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Happy
High Holly Days!
MerryChristmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus
On
the first day of Christmas, follytix gave to me: Newt
Gingrich dressed in Sharron Angle drag.
On the second day of Kwanzaa, Newt Gingrich gave
to me: Slave laboring poor kids cleaning schools.
On the third day of Festivus, Mike Huckabee gave Rick Perry: Time to
abort his campaign.
On the last day of Chanukah, Ron Paul gave to
me: A tattered set of used white sheets.
On the fifth day of Christmas, Iowa gave to us:
blunderbusses blundering via bus.
On the sixth day of Christmas, although it may
seem strange, I'm beginning to miss Herman Cain.
On the seventh day of Christmas,
let's rise above the sleaze: Break out good champagne and blackeye peas.
On the eighth day of Christmas,
I drifted into dream, some fantasy about love and peace.
On the ninth day of Christmas, Iowa
gave the Dems: defrocked Sen. Scrotum Factotem —> ahem (snicker)
amen.
On the tenth day of Christmas, Iowa gave the GOP:
a hangover for Don't
Tread on Me
On the eleventh day of Christmas:
Comedians now lament, Michelle Bachmann's campaign done came and went.
On the 12th day of Christmas, a dream so near/so far —
That Obama can morph into FDR.
BREAKING
NEWS AND THEN SOME —>
The
great ones died but Newt's like Dracula
Happy
High Holly
Days anyway!
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from the 12-25-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Pipeline
pigs, oily vultures & flying swine
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LOBBY
YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER TO CONTINUE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. The
fastest way to get money into the economy is to help the unemployed
who will spend the small allowance immediately.
The
guns of December pointed at you
Barbano
by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-11-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Life
imitates art imitates Chuck
Chuck
Fisher, 1944-2011
Nevada may decide 2012 presidency / New community
fm radio station
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Sparks Tribune
DON'T
LET 'EM LICK YOUR STAMPS! Postal workers picket to save Reno area
jobs. Public meeting at 6:00 p.m. PST Dec. 1 at Wooster High School
in Reno
Sign
the petition to the U.S. Senate
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UP AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING (9-27-2011) — More than
200 postal workers and members of other unions demonstrate at the
Bruce Thompson Federal Building in Reno in favor of passage of HR
1351, which would remove the funding drain now threatening the United
States Postal Service. The federal courthouse may be seen in the
window reflections of the auto in the foreground.
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The
Christmas conundrum, harrumph-a-pump-pump
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by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-27-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Tell
the Super Committee NO cuts to Social Programs
Demonstration 5:30 p.m. PST Monday 11-21-2011 in downtown Reno
Nevada's
11 most powerful in 2011
Send
in your personal picks to click
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TAKING
IT TO THE STREETS AND AIRWAVES
News that affects your life
If
you can't win, be spectacular
BARBWIRE
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UPDATE:
Confirmed, controversial and perhaps
corrupt
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11-16-2011
Trumpeter,
band leader, union man Al Shay dies at 90
Irony
cards, cat houses and catty censorship
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by Barbano / Expanded
from the 11-13-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Heroes
are made, not born
Barbwire
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from the 11-6-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Ostrich
heads in the sands of Sparks Marina
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from the 10-30-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
St.
Crispin's Day —
History's greatest motivational speech
Corporate
welfare watch
Local sporting goods stores
drop like flies while corporate welfare queens Cabela's and Scheels
score tax dollars based on a bright, shining lie. Heavily subsidized
Reno Aces billionaire boss says he's open to higher taxes but refuses
to pay in Nevada.
ALSO:
KOCH CAIN — Koch Bros. would rather invest in follyticians like
Pizzaman
The
dog ate my press release
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from the 10-23-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Loss
of Faith
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from the 10-16-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
"Casino Women" book hits nationwide
Dirty
words and sexy talk always get it on
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded
from the 10-9-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
When
money owns you
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded
from the 10-2-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Retired
Culinary Union leader Jim Arnold, Jr., dies
All of Nevada labor mourns
So
what else is new?
Republican Amodei smokes titular Democrat for 30-year GOP Nevada
House seat. Portents below.
"There
was no reason for the base to come out (for Kate Marshall).
I was very disappointed in her campaign."
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—
Marlene Lockard, former
chief of staff to former Gov. Richard Bryan (D)
Nevada
Newsmakers
/ 9-14-2011
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Piss
up a rope: Vote
NY,
NV special House elections all about bragging rights
Laborers' Union files legal actions over illegal
bids
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POWERFUL
PUNDITORY PANJANDRUMS: Compelling guest commentary
State
Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, brings his congressional campaign north
Princess
Cassandra's neverending labor
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-4-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
If
you can't win, be spectacular
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-28-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune / Updated
8-31-2011
Miners
don't even kiss us afterward
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife / 8-25-2011
Suicide
via Laborcide in Carolina
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-21-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Bullshots
and bum watches
Will
Nevada unions picket their own convention?
Culinary
226 cuts new deal in the face of Grand Sierra Reno's wholesale outsourcing
Huge
Tonopah solar array project is Nevada's newest corporate welfare queen
Residents
opposing Comstock pit mine schedule events
Seniors group endorses Democrat Kate Marshall in 9-13-2011 Nevada special
election
Verizon
national strike comes to Nevada
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Bullfighting
in Tonopah, Part Deux
Survival
bulletins from the High Desert Outback of the American Dream
Wherein the D.A. comes apart like a cheap watch
Barbwire by Barbano special web edition 8-11-2011
Substantially
updated and expanded from the 8-7-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Bullfighting
in Tonopah
All the news
you never knew you needed to know 'til now
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BREAKING
NEWS
You
can't have your war and eat it, too
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Final
pieces found at last!
Eminent
conservative economist Pierre A. Rinfret's seminal 1966 commentary on
how war spending destroys the economies of nations:
Peace is Bullish
Vietnam's
Economic Lesson: Peace can yield fatter profits than war / Look Magazine
5-31-1966
Plus: The actual facts behind the fabled JFK tax cuts
Dennis
Myers: Democrats folded without firing a shot at the 2011 Legislative
session
Hall
of famers give the boss the finger
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SYLVESTER
KELLEY, GUTSY RETIREE & WW2 VET WHO BATTLED NV ENERGY OVER MEDICAL
BENEFITS, DIES AT 87
Memorial
service on Monday, June 20
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1923-2011
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Mary
Valencia Wilson: Nevada's Aztec Warrior
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1944-2011
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Nevada
government's license to kill
A
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Déjà
vu, dustbusters and living legacies
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Clinging
to the Ledge: Cold War
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5-22-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Updated
5-25-2011: TV SHOW REGIONAL RERUN SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
Carson
City 12 noon Thursday, May 19
Workers rally
for good jobs at good wages
Proposed reforms will devastate Nevada's already eroded wage base
Nevada's
future held hostage
"So
here you are, brothers and sisters. You are the hostages of
Nevada’s governor and his political party. You are the
hostages of the Chamber of Commerce. And they are holding you
and your future hostage, not to fix the problems of this state,
but rather only after you have been sacrificed will they be
willing to discuss – I repeat, not agree to — but
discuss a way to fix Nevada’s financial woes." —
From Paul McKenzie's speech to the more than 300 workers
at the May 19 rally. Read
the full text.
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TV
this week:
Freedom Riders and wage defenders
Since
they're blaming the victims, it's high time for the victims to fight
back.
Live
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Updated
5-16-2011, 5-17-2011
LV
IATSE LOCAL 720 LEADER MEL TURNER DIES
Teamsters
blast Fallon layoffs targeting union workers
May
Day!
T-Rump reduces president
to peanuts
Wobblies lead May Day human rights solidarity
March through Reno
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The
perils of playing the other guy's game
Obama
botches gasoline price issue in Reno speech
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-24-2011
Daily Sparks Tribune
You
can't run from the awful truth
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No
more Mr. Nice Guy
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/ Updated 4-13-2011
MLK
43 National Unity Rally
Workers
and students rally Monday April 4 at Western Nevada College in Carson
City and College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas
43rd anniversary of the assassination of Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
César
Chávez and Dr. King still lead us
Barbwire by Barbano / Reno Gazette-Journal Guest Editorial
/ 3-31-2011
A
walk with the giants
The César
Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame Awards
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César
Chávez
Day in Nevada
EL
DÍA DE CÉSAR CHÁVEZ
¡Sí
se puede!
Be well. Raise hell.
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The
César
Chávez Long March
by Reno artist Erik Holland
Mr. Holland
will be selling cards and prints at the March
31 César Chávez celebration at Circus Circus
in Reno. The original watercolor is currently displayed at the
Nevada Legislature in the office of Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas.
Copyright
© 2009 Erik Holland. All rights reserved.
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UNR
students
honor César Chávez
César
Chávez, Dr. King and the kids are alright
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Obama
pays tribute to late Reno labor leader
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THE
WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered
photo from July 15, 1986. Left to right are Kathy Brown,
Culinary Union Local 86 office manager; Miguel Contreras,
Local 86 Secretary-Treasurer; Local 86 President Bill Uehlein;
a lady named Natalie (anyone who knows her last name,
please write),
and César Chávez. This item was first
published in Ahora, northern Nevada's Spanish-English
weekly, on March 26, 2008. (On 3-19-2009, President Obama
paid tribute to Brother Contreras as he spoke in the L.A.
building named after the late labor leader. See the 1986 Chávez
Reno archive, below.)
(Photo
courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers'
Union Local 169.)
More stories and photos
from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit
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3-25-1911:
New York Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory fire kills 146, including 132 girls
The
Reagan Ranch, hall of famers and protest fatigue
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3-20-2011 /
Updated 3-21, 3-22-2011
Required
Reading: Myers
on 8 freakin' years of war
It
ain't broke, but we'll fix it
Former
Laborers' Local 169 Secretary-Treasurer Don Carruthers dies
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-13-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Charlie
Sheen and the Price of Gasoline
ENERGY,
PART DEUX: PUC sides with electrical workers, orders NV Energy staffing
investigation
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-6-2011
Daily Sparks Tribune
Hearing by Nevada Senate
Select Committee on Economic Growth and Employment
Skills Assessment Program for Unemployed Workers
Community College of Southern Nevada, Cheyenne Campus, Las Vegas
Friday,
March 4, 2011 1:00 p.m. PST
Legislative
Field Hearing on Budget 5:00-7:00
p.m. PST Feb. 28
Green Valley High School, 460 Arroyo Grande Blvd, Henderson, NV
89014
FROM
THE WOBBLIES: Rally
for UNR public education
March 2, 5:00 p.m. PST/ University
of Nevada-Reno
Cowboys
and Indians
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Too
old to work, too young to die
High
noon on President's Day: Nevadans
rally statewide to support Wisconsin workers
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-20-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATE: Great Minds Think Alike Dept. The stakes
could not be higher.
A
Valentine for Tura Satana —>Union
Star
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Tura
Satana Jurman, noted 1960's motion picture actress and Nevada union
stalwart, dies in Reno at 72
40
Years on the High Desert Plantation
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Barack
Brian Obama Sandoval Carter
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-30-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
SOS
Means Chicken Follytix
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Toljaso
— Raggio's boy gets the boss' job
Unions
field strong representation at MLK events
