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Breaking News & then some—>

State houses, courthouses & cat houses
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-31-2024
UPDATED 8-1-2024 GMT

Dirt cheap and cheap shots
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-24-2024

We've seen this movie many times
Commissar Donaldov is a closet sado-masochist:
"Hurt me, JD; tell me you love me, then bend over."
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-17-2024

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. "What profiteth it a man if he would gain the whole world but lose his own soul?" — GOD "So, we have a deal, right?" — Donald Trump Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx Still crazy after all these years. The naked truth about war "Thou shalt not kill." — God

Dream Team: Tom Hanks & Oprah Winfrey
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-10-2024

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Business as usual—>HOT AUGUST STRIKE!
Video/Strike 4?: Bus drivers prepare for another strike against Keolis
By Michelle Baker / ThisIsReno.com 7-12-2014
UPDATE 7-15-2024: A tentative agreement has been reached, probably avoiding a strike.
Member ratification vote next week. No concessions, apparently a good deal.
Teamsters Union Local 533 Keolis 2021 Hat Trick Strike Archives

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SERIOUS SUMMER HEAT Updated—>

Clara Andriola drinks the moonhowler Kool-Ade: In unprecedented move, Washoe commission votes against certifying recount results. "Uncharted water"

Editorial: County Commissioner Clara Andriola’s flip-flops
By Kristen Hackbarth and Bob Conrad / ThisIsReno.com 7-14-2024
Warning: Harsh language hereinabove!

Update—> After court filings by Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar and Attorney General Aaron Ford, Andriola and the commission reconsidered on Tuesday, July 16. Republicans Andriola and Clark finally sided with the law and exercised their ministerial duty to certify the election. Only consistent outlyer Commissioner Jeanne Herman continued to vote against. November remains a serious question mark in the post-rule of law era.

ThisIsReno.com report
Reno Gazette-Journal report
KRNV TV-4 / KRXI Fox-11 report

Stay tuned.

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Marsy in LawLawLand

FROM Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-17-2024

SPEAKING OF JUDGES. With the only Democrat and one other non-partisan dropping out, only non-partisan senior housing activist Marsela "Marsy" Kupfersmith (pronounced "cooper-smith") remains to oppose appointed Washoe County Commissioner Clara Andriola this November. She represents most of Sparks from downtown to the eastern county line and northward past Spanish Springs to Pebble Creek.

On July 3, Kupfersmith challenged the disqualification of her nominating petition in court where it awaits a decision by Washoe District Judge Kathleen Drakulich. Her honor may punt the issue to Nevada Secretary of State and chief elections officer Francisco Aguilar. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Indeed, earlier this week, the judge bounced it to the SOS and/or Carson City District Court. Stay tuned.

Secretary of State reviewing candidate signatures after registrar of voters refused to explain why they were deficient
By Dr. Bob Conrad / ThisIsReno.com 7-4-2024

BREAKING NEWS—>Update 5:01 p.m. PDT July 3 / 00:01 GMT July 4
Judge Kathleen Drakulich on Wednesday afternoon took the case under advisement.
Stay tuned!

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE—>
SCORCHED EARTH IN LAWLAWLAND
Hearing set in Washoe District Court 2:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday, July 3 / STAY TUNED

ThisIsReno.com major story: Registrar of Voters and Secretary of State won't tell candidate why her signatures are invalid // Officials hide behind lawyers

NevadaLabor.com First-break Exclusive
WASHOE COMMISSION CANDIDATE FILES APPEAL OF DISQUALIFICATION
Nevada's 2020 Senior Citizen of the Year defends certification

Happy Interdependence Day!

Tom Hanks for president

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST: BARBWIRE PREVIEW FOR 7-10-2024 Sparks Tribune (4:59 p.m. PDT / 23:59 GMT) 7-5-2024 — Tom Hanks is the most trusted man in America, the inheritor of the mantle of CBS News' Walter Cronkite. Hanks for President and Oprah for VP! God, I hope she's a Democrat. (Taylor Swift would never take a billion-dollar pay cut.) Oprah Winfrey actually sent Trump a memo 20 or so years ago teasing that they'd make a great presidential ticket. The Orange Crusher would need to change his underwear if the Donkeykongs nominate someone with a greater media presence than His Wonderfulness. Trump has long believed he should get an Oscar just for being The Don. Hanks has two — that's more than Trump or Ronald Reagan. The game's afoot Watson! Are you ready for a bit of a trudge?

Creeping Senility vs. Glaring Insanity
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-3-2024

Getting physical: TV T-Rump Raps America
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-26-2024

Ammotextual orgy of death
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-19-2024

Devouring their own
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-12-2024

President Donald Kardashian
UPDATED 6-7-2024: T-Rump's next underwhelming Whopper of a running mate.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-5-2024

What happened to us?
"Only then did he realize that the little boy was dead..."
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-8-2024

Vaxx up, stay safe, pray for Ukraine and almost 100 more currently war-torn lands as we once again fail to learn the hard lessons taught on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
From the Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 6-5-2024

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

War in moderation? Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-13-2022

Political Animal Crackers & Crackups       "I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn't mean you are a democracy...I'm still taken aback at the extent of indoctrination and propaganda in the United States. It is as if people there are being reared in a sort of altered reality, like broiler chickens or pigs in a pen." — Indian novelist Arundhati Roy in the Barbwire of 9-12-2004 Cancelling Arundhati Roy in today's fascist India By Salil Tripathi / Guardian of London UK 4-21-2024

The American electorate is a dumb cow that follows the herd, is easily stampeded, gets milked for all she's worth and produces offspring for meat, muscle or cannon fodder to benefit the few. When all used up, she is sent to the slaughterhouse so that she may give her overlords the last full measure of devotion, bones for Jello and hide for belts. No stars and stripes for her grave because she doesn't merit one, having been totally consumed by our consumptive system. — Barbwire 9-12-2010 "If elections mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." Travus T. Hipp, 1982 Alas and alack, where it all leads (tol'jaso, long time ago)

President Donald Kardashian
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-5-2024

MEA MAXIMA CULPA!
"Good fortune runs out for Teflon Don"
— The Guardian of London/UK

The shrinkflation of democracy
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-29-2024

Cheesily pickled politics
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-22-2024

A smattering of splatterings
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-15-2024

Powerful Culinary Union strikes a Las Vegas hotel for the first time in 22 years

GREAT CAREERS AT EXCELLENT PAY & BENEFITS Youth Apprenticeship Week Celebrated at the Building Trades Community Open Houses Saturday 5-11-2024 10a.m.-2:00p.m. Reno-Sparks+Wadsworth Click here to find your future

May Day Labor Day: Start Packing
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-1-2024

Raw bits, base hits, old bits and obits
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-24-2024

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LATEST Going Postal Updates & BULLETINS

USPS announces move of Reno mail-processing operations to California despite opposition
By Mark Robison / RGJ.com 4-23-2024

Thank you, Defendant T-Rump. Your postmaster general Rasputin DeJoyless is doing one helluva job. So what's next, moving up the assassination date to kill voting by mail this November? Whassamatta with Biden's new appointees to the Postal Service Board of Governors? Fire the sumbitch, already.

Revenge of T-Rump's postmaster general: Proposed northern Nevada/eastern California mail shunt to Sacramento slows down mail, endangers voting Washoe voter registrar warns of destruction of voting by mail By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal 2-25-2024

LATEST Going Postal Updates & BULLETINS

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The Confederacy is finally crumbling —> United Auto Workers score landslide win election at Tennessee Volkswagen plant.

A majority of eligible workers cast ballots in favor of the union, with the final tally on Friday at 2,628 to 985, or 73% for joining the UAW. The landslide win will make the Chattanooga factory the first auto plant in the South to unionize via election since the 1940s and the first foreign-owned auto plant in the South to do so. By Nora Eckert / Reuters 4-20-2024

Watering the money trees
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-17-2024

At last Barbwire and Nevada Press Association Hall of Famer Dennis Myers installed in the César Chávez NevadaLabor.com Hall of Fame on April 5, 2024 A Reno High and UNR classmate, former Reno City Attorney and Justice Court Judge Patricia Lynch, accepted the award on Dennis' behalf. MUCH MORE Ain't we a pair? Dennis Myers & Andrew Barbano inducted into César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-10-2024 The award presentation was recorded and uploaded to YouTube. See 4-10 Tribune. Gracias. Andrew

Celebrate the life & legacy of César Chávez
César XVIII April 5, 2024 / 5 Abril 2024

CésarChávezNevada.com

¡Sí se puede!

¡Union diga si!

Health care bandidos and flaming ammotextuals
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-3-2024

Longtime Culinary Union leader D. Taylor steps down

Earthquakes and 2x4's
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-27-2024

Rape means never having to say you're sorry
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-20-2024

Be careful what you wish for
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-13-2024

Jinxed Jacobs Juice Job Joylessly Junked
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-6-2024

UPDATE 2-28—> JUICED JACOBS JIG JUNKED! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OPPONENTS. On Feb. 27, the anti-church item was pulled from the Feb. 28 city council agenda. People power won a round. That's one in a row. It ain't over 'til it's over. Stay tuned.

BLACKLASH in Trumpsylvania West
Saving a church & saving the U.S. Mail
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-28-2024

Black History Month Blacklash
Reno City Council endangers historic Nevada black church for developer
Bethel A.M.E. Pastor marshals support at City Hall on Feb. 28

Revenge of Trump's postmaster general: Proposed northern Nevada/eastern California mail shunt to Sacramento slows down mail, endangers voting Washoe voter registrar warns of destruction of voting by mail By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal 2-25-2024

URGENT Send your comments to the postal overlords on or before Wednesday Feb. 28, 2024 Where's Ben Franklin when we need him?

Just win, baby
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-21-2024

Reno Starbucks workers join 13 other states in mass filing for union elections
KRNV TV-4 / KRXI TV-11 / 2-20-2024

25-year Nevada Starbux unionization archive

Barbwire by Barbano from the 2-14-2024 Sparks Tribune News broke earlier this week about the sudden closure of the Career College of Northern Nevada. The bankrupt business school was established in the 1960s and has gone thru multiple ownership and name changes. Some students were just days from graduation. I shudder to think how many will have gone into substantial long term debt with little to show for it. I feel heartbroken for those who showed up to find only insult added to their injury: Signs posted on locked doors which gave notice of closure with "indefinitely" mis-spelled. In three places. In just a single word. Bankrupt, indeed. JOB FAIR: BUILDING TRADES UNIONS TO THE RESCUE UNION APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS HOST JOB FAIR FOR STUDENTS AFFECTED BY CCNN'S UNEXPECTED CLOSURE

Taylor triumphs, T-Rump teed off
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-14-2024

Siren princesses traumatize trolls
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-7-2024

Super Bowling: Culinary Union hosts heavyweight huddle to start Super Bowl Week

Commissar T-Rump Serves Czar RasPutin
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-31-2024

After Teamsters meeting, Trump says of possible union endorsement, "Stranger things have happened"
By Jill Kolvin & Tom Krisher / Associated Press / 1-31-2024

Ben Franklin's bleary bifocals
Guest-starring Peter Sellers & The Muppets
And a true story: Song from the streets of San Francisco
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-24-2024

To Die For
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-17-2024

Nevada Association of Letter Carriers President Glenn Norton Dies.
1-16-2024

Portents from the Terminator
MASK UP: COVID, RSV and Influenza are swamping emergency rooms
BUYER BEWARE: Cancer-causing chemicals in makeup and everything plastic
(Consumer Reports)
SIGN AND VOTE: Initiative petition filed to regulate payday loan predators
APPLY TODAY: Now hiring union organizers
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-10-2024

Culinary Union sets Las Vegas hotel strike deadline 1 week before Super Bowl

Control freaks and crackerjacks
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-3-2024

Local Union Leaders Seek to Build Momentum off Strong 2023
By Andrew Zuker / OurTownReno.com 1-2-2024

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

Betty J. Barbano 2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005 Remember her laughter Larry Barbano, Frater Mei 1947-2023

Greatest Hits of 2023—>

T-Rump raps America
The Orange Crusher goes hip hop
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-27-2023

The greatest movie never made
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-20-2023

I Love Lucy: Open the Golden Door
All those thousands of unkempt travelers on our southern border are not our problem, they are our solution. Screen them. House them. Feed them. Educate their children. They will make us prosperous and proud.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-13-2023

Bonfire of the Vampires
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-29-2023

Who will answer?
Part 2
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / 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 / Special Veterans Day Edition 11-11-2023

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

¡Viva huelga!

¡Sí se puede!

SPECIAL ADDED DETRACTION
KLANWATCH —> Indivisible Northern Nevada and Battle Born Progress co-host 9/28 public meeting warning of the Orwellianly named "Moms for Liberty" now metastasizing in Nevada. MFL designated as a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. (White sheets optional but not recommended.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't say I didn't warn you as far back as 1992—>

From the NevadaLabor.com archives

President Donald Trump as Andrew Jackson? So opined a plethora of prestigious, highly-paid expert pundits on election night Nov. '16. The Barbwire warned of exactly that in the previous March. Twice. And much more as far back as 1992 and 2012. That ain't all. Read 'em and weep, pilgrims. Nobody knows nothin' By David Horsey, Staff Cartoonist / Los Angeles Times 11-9-2016 BARBWIRE SEZ the awesome Mr. Horsey's assertion that only the LAT/USC poll was accurate ain't necessarily so. Those with crystal balls shouldn't throw stones Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-15-2016 Sparks Tribune Beware the Ides of March, eh wot? Remembering the first female U.S. presidents Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-8-2016 Sparks Tribune "Any system of prolonged political paralysis and failed liberalism vomits up monsters. And the longer we remain in a state of political paralysis — especially as we stumble toward another financial collapse — the more certain it becomes that these monsters will take power." — Christopher Hedges at NationOfChange.org 17 Oct. 2016. History foreshadows a GOP November win Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-16-2016 Sparks Tribune / Updated 2-19-2016 17 Republican candidates were in the field at that time All the more reason to subscribe to Barbwire Confidential (CHEAP —> HushHush!) Democrats for Trump Barbwire exposes Trump running mate Barbwire predicted election on 16 Feb. 2016 ...and in 1992 and 2012, see below. Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs "The devil children of Ronald Reagan will rise like zombies from a bad black-and-white movie to haunt us... "The 2016 election may bring the Year of the Living Dead." Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-29-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE DEPT. How to avoid a civil war, by the man who predicted Trump By David Shariatmadari / The Guardian of London, UK / 6-10-2023

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

Betty J. Barbano 2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005 Remember her laughter Larry Barbano, Frater Mei 1947-2023

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

Eee-yo-leven! Barbwire wins 11th Nevada Press Association award 6 of 11 gold Tribune editorial page voted 2020 best Dennis Myers 2nd Barbwire nominee elected to NPA Hall of Fame Support Don Dondero and Jake Highton and David Toll and Foster Church and Norman Cardoza next Send endorsements 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