno Gazette-Journal 3-31-201
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César Chávez Day:
Organizing Nevada on March 31

Union employer and project of the year awards announced
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-28-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

César Chávez, Thurgood Marshall and Thomas Jefferson
Submit your nominations for the
César Chávez Silver State Public Service Awards
Enter your video (for cash and/or prizes) in public service announcement competition

Expanded from the 3-21-2010
Daily Sparks Tribune

César Chávez Day 2010:
Produce your own revolution
Expanded from the 3-14-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

The New Tiger Woods-Nike-Budweiser UNR
Expanded from the 3-7-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Ledge 'X:
The Deer-in-the-Headlights Session

Expanded from the 2-28-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Suing for Schools: The 20-year shuck
Expanded from the 2-21-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Click here to view the show on your desktop

Mr. Vegetable Lives Forever
Feb. 21 Barbwire live TV special announced
Expanded
from the 2-14-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Déjà Vu Part Deux:
Tap City Again and Again

Expanded from the 2-7-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

The hits just keep on coming
Expanded from the 1-31-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Bill Raggio, Governor of Nevada 2011
Expanded from the 1-24-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

The crabby cure for what ails us
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-17-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

RED flags flying low over Sparks
Expanded from the 1-10-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Expanded from the 1-3-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Guest Columnists
Jake Highton
Travus T. Hip
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Dennis Myers
Orland T. Outland
Labor Leaders
The Farside Chronicles

12-year investigative series

PUMPING PROFITS — Why does gasoline cost so much?
Read the awful truth in the Barbwire Oilogopoly Archive

BLASTS FROM THE PAST
Some of the Barbwire's Greatest Hits

1995 Washoe Med Grand Jury Report
Additional columns just uploaded from our archives
Grand Jury report available for the first time on the web
Just in time for the latest nurses' union vote — and victory

The fairy tale power of 35 pennies
From the 12-22-1991
Daily Sparks Tribune / .pdf format
Presented to my granddaughter as a university graduation present on 5-27-2011
and referenced in the 5-29-2011 Barbwire

Gail Bishop: We harvest the fruit of his labor
From the 2-20-1994 Daily Sparks Tribune (.pdf format)
Velma Bishop, 1928-2010
From the 10-3-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Doug Davies: Rum & Ragtime Renaissance Man
Daily Sparks Tribune 11-14-1993 (
.pdf format)

Diss me, father, for I have sinned
Daily Sparks Tribune 7-16-1995 / Reprinted 7-15-2007

Merle Brennan: The Last American Sportsman, 1-7-1996
Updated with vintage photos, restored race cars and a visit from Il Comendatore himself
UPDATED 10-4-2008

Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004
A memoir from Nevada's undercover Reagan-Bush PR man

Slightly updated 6-6-2004 from the 8-2-1992 Daily Sparks Tribune original

History
Labor Day '94: People vs. Corporate Con-Job
A brief history of neo-con PR and the roots of corporate propaganda

Tragedy
Come, follow me: A walk with the grateful dead
A visit to Nevada's first AIDS leper colony
From the 8-19-1988 and 7-10-1994 Daily Sparks Tribune

Did Naval Air Station Fallon bury live animals after a huge fuel spill?
From the 1-19-1990 AND 1-22-1990 Daily Sparks Tribune

Comedy
Theme casinos, Spuds MacKenzie & Brigitte Bardot
The first Barbwire

Originally published in Reno, LV and Sunworld Airlines magazines, August, 1987

Continuing Tragicomedy
Judge Clarence Thomas meets Prof. Kingsfield
Reprinted in the San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Legal Journals, 1991

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em
The reasons behind the failure of Nevada's first non-smoking casino
Barbwire 3-2-1990


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

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

Con jobs by charlatans in the name of our children
Originally published 5/4/97
Slavery, sweatshops and shell game education
Originally published 4/27/97
New evidence in the university financial shell game
Originally published 4/20/97
All university regents face ouster, TMCC chief quits
Originally published 3/9/97
The question no one asked Howard Rosenberg — till now
Originally published 3/2/97
The buckaroo kangaroo court hangs Rosenberg Thursday
Originally published 2/23/97
Only embrace the tar baby when DNA proves it's yours
Originally published 2/2/97
Emperors, educators, pregnant paupers & presidents
Originally published 1/26/97
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Secret university audit catches chancellor lying!*
Originally published 1/19/97
A watered down education for Mother Nevada's kids
Originally published 1/12/97
Both Nevada and its university open 1997 lost at sea
Originally published 1/5/97

The 1996 Grateful Deadhead and Chia Butthead Awards
Originally published 12/29/96
*Shadowboxing Jello, yahoo kangaroos & Downsize This!*
Originally published 12/22/96
*EXTRA! Barbano endorses environmental jockocracy *
Originally published 12/15/96
*University Scandals 1996: The Empire Strikes Back *
Originally published 12/8/96
*Howard Rosenberg: the most powerful man in Nevada *
Originally published 12/1/96
*Howard Rosenberg: unlikely David vs. Philistine Elite *
Originally published 11/24/96
*Clark Santini: still watching over his university*
Originally published 11/17/96
*Protected pianists at the Casablanca College Casino*
Originally published 11/10/96
*Ghost Professors, Gold Mines and Shell Games at UNR*
Originally published 11/3/96
*Slam-dunks: fun follytix up at the U*
Originally published 10/27/96

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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