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Hope you and yours enjoy Happy High Holly Days
Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/
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Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz Año Nuevo
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Frohe Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2024
Vaxx up, stay safe, pray for Ukraine and almost 100 other currently war-torn lands.

11-30-2023
St. Andrew's Day in Scotland & BarbwireLand
Be well. Raise hell. Stay safe. Ciao

Who will answer?
Part 2
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-22-2023

Last Chance Joe meets Sherlock Holmes
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-15-2023

My brother died for his country. Twice.
Larry Barbano, 1947-2023
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Special Veterans Day Edition 11-11-2023

Upsy daisy Nevada crazy
New renters' rights organization tries again
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-8-2023

A Brief History of the End of the World
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-1-2023

Letter to the Lord of War
For my bro Larry Barbano, 1947-2023
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-25-2023

Wasting workers where everybody knows your name
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-18-2023

The most dangerous animal in the world
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-11-2023

Unforgettable, Unforgivable & Unnecessary
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-4-2023

The Last Picture Show: Serenata for Renate
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-4-2023

Washoe will decide the presidency in 2024
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-27-2023

Elon Musk, President of the United States
Plus 2 Barbwire National News Exclusives
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-20-2023

Death by a thousand cuts
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-13-2023

A tale of two cupcakes
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-6-2023

You bet your life
Broken promises, broken bodies, broken bets & broken democracies
Make your Labor Day weekend count for workers

Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-30-2023

Life as a color cartoon
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-23-2023

Renate Neumann: Once upon a time
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-16-2023

Tin boxes and tin men
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-9-2023

The apogee of the apocalypse
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-2-2023

The Hounds of the Tubervilles
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-26-2023

Miss Priscilla Goodbody channels Princess Cassandra
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-19-2023

                            

Love letters from Miss Priscilla Goodbody
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-12-2023

True Confession: I drink Bud Light
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-5-2023

If you strike a king
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-28-2023

Invasion of the Chicken Pluckers
Gov. Ron DeSatanist soils the Silver State at GOP testiclefest
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-21-2023 / Expansions in blue

Politicians with nothing to hide
The Barbwire Nakedly & Unabashedly Announces Its New Fleshing Out Follytix Forum—>
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-14-2023

Freebies for the rich and famous
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-7-2023

Tina Turner's Basketburger
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-31-2023

GOATs, cults and corporations
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-24-2023

Cutting your woke to spite your face
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-17-2023

Humpty Dumpty & the blackguard dwarves
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-10-2023

Gov. Lumbago's Slush Fund
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-3-2023

The awful truth and then some
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-26-2023

The Veep and the Bus Boy
Vice-President Kamala comes to Reno & the Bus Boy gets the blues
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-19-2023

An earful of cider
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-12-2023

What's in it for me?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-5-2023

Who will answer?
Part 1
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-29-2023

Recurring revolutions and tent control
César Chávez Yerington event 3-30-2023
Hearing March 29: Bill to help injured first responders
Nevada Womens' March 3-25-2023
Once and future rent control
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-22-2023


BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

TURF WAR
Sparks City Hall wants to kill your kids
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-15-2023

Selling sex in morally righteous Mississippi West
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-8-2023

APOCALYPSE THEN—>
It can't happen here. We're too smart, right?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-1-2023

Abandon hope all ye who enter here
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-22-2023

Moonhowlers: Fix Social Security. Please die.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-15-2023

Fatherly advice from the Holy See of Me
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-8-2023

Snake oil, snake worship and quack news
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-1-2023

Gov. Giuseppe Lumbago: Pie in the Sky
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-25-2023

RIP GOP: Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-18-2023

RIP GOP: 2000 Prediction Coming True
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-11-2023 / Updated 1-12-2023

Who's the boss?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-4-2023 / Updated 1-12-2023 / Expansions in blue

Of mice and guns
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-28-2022

Giants great and small
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-21-2022

Law & Order Special Victims:
Nevada's Disposable Cops

Plus memories of Mills Lane
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
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Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-14-2022

Jean Stoess dies at 85
The former Washoe County Commissioner passed away on Dec. 3 according to the December 13 Reno Gazette-Journal. The Barbwire will remember a great public servant in next week's edition.

Geekonomics for fun & prophet
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-7-2022

The Circle Game
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-30-2022

Déjà vu all over again. And again.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-23-2022

The Barbwire Blue-footed Booby Prizes
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-16-2022

Help wanted: athletes wounded on toxic turf