i'toon: Fertilizing apples with citizens as mushrooms Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-1-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune Cabellyup.com: Cabela's and Scheels starve Silver State schools Bullshots and bum watches Huge Tonopah solar array project Nevada's newest corporate welfare queen U.S. taxpayers help economic recovery for Spain Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-14-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune Predictions of calamity were not enough to derail Reno’s runaway train trench. Now what? Reno News & Review / 7-14-2011 Take my daughter, please: City hall hicks are still easy to con Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-27-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune Suing for Schools: The 20-year shuck Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-21-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune Running red in a frozen economy Sparks and Reno face huge fines for labor law violations / Updated 12-21-2009 Cancerexia: Ralph Lauren boycott widens Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-13-2009 Rory, Rory Hallelujah? Barbwire by Barbano/ Daily Sparks Tribune / 10-18-2009 More redevelopment The City of Reno and UNR have a land plan that will kill a park plan. Are the casinos lurking in the background? Dennis Myers/ Reno News & Review / 10-15-2009 Reno goes Cabellyup again Money for nothing and the kicks for free Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-13-2009 Construction workers picket Hyatt Hospitality Suites site at Reno-Tahoe Airport / Hotel will pay no property taxes — EVER / 12-30-2008 Painters Union pickets Scheels store at Sparks Marina Legends development 3-14-2008 Traveling salesman sydrome 3-9-2008 Pollyanna and Hillary at Sparks City Hall 3-2-2008 Rats, fat cats and Olympic Kool-Aid 2-17-2008 Renown/ Washoe Medical Center: The corporate welfare queen that endangers your life and those of its workers every day Cabellyup.com: Facts about the Cabela's cabal How to become a corporate welfare queen for fun and profit BARBWIRE: The price of piece Hooking business on Sparks Blvd. 6-17-2007 BARBWIRE: Tales of pigs, perversions and pipelines 5-20-2007 BARBWIRE: Let it bleed / Feb. 25, 2007 Green building tax break just another casino/developer subsidy from taxpayers, and a huge one Revenge for small 2003 gross gambling tax hike Corporate Welfare 1998-2003
	Nevada Casinos Fail to Support Education  [To  read the entire article, click on the dice.]
	State study confirms that gaming does not pay fair share. Nevada Commission on Economic Development, August 25, 1999  [To  read the entire article, click on the dice.]
	Today's casinos use the DA — not thugs — to collect debt Las Vegas Review-Journal, September 5, 1999 By John L. Smith  [To  read the entire article, click on the dice.]
	Steve Wynn's art tax loophole will become a budgetary hemorrhage. Senate Bill 521 makes a bad situation worse. The Nevada Tax Commission, following the mandates of the 1997 law and normal rulemaking practices, defined tax exempt art as that which is non-functional. This bill changes all that so that just about anything might qualify as art.  [To read the entire article, click on the dice.]
	Too much ain't enough:  Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority fights to get millions from schools Las Vegas Sun, April 12, 1999 By Benjamin Grove and Adrienne Packer  [To  read the entire article, click on the dice.]
	The power elite  It's no secret that gaming executives, developers and political consultants wield tremendous clout in Nevada. So what are you gonna do about it? Las Vegas CityLife, March 25, 1999 By Steve Sebelius  [To  read the entire article, click on the dice.] (Editors' Note — The link at the dice at left may not load. CityLife has changed its website configuration. Sorry.)
	Barbwire by Barbano (Click on the dice for the multi-year Barbwire Archive) 2003 — More corporate welfare horror stories NevadaLabor.com White Paper on Nevada's unfair and regressive tax structure 1-20-2003 Web Extra Gambling industry offers only token taxes and cosmetic participation 1-20-2003 Barbwire Web Extra Dudley Do-Right, Will Rogers and the Unholy Silence of the Cows Sparks Tribune 1-19-2003 State of the State: Next to Nothing Las Vegas CityLife 1-30-2003 Humongous property tax hike glossed over by Gov. Dudley Do-Right Sparks Tribune 1-26-2003 The need for zero-based taxing Sparks Tribune 12-13-98 Logrolling, air raids and dirty deeds done dirt cheap Sparks Tribune 2-2-2003 Legislative Opening Day Web Special Dudley Do-Right, Joe Neal, living room elephants & chopped liver 2-3-2003 Web Extra As it appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal vs. the boss of the Nevada Resort Assn. 2-7-2003 Search this site 1998-1999 Render Unto Caesar the Things Which Are Salad Originally published 5-10-98 The Mirror Has Two Faces and All Three Show Cracks Originally published 6-21-98 Nevada Banana Republic Makes the Poor Pay Originally published 11-22-98 A Life Sentence Paying Corporate Welfare Taxes Originally published 11-28-98 Life is Beautiful Despite Darth Vader and Snidely Whiplash Originally published 1-31-99 Gov. Barbano Vetoes Gov. Guinn's Tax Watchdog Award Originally published 5-2-99 Fold democracy and let casinos rule by memo Originally published 6-6-99 Suede shoe psychos & entrepreneurs with lotsa manure Originally published 8-1-99 Sen. Neal, conservatives & Gov. Dudley Do-Right agree Originally published 9-19-99 Electric screwdrivers, smoking guns and smokescreens Originally published 9-26-99
	Casino Seeks Tax Break for Art's Sake  It seems that the gamble by the Bellagio's owner, Steven Wynn, is paying off in spades, even though it costs more to enter the two-room gallery than it does just about any major art museum in the country. Still, Wynn is hedging his bets. He is lobbying the Nevada Legislature to pass a bill granting tax exemptions on the collection that would amount to a one-time sales-tax break of $18 million on the purchase of the art and $2.7 million each year in property taxes. The New York Times, April 12, 1999 By Evelyn Nieves  [To  read the entire article, click on the dice.]
	Clarifying the grease for corporate welfare pickpockets.  Two major pieces of casino corporate welfare legislation have the potential to knock the entire Reno-Sparks legislative delegation out of office next year. Some lawmakers grumble about being coerced to support Senate Bill 255 or see all their bills killed. SB 255 is an attempt to head off a lawsuit now before the Nevada Supreme Court which challenges the legality of tax increases funding the $192 million downtown Reno Union Pacific railroad trench. SB 437 would allow the track project to be designed as it is built, a method which led to 100 percent cost overruns on the Reno National Bowling Stadium.  [To  read the entire article, click on the dice.]
	Subsidizing casinos The convention authority was supposed to bring us more parks, recreation opportunities. Instead, it's just a marketing arm of the gaming industry. Las Vegas Review-Journal Sunday, April 19, 1998 By Chuck Gardner www.nevadaindex.com/  [To  read the entire article, click on the dice.] Last chance to stop local corporate welfare Barbwire by Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-7-1997 Return to NevadaLabor.com Back to Silver State COP home page Site composed & maintained by Deciding Factors Comments and suggestions appreciated. Get on our news and bulletin lists.