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HAPPY NEW YEAR/Little Christmas/Kwanzaa/Feliz Año Nuevo

Happy High Holly Days!
MerryChristmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah/Thanksgibleting

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Betty J. Barbano
2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005

Warring tribes battle the great black whale
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-26-2013 Sparks Tribune

Sparks Community Profile: Sheet Metal Workers Local 26 Business Manager Matt Doehring
Sparks Tribune / 12-26-2013

2013: Unlucky number for an ugly year
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-19-2013 Sparks Tribune

They don't do anything until somebody dies
UNR & downtown Reno theater firetraps show how little was learned
from the infamous Las Vegas Hilton & MGM disasters

Remembering Sen. Neal's landmark high-rise fire sprinkler law
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 12-12-2013 Sparks Tribune

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
Click above for lineup, re-run times and dates
Barbano vs. D.A. Gammick on cel-phone privacy
KRNV TV-4 Reno / KENV TV-10 Elko /
12:30 p.m. PST Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013

Freeman's distinguished career included Nevada's first mining reclamation law
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 12-12-2013

Lamenting the loss of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-5-2013 Sparks Tribune

Reader beware of what's not really there
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-28-2013 Sparks Tribune

John F. Kennedy's 2014 Inaugural Address
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-21-2013 Sparks Tribune

Breaking News and Bulletins—>
Nov. 20: 50th anniversary of Las Vegas Sun fire / Nov. 21: State Senate Majority leader Mo Denis headlines informational meeting regarding Driver’s Authorization Cards / Nov. 23: FOUR Immigration Reform marches in Reno

With friends like these, who needs enemies?
How Many More Labor Setbacks Will Occur Before Needed Changes Are Made?
LaborFightBack.org / 11-22-2013

Remembering another local school murder
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-14-2013 Sparks Tribune
UPDATES: Peggy Pierce memorial service and I-80 road construction deaths

Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable
Updates on two Laborers' Local 169 members killed and two injured on I-80
Worker dies trimming trees at MGM's Mirage on Las Vegas Strip

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
Click above for re-run times and dates
KRNV TV-4 Reno / KENV TV-10 Elko / Monday, Nov. 11, 2013

The bloody guns of October fire on November
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-7-2013 Sparks Tribune

Nevada Day Required Reading
The Lady in the Red Dress
The Barbwire's classic Nevada Day column written in 1983
The compleat history of the Silver State in 500 words

SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Sparks Tribune 10-31-2013 and previously

Let's persuade Apple to start making i-Guns here
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-24-2013 Sparks Tribune

Prayer vigil for Sparks Middle School shooting victims

Barbano on the Barbwire plots new TV season
Barbwire Special Web Edition / 10-21-2013

Déjà vu all over again and again and...
Viruses in the program: Apple downtown Reno/UNR center was never put in writing. Years of union warnings confirmed—>Las Vegas unions protest baseball park corporate welfare

Barbwire: Nevada not really a state
No, we were not Battle Born in Kenya

Top 10 reasons Nevada lives in the 19th Century

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-17-2013 Sparks Tribune

Clandestine construction cash: Laborers' Union handbillers take community's case to UNR students
Union wants student-moderated public forum

Assemblymember Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, 1954-2013

USA at crossroads: New Deal or new Confederacy?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-10-2013 Sparks Tribune
UPDATE—>Bill Moyers: Shutdown is simply secession by other means

Sex, sports and rock 'n' roll dept.
Moneyball: Invest in texting, tweeting & twerking

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 10-3-2013 Sparks Tribune

Nevada union voters can represent more than one in six
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 10-3-2013

Free at last!

As of October 1, 2013, a Nevada job applicant's credit history cannot be used to impact a hiring decision. Senate Bill 127 makes it illegal for employers to condition employment on someone's credit information and stops the longtime practice of requiring credit reports by many organizations. Some exceptions apply.
Click here to read the law and its legislative history
.

NevadaLabor.com Workers' Rights and the Law


   Unfortunately, the opening episode fails to mention that the Texas rebellion, sanitized by the Alamo myth, was a pro-slavery war. Late-coming Anglo settlers from slave states were angered that Mexico had banned slavery. Makes you want to toss your Davy Crockett pseudo-coonskin cap and plastic Bowie knife.
   Later installments show how the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and union leader César Chávez sparked a long-smoldering fire. Check listings for frequent re-runs of the six-hour PBS series.
   Let your local station know about the omissions and tell us what they say.
César Chávez is featured on the final first-run installment.
Check local listings and pbs.org for re-runs.

Almanac: On Oct. 2, 1835, the Battle of Gonzales, the first skirmish of the Texas Revolution took place. Texian settlers half-heartedly exchanged fire with Mexican soldiers near the Guadalupe River. The Mexican Army finally withdrew. It wasn't much of a fight, but it was the first.

Latino Americanos, una serie documental que marca un hito con sus seis horas presentadas en tres partes.
PBS sacará al aire la serie a nivel nacional en el otoño de 2013.

NEW—>In such dire straits that it now merits its own sordid section
We Don't Need No Education: The Neverending Series

Laborers' Union demonstrates at UNR 9/20/13
Worker files complaint with Dept. of Homeland Security
Update: Unions protest UNR student housing project giveaway
Reno Gazette-Journal front page/ 9-24-2013

We Don't Need No Education XXV—>
How to play pro ball and be cruel to your school
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-19-2013 Sparks Tribune

Applecart Tipping?
Union critics claim Apple/NVEnergy partnership will put ratepayers at risk
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 9-19-2013

Nevada unemployed unable to file claims; benefits cut
State: Just wait or go lower-tech

Muhammad Ali & Sir David Frost faced off here
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-5-2013 Sparks Tribune

Reno City Council rolls over for Waste Management—>again
Barbano: Workers, ratepayers, taxpayers & competitors all harmed, as usual

Two monopolies for the price of one
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 9-5-2013

Hope you celebrated your work on Labor Day!


LABORING FOR LABOR DAY
(6 Sept. 2010)Union members prepare for the 2010 Virginia City Labor Day Parade. the only such soirée in Nevada. Left to right are Penny Bueno (holding the yellow UAW banner) and Bob Bueno, current president of UAW 2162/AFL-CIO (with the American flag). Holding the white banner behind the Chevy are Glenda Gravelyn, left, and Rudy Viola, right, in the Indiana Jones hat. Rudy is immediate past-president of the local. Doing his best impression of Uncle Sam on steroids is Robert "Tuna" Townsend, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World union.

Grand Marshall George "Battling" Nelson of the United Auto Workers Retirees is seated in the 1957 Chevrolet behind driver Mike Murray of UAW 2162. Brother Nelson reports that the UAW has entered three General Motors products in the Monday 2 September 2013 event: a 2014 Chevrolet Impala, a 2013 GMC Acadia Denali and a 2013 Cadillac XTS. In July, the Impala received surprising rave reviews from Consumer Reports, a legendarily tough crowd. (UAW 2162 photo)

Labor Day 2013
State of the Unions: Labor advocates talk Apple, school taxes, Southeast Connector, what hurts workers here
By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal Sunday 9-1-2013

 

Thousands may have overtime claims in suit against Cosmopolitan Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Sun / Associated Press / 8-30-2013

LABOR DAY THE RIGHT WAY — Las Vegas fast food workers join nationwide demonstrations for $15 per hour living wage
Las Vegas Sun / 8-29-2013

WILL THE TEAM CHOKE IN THE ROSE BOWL?

8-29-2013: The Nevada Interscholastic Activities nee Athletic Assn. today canceled all weekend events due to the forest-fired smoke polluting the region's air which has already caused at least one death.

UNR's new football coach has kept his squad in full drills all month, blithely disclaiming that "we're watching our asthma guys."

So is self-taught physician Brian Polian just another morally obtuse dumb jock or crazy like a fox, keeping his players out in the smog to prepare them for playing UCLA in the infamous dirty air of Los Angeles?

Be well. Raise hell. —> AB

UPDATE: On August 31, the Nevada-Reno Wolf Pack lost to No. 21 UCLA 58-20, irrespective of the effusive cheerleading of the local jockocracy. Former Coach Chris Ault may prove prescient, having retired when he recognized that the envelope he pushed for four decades is finally impenetrable. In sports-besotted America, you just can't run with the pros on a semi-pro budget in a self-defeating state that believes we don't need no education.

Corporate welfare for downtown casino railroad trench turns into a nine-figure payday loan for City of Reno
Extension demands sales tax increase from legislature
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-29-2013

LAWNMOWER MAN, BLADE RUNNERS AND SMOKE EATERS —> March on Washington 50th anniversary commemorators were hit and endangered by employee at Reno federal courthouse

WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN, TONTO? All participants in the demonstration were reminded that breathing is both voluntary and optional. There is no requirement forcing anyone to inhale Reno's foul forest-fired air. (Photo courtesy of L. Martina Young/APoeticBody.com)

Reno rally to mark the 50th anniversary of the fabled 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom
10 a.m.–12 noon Saturday, August 24, Bruce Thompson Federal Courthouse, S. Virginia & Liberty streets

Nevada State AFL-CIO not officially onboard with teachers' K-12 tax initiative despite leader's support
Las Vegas Sun / 8-28-2013

We don't need no education, Part 24
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-22-2013 Sparks Tribune
Web extra — Bill O'Reilly's sex education

Another public relations coup for Nevada
Report: Every nursing home in Nevada cited by inspectors
Chronic understaffing in a very lucrative and growing industry

"Nevada is one of two states where every nursing home was cited with one or more deficiencies by state health inspectors, and one in three nursing homes was cited for a severe deficiency, meaning a resident suffered actual harm or was in imminent danger."
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 8-12-2013

Major union leaders blast Obamacare for hurting health plans
Labor starts to bail: Democratic health care plan support erodes
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-1-2013
Full text of letter to Reid and Pelosi

Workers & taxpayers protest Apple's lack of transparency
Schools pay the price of corporate welfare
Powerful demonstration at Reno Summit Sierra shopping complex
Newly updated with video and photos / Power company boss fires back


Visitors: Is America still tough enough?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-1-2013 Sparks Tribune


The presence of all colors gives you black
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-25-2013 Sparks Tribune

Bagging black bucks in the Gunshine State
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-18-2013 Sparks Tribune

7-15-2013 —> César Chávez came to Reno 27 years ago today

Obama pays tribute to late Reno labor leader

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

NAGPAC's Ghost Riders Saddle Up Again
Blackguards challenge Nevada's legendary None of the Above ballot option
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-17-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Updated 6-22-2012, 9-8-2012 and 7-13-2013: Appellate court throws out GOP attempt to nuke nihilistic None of the Above

Blogging with the rabble on the Tower of Babel
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-11-2013 Sparks Tribune

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
7-8-2013: Nevada OK's Internet gambling and ignores addiction

Death panels hard at work right here in River City
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-4-2013 Sparks Tribune

Clarence Thomas, Little Anthony & the Imperials
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-27-2013 Sparks Tribune

Clinging to the Ledge
Postmortems for fun and prophet

Rosy the poll dancer's destructive seduction
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-20-2013 Sparks Tribune

Googling for liquid Romanian castanets
Other than doing our laundry, what should we do about
Big Brother peeking into our collective lace undies?

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 6-13-2013 Sparks Tribune

Enron II: Nevada's Battle-Born Toxic Event
Indigence and indigestion from ingestion of Warren Buffett's buffet
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-6-2013 Sparks Tribune

Hotel casino dealers at Paris and Bally's Las Vegas vote overwhelmingly to unionize
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 6-3-2013

The 2013 looney tunes legislative lexicon
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-30-2013 Sparks Tribune

Gov. Veto El Obtúse rides again

D-DAY DEFEAT FOR WORKERS' WAGES / 6-6-2013Gov. Veto El Obtúse has vetoed Assembly Bill 218. Feeling invaded? Prepare for more as he challenges the record of his predecessor, Jim the Dim, for vetoing anything and everything that might help the little guy.

5-31-2013 — Nevada Gov. Veto El Obtúse's first veto of the 2013 legislative session came on a bill that would have expanded the rights of injured and oppressed workers victimized by illegal employment practices. What did we expect from this guy?

SB180 was a Democrat-backed measure that would have required courts to award damages, lost wages, benefits, costs and attorney's fees to workers who prevail in employment discrimination suits. Existing law caps damages to two years of lost wages and actual damages. In his veto message, the Republican governor said the bill goes too far by exposing employers to a wide range of damages and fees. Gov. Sandoval vetoed 28 bills from the session two years ago.

Sandoval vetoes SB180 employment discrimination bill, says it "goes too far"
Cy Ryan / Las Vegas Sun / 5-31-2013

Read the actual vetoed measure for yourself

Bad News & Worse News Dept.—>
Former Nevada Consumer Advocate Jon Wellinghoff to leave FERC chairmanship
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 5-29-2013

Mega-investor Warren Buffet to acquire NVEnergy
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 5-29-2013


Culinary Union launches new website warning of potential strikes at hotel
Las Vegas Sun / 5-31-2013

Assembly Bill 218 to strengthen Nevada prevailing wage law passes both houses on party line votes

California's Prop 13 lies at the root of Nevada's fiscal collapse
Dennis Myers remembers the Tax Shaft of 1981
Reno News & Review / May 23, 2013

Public shut out of utility legislation, putting ratepayers at risk
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-23-2013
NevadaLabor.com Energy War Room

MAY 29: Sen. Harry Reid Keynotes Path to Citizenship Public Assembly
Little Flower Church / Kietzke and E. Plumb Ln. / Reno, NV

Details in the May 23 Barbwire>
Longing for the wisdom of the grateful dead
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-23-2013 Sparks Tribune / Updated 6-1-2013

Travus T. Hipp
Feb. 20, 1937
— May 18, 2012

NEW: The Bullfrog Times-Picayune and
Sticky Stones: Last blast from the past

NEWLY UPLOADED: Love ain't free
Evelyn Kerr's remembrances of the life and times of Travus T. Hipp from the pages of TimeMazine

CD available

Star-stuck: Dirty deals for dirty movies
Ghostrider Nicolas Cage sticks it to Nevada school kids
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 5-16-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Mr. Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

CLINGING TO THE LEDGE: SB457 (municipal election ward voting for Henderson, Reno, Sparks and Carson City) comes before the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee on May 7 along with SB458 (uniform election act) and SB325 (plain language ballot). Read more about them here. Show up and if you can't —> turn on, tune in and tell a friend. UPDATE: In the finest traditions of GOP voter suppression, Nevada Gov. Veto El Obtúse vetoed the bill.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.
(Pardon my Spanglish.)

The asinine assassination of KJFK talk radio
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-2-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

4-28-2013
National Workers Memorial Day of the Dead

You're not worth much dead or alive
Impose the death penalty on co
mpanies knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary

Gov. Sandoval's $3 million New York State of Mind
New Nevada ad campaign slips on a sideways banana

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sunday 4-21-2013 Reno Gazette-Journal

Portions of the above also appeared in the 4-10-2013 RGJ and
the 4-18-2013 Reno News & Review

Hopelessly trying to win an earthquake
I publicly wept when they looked at me.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-18-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Sitting ducks in Sparks as storks stalk Carson
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-11-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

César Chávez's fight continues
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-4-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Join the campaign for a César Chávez national holiday
Sign the petition

Tony Mayorga: César Chávez event looks like America
Reno Gazette-Journal Guest Commentary / 3-28-2013

Gov. Sandoval, César Chávez and the Grateful Dead
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-21-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Thank you/gracias for a record attendance at César Chávez XI. Watch this website for photos and information about the event. Remember to mark Monday, 31 March 2014 on your calendar.
Same time. Same place.
¡Sí se puede! 

César Chávez Celebration XI
Join us again on Thursday, 28 March 2013
Gov. Sandoval declines invitation for third year in a row
Celebración de César Chávez XI
Jueves, 28 de Marzo, 2013 / Circus Circus - Reno

El Gobernador de Nevada, Brian Sandoval, declinó la invitación por el tercer año consecutivo.

Obama pays tribute to late Reno labor leader

THE WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered photo from 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. (UPDATE: On 3-19-2009, President Obama paid tribute to Brother Contreras when he spoke in the Los Angeles 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.

We Don't Need No Education: Part XIX—>
Fixing education: The bulldozer solution
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

AFL-CIO and NAACP support Obama choice of Perez for new Secretary of Labor
Las Vegas Sun / 3-18-2013

Breaking Solidarity: Union goes unilateral, striking LV cabbies grumble, strike expansion considered
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 3-15-2013

Papa Francisco Primero: ¡Viva La Revolución!
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano vs. vindictive lawmakers: Cutting prevailing wages won't stimulate economy
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13

Nevada’s privileged mining industry battles the future with ‘campaign contributions’
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13


IN THE BLACK AND COMMITTING BLACKMAIL—>TV station boss and former university chancellor Jim Rogers won't cave to mining industry after advertising cancellation
Las Vegas Sun / 3-2-13

We Don't Need No Education Part XVIII—>
Petition pondering & pandering:
Just Say No, a Nevada tradition

CLINGING TO THE LEDGE—>Do the Nancy Reagan thing
Just say no to the teachers' tax petition and invalidate term limits and right-to-work-for-less in the process. What's not to like?
Barbwire by Barbano / Special Online Abstinence Edition / 3-5-2013

An edited and updated version appeared in the 3-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Las Vegas taxi drivers authorize strike to begin 3 March 2013
Las Vegas Sun / 2-28-2013

The brutal law of unintended consequences
Between the devil and the deep Joe Neal
Long-lost research may invalidate more than 100 longstanding Nevada laws
IRONY ALERT—>
New higher electoral standard for teachers' tax petition may generate more support
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program —> Almost the entire Feb. 27 show concerned the teachers' tax petition. The Barbwire in the Feb. 28 Sparks Tribune will have a major impact on it both legislatively and electorally. Turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

We Don't Need No Education Part XVI —> School shootings:
Reno GOP Senator introduces bill to shoot schools in fiscal foot

Where is gun control when we need it?
Can you stimulate the economy by cutting wages?

U-News e-Bulletin by Andrew Barbano / 2-26-2013

Culinary Union plans second demonstration at LV Cosmopolitan on Friday, March 1, 2013
Las Vegas Sun / 2-27-2013

Slain taxi driver Michael Boldon leaves void at Desert Cab Co.
Las Vegas Sun / 2-23-2013

Dishonest Abe: white hood on a stovepipe hat
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-21-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Las Vegas area black students three times more likely to get expelled than non-blacks
Odds of getting suspended are more than double
Some schools issue almost as many suspensions as they have students

Las Vegas Sun / 2-15-2013
See the ongoing Barbwire investigative series "We Don't Need No Education"

Pope Guido Sarducci & Wildhorse Annie II
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Unions come to embrace immigration reform
Culinary Union, similar groups led the way to change of heart on issue
Las Vegas Sun / 2-7-2013

Barbano back on Sam Shad's statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV program

Greasing the suckers and goosing the gullible
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XIV
Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Culinary Union pickets Las Vegas Strip for the first time in a decade
Las Vegas Sun / 1-30-2013

First since 1970s—>Gomorrah South cabbie strike looms
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 1-29-2013

Clinging to the ledge and paying for our sins
Governor pays back Nevada health insurance monopoly/major campaign contributor
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-24-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

MLK: Born Jan. 15, celebrated on Obama Inauguration Day II

Moonhowlers, smoking guns & warning labels
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-17-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Power politics & prescient predictions
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-10-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Wine, winners, whiners & white guys
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-3-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Happy New Year / Feliz Año Nuevo
May you and yours enjoy a peaceful and prosperous time

Happy High Holly Days

Bestest of the grotesquest for 2013
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-27-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Betty J. Barbano
2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005


NEW—>In such dire straits that it now merits its own sordid section
We Don't Need No Education: The Neverending Series


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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

 

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Editor's Note: Many of the news links on this site are from Nevada dailies. In late 2006, the Reno Gannett-Journal began nuking much of its archive. If you encounter any broken links, I encourage you to contact them and send me a copy. On the one hand, they want to build their web traffic in order to increase the price of ads. On the other hand, they are killing that very traffic. Far be it from me to reconcile the Dilbert-style motivations of an outfit for which a 38 percent net profit is not enough. If you can explain it, please enlighten me. (Before you e-mail me anything complicated, please read this bulletinAB) UPDATE: In early 2008, the Las Vegas Sun "upgraded " its website, nuking more than a dozen years of links. If you find an orphaned Sun story, search their site for the title.

 

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
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

 


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BREAKING NEWS
AND THEN SOME —>

They don't do anything until somebody dies
UNR & downtown Reno theater firetraps show how little was learned from the infamous Las Vegas Hilton & MGM disasters
Remembering Sen. Neal's landmark high-rise fire sprinkler law
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 12-12-2013 Sparks Tribune

Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable

Nevada unemployed unable to file claims; benefits cut
State: Just wait or go lower-tech

Thousands may have overtime claims in suit against Cosmopolitan Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Sun / Associated Press / 8-30-2013

Corporate welfare for downtown casino railroad trench turns into a nine-figure payday loan for the City of Reno
Extension demands sales tax increase from legislature
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-29-2013

Major union leaders blast Obamacare for hurting health plans
Labor starts to bail: Democratic health care plan support erodes
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-1-2013
Full text of letter to Reid and Pelosi

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
7-8-2013: Nevada OK's Internet gambling and ignores addiction

Hotel casino dealers at Paris and Bally's Las Vegas vote overwhelmingly to unionize
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 6-3-2013

Culinary Union launches new website warning of potential strikes at Las Vegas hotels
Las Vegas Sun / 5-31-2013
Culinary Union Las Vegas travelers advisory website

Star-stuck: Dirty deals for dirty movies
Ghostrider Nicolas Cage sticks it to Nevada school kids
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 5-16-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Mr. Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

You're not worth much dead or alive
Impose the death penalty on co
mpanies knowingly causing worker deaths
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Gov. Sandoval's $3 million New York State of Mind
New Nevada ad campaign slips on a sideways banana

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sunday 4-21-2013 Reno Gazette-Journal

Portions of the above also appeared in the 4-10-2013 RGJ and the 4-18-2013 Reno News & Review
Sitting ducks in Sparks as storks stalk Carson
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-11-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Breaking Solidarity: Union goes unilateral, striking LV cabbies grumble, strike expansion considered
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 3-15-2013

Las Vegas Strip Search: Culinary workers picket Cosmopolitan over lack of contract
Las Vegas Sun / 3-1-13

Las Vegas taxi drivers authorize strike to begin 3 March 2013
Las Vegas Sun / 2-28-2013

Culinary Union plans second demonstration at LV Cosmopolitan on Friday, March 1, 2013
Las Vegas Sun / 2-27-2013

Slain taxi driver Michael Boldon leaves void at Desert Cab Co.
Las Vegas Sun / 2-23-2013

Culinary Union pickets Las Vegas Strip for the first time in a decade
Las Vegas Sun / 1-30-2013

First since 1970s—>Gomorrah South cabbie strike looms
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 1-29-2013

Bestest of the grotesquest for 2013
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-27-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune


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HOT AUGUST STRIKE! SPFPA LOCAL 1010 security guards man picket lines in front of the Reno Grand Sierra nee Reno Hilton during the 1996 strike which resulted in the first security guard union contract at a Nevada resort in more than three decades. Left to right are Jack Stratton, Jay Vanderpool, Al Corral and Chuck Fisher. The outdoor arena where the Beach Boys appeared can be seen in the right background. Although they are members of three unions, the Beach Boys crossed the picket line and performed.The little union that could still roars in Reno and Laughlin.

Chuck Fisher, 1944-2011
Barbwire by Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-4-2011

Tura Satana (Jurman), noted 1960's motion picture actress and Nevada security guard union hellraiser, dies in Reno at 72

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Note:
Many of the news links on this site are from Nevada dailies. In late 2006, the Reno Gannett-Journal began nuking much of its archive. If you encounter any broken links, I encourage you to contact them and send me a copy. On the one hand, they want to build their web traffic in order to increase the price of ads. On the other hand, they are killing that very traffic. Far be it from me to reconcile the Dilbert-style motivations of an outfit for which a 38 percent net profit is not enough. If you can explain it, please enlighten me. (Before you e-mail me, please read this bulletin AB) UPDATE: In early 2008, the Las Vegas Sun "upgraded " its website, nuking more than a dozen years of links. If you find an orphaned Sun story, search their site for the title.


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Follytix
"If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." — Travus T. Hipp, 1982

BREAKING NEWS
AND THEN SOME —>

We Don't Need No Education: Time to give up?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-30-2014 Sparks Tribune

Barbano and Nevada State AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer Danny Thompson on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
Click above for lineup, re-run times and dates

Justice: Just another word for nothing left to lose
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-23-2014 Sparks Tribune

Former Nevada Assemblyman Bernie Anderson dies
UPDATE: Funeral 10:00 a.m. PST Saturday 1-18-2014 @ Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Sparks for longtime educator and Judiciary Committee Chairman
San Francisco Chronicle / Associated Press 1-10-2014

2013: Unlucky number for an ugly year
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-19-2013 Sparks Tribune

They don't do anything until somebody dies
UNR & downtown Reno theater firetraps show
how little was learned from Las Vegas Hilton & MGM disasters

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 12-12-2013 Sparks Tribune

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
Click above for lineup, re-run times and dates
Barbano vs. D.A. Gammick on cel-phone privacy
12:30 p.m. PST / KRNV TV-4 Reno/KENV TV-10 Elko
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013

RENO, Nev. (12-5-2013) — Former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital trustee Vivian Freeman died at her home in Reno. She was 86 years old.

Freeman's distinguished career included Nevada's first mining reclamation law
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 12-12-2013

Assemblymember Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, 1954-2013

Lamenting the loss of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-5-2013 Sparks Tribune

Reader beware of what's not really there
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-28-2013 Sparks Tribune

John F. Kennedy's 2014 Inaugural Address
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-21-2013 Sparks Tribune

Breaking News and Bulletins—>
Nov. 21: State Senate Majority leader Mo Denis headlines informational meeting regarding Driver’s Authorization Cards
Nov. 23: FOUR Immigration Reform marches in Reno

With friends like these, who needs enemies?
How Many More Labor Setbacks Will Occur Before Needed Changes Are Made?
LaborFightBack.org / 11-22-2013

The bloody guns of October fire on November
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-7-2013 Sparks Tribune

Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable.
Nevada Day Required Reading
The Lady in the Red Dress
The Barbwire's classic Nevada Day column written in 1983
The compleat history of the Silver State in 500 words

SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Sparks Tribune 10-31-2013 and previously

Let's persuade Apple to start making i-Guns here
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-24-2013 Sparks Tribune

Barbwire: Nevada not really a state
No, we were not Battle Born in Kenya
Top 10 reasons Nevada lives in the 19th Century

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-17-2013 Sparks Tribune

Assemblymember Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, 1954-2013

USA at crossroads: New Deal or new Confederacy?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-10-2013 Sparks Tribune
UPDATE—>Bill Moyers: Shutdown is simply secession by other means

Sex, sports and rock 'n' roll dept.
Moneyball: Invest in texting, tweeting & twerking

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 10-3-2013 Sparks Tribune

Nevada union voters can represent more than one in six
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 10-3-2013

NEW—>In such dire straits that it now merits its own sordid section
We Don't Need No Education: The Neverending Series

Nevada unemployed unable to file claims; benefits cut
State: Just wait or go lower-tech

Corporate welfare for downtown casino railroad trench turns into a nine-figure payday loan for the City of Reno
Extension demands sales tax increase from legislature
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-29-2013

Reno rally to mark the 50th anniversary of the fabled 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom
10 a.m.–12 noon Saturday, August 24, 2013
Bruce Thompson Federal Courthouse, S. Virginia & Liberty streets

Nevada State AFL-CIO not officially onboard with teachers' K-12 tax initiative despite leader's support
Las Vegas Sun / 8-28-2013

We don't need no education, Part 24
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-22-2013 Sparks Tribune
Web extra — Bill O'Reilly's sex education

Major union leaders blast Obamacare for hurting health plans
Labor starts to bail: Democratic health care plan support erodes
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-1-2013
Full text of letter to Reid and Pelosi

Visitors: Is America still tough enough?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-1-2013 Sparks Tribune

Workers & taxpayers protest Apple's lack of transparency
Schools pay the price of corporate welfare

The presence of all colors gives you black
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-25-2013 Sparks Tribune

Bagging black bucks in the Gunshine State
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-18-2013 Sparks Tribune

NAGPAC's Ghost Riders Saddle Up Again
Blackguards challenge Nevada's legendary None of the Above ballot option

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-17-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Updated 6-22-2012, 9-8-2012
7-13-2013: Appellate court throws out GOP attempt to nuke nihilistic None of the Above

Blogging with the rabble on the Tower of Babel
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-11-2013 Sparks Tribune

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
7-8-2013: Nevada OK's internet gambling and ignores addiction

Death panels hard at work right here in River City
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-4-2013 Sparks Tribune

Clarence Thomas, Little Anthony & the Imperials
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-27-2013 Sparks Tribune

Rosy the poll dancer's destructive seduction
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-20-2013 Sparks Tribune

Googling for liquid Romanian castanets
Other than doing our laundry, what should we do about
Big Brother peeking into our collective lace undies?

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 6-13-2013 Sparks Tribune

The 2013 looney tunes legislative lexicon
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from the 5-30-2013 Sparks Tribune/Updated 6-1-2013

Bill to strengthen Nevada prevailing wage law passes both houses on party line votes

MAY 29: Sen. Harry Reid Keynotes Path to Citizenship Public Assembly
Little Flower Church / Kietzke and E. Plumb Ln. / Reno, NV

Details in the May 23 Barbwire>
Longing for the wisdom of the grateful dead
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from the 5-23-2013 Sparks Tribune/Updated 6-1-2013

California's Prop 13 lies at the root of Nevada's fiscal collapse
Dennis Myers remembers the Tax Shaft of 1981
Reno News & Review / May 23, 2013

Public shut out of utility legislation, putting ratepayers at risk
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-23-2013
NevadaLabor.com Energy War Room

Star-stuck: Dirty deals for dirty movies
Ghostrider Nicolas Cage sticks it to Nevada school kids
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 5-16-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Mr. Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

CLINGING TO THE LEDGE: SB457 (municipal election ward voting for Henderson, Reno, Sparks and Carson City) comes before the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee on May 7 along with SB458 (uniform election act) and SB325 (plain language ballot). Read more about them here (and in the May 23 Barbwire). Show up and if you can't —> turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.
(Pardon my Spanglish.)

The asinine assassination of KJFK talk radio
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-2-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

National Workers Memorial Day of the Dead
You're not worth much dead or alive
Impose the death penalty on co
mpanies knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary
Updated in the Barbwire of 11-7-2013

Gov. Sandoval's $3 million New York State of Mind
New Nevada ad campaign slips on a sideways banana

Barbwire by Barbano
Expanded from
the Sunday 4-21-2013 Reno Gazette-Journal

Portions of the above also appeared in the 4-10-2013 RGJ and
the 4-18-2013 Reno News & Review

Hopelessly trying to win an earthquake
I publicly wept when they looked at me.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-18-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Sitting ducks in Sparks as storks stalk Carson
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-11-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

César Chávez's fight continues
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-4-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education: Part XIX—>
Fixing education: The bulldozer solution
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Gov. Sandoval, César Chávez and the Grateful Dead
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-21-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

AFL-CIO and NAACP support Obama choice of Perez as new Secretary of Labor
Las Vegas Sun / 3-18-2013

Papa Francisco Primero:
¡Viva La Revolución!

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XVIII—>
Petition pondering & pandering:
Just Say No, a Nevada tradition

CLINGING TO THE LEDGE—>Do the Nancy Reagan thing
Just say no to the teachers' tax petition and invalidate term limits and right-to-work-for-less in the process. What's not to like?
Barbwire by Barbano / Special Online Abstinence Edition / 3-5-2013

An edited and updated version appeared in the 3-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Las Vegas taxi drivers authorize strike to begin 3 March 2013
Las Vegas Sun / 2-28-2013

The brutal law of unintended consequences
Between the devil and the deep Joe Neal
Long-lost research may invalidate more than 100 longstanding Nevada laws
IRONY ALERT—>
New higher electoral standard for teachers' tax petition may generate more support
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program —> Almost the entire Feb. 27 show concerned the teachers' tax petition. The Barbwire in the Feb. 28 Sparks Tribune will have a major impact on it both legislatively and electorally. Turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

We Don't Need No Education Part XVI —>
School shootings:
Reno GOP Senator introduces bill to shoot schools in fiscal foot

Where is gun control when we need it?
Can you stimulate the economy by cutting wages?

U-News e-Bulletin by Andrew Barbano / 2-26-2013

The brutal law of unintended consequences
Between the devil and the deep Joe Neal
Long-lost research may invalidate more than 100 longstanding Nevada laws
IRONY ALERT—>

New higher electoral standard for teachers' tax petition may generate more support

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program —> Almost the entire Feb. 27 show concerned the teachers' tax petition. The Barbwire in the Feb. 28 Sparks Tribune will have a major impact on it both legislatively and electorally. Turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

Dishonest Abe: white hood on a stovepipe hat
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-21-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Las Vegas area black students three times more likely to get expelled than non-blacks
Odds of getting suspended are more than double
Some schools issue almost as many suspensions as they have students

Las Vegas Sun / 2-15-2013
See the ongoing Barbwire investigative series "We Don't Need No Education"

Pope Guido Sarducci & Wildhorse Annie II
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Unions come to embrace immigration reform
Culinary Union, similar groups led the way to change of heart on issue
Las Vegas Sun / 2-7-2013

ED XV:Greasing the suckers and goosing the gullible
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XIV
Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Clinging to the ledge and paying for our sins
Governor pays back Nevada health insurance monopoly/major campaign contributor
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-24-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

MLK: Born Jan. 15, celebrated on Obama Inauguration Day II

Moonhowlers, smoking guns & warning labels
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-17-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Power politics & prescient predictions
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-10-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Nevada to mining: Never mind (the tax thing)
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife 1-9-2013

Barbano back on Sam Shad's statewide
Nevada Newsmakers
TV program

Wine, winners, whiners & white guys
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-3-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Bestest of the grotesquest for 2013
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-27-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

BallotBoxing.US
BARBWIRE BY BARBANO
DoctorLawyerWatch.com
Nevada Newspapers

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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
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

 

 



Casino Dealer News

From Poor Denny's Almanac
On Jan. 28, 1968, responding to a complaint filed by the American Federation of Casino and Gaming Employees, the National Labor Relations Board upheld a hearing examiner's decision ordering some Las Vegas casinos to rehire 42 casino workers, halt anti-union activities, and post notices telling workers they would no longer be penalized for union activity.

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Workers' Rights & the Law

The Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City

BREAKING NEWS
AND THEN SOME —>

Breaking News and Bulletins—>
Nov. 21, 2013: State Senate Majority leader Mo Denis headlines informational meeting regarding Driver’s Authorization Cards
Nov. 23: FOUR Immigration Reform marches in Reno

With friends like these, who needs enemies?
How Many More Labor Setbacks Will Occur Before Needed Changes Are Made?
LaborFightBack.org / 11-22-2013

Free at last!

As of October 1, 2013, a Nevada job applicant's credit history cannot be used to impact a hiring decision. Senate Bill 127 makes it illegal for employers to condition employment on someone's credit information and stops the longtime practice of requiring credit reports by many organizations. Some exceptions apply. Click here to read the law and its legislative history.

Clarence Thomas, Little Anthony & the Imperials
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-27-2013 Sparks Tribune

From Poor Denny's Almanac
On Jan. 28, 1968, responding to a complaint filed by the American Federation of Casino and Gaming Employees, the National Labor Relations Board upheld a hearing examiner's decision ordering some Las Vegas casinos to rehire 42 casino workers, halt anti-union activities, and post notices telling workers they would no longer be penalized for union activity.

 

 

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Editor's Note: Many of the news links on this site are from Nevada dailies. In late 2006, the Reno Gannett-Journal began nuking much of its archive. If you encounter any broken links, I encourage you to contact them and send me a copy. On the one hand, they want to build their web traffic in order to increase the price of ads. On the other hand, they are killing that very traffic. Far be it from me to reconcile the Dilbert-style motivations of an outfit for which a 38 percent net profit is not enough. If you can explain it, please enlighten me. (Before you e-mail me, please read this bulletinAB) UPDATE: In early 2008, the Las Vegas Sun "upgraded " its website, nuking more than a dozen years of links. If you find an orphaned Sun story, search their site for the title.

Construction

Ironworkers from Local 118 raising the high iron at the Reno Peppermill Hotel-Casino expansion.
(NevadaLabor.com photo)

BREAKING NEWS AND THEN SOME —>

Sparks Community Profile: Sheet Metal Workers Local 26 Business Manager Matt Doehring
Sparks Tribune / 12-26-2013

They don't do anything until somebody dies
UNR & downtown Reno theater firetraps show how little was learned from Las Vegas Hilton & MGM disasters
Remembering Sen. Neal's landmark high-rise fire sprinkler law
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 12-12-2013 Sparks Tribune

The bloody guns of October fire on November
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-7-2013 Sparks Tribune

Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable.

Déjà vu all over again and again and...
Viruses in the program: Apple downtown Reno/UNR center was never put in writing—>
Apple burns the mouse pad: Years of union warnings confirmed. Reno Gazette-Journal editorial demands more transparency in corporate welfare tax giveways like Apple and UNR. Better late than never?

Will Gomorrah South learn?
Southern Nevada unions protest wealthy corporate welfare queens' scheme to build Las Vegas 51s baseball park with public funds
$88 million deal would be second only to Apple's all-time shakedown record of $89mm
Does the Howard Hughes outfit really need all that money?
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 10-19-2013
NevadaLabor.com Corporate Welfare Archive // Cabellyup.com

Clandestine construction cash: Laborers' Union handbillers take community's case to UNR students
Union wants student-moderated public forum

University just won't learn—>
The smoking gun: UN,R subcontractor hires and exploits undocumented workers
Dennis Myers/Reno News & Review/9-26-2013

Just like old times: UN,R and Hot August Nights
Barbwire by Barbano/Sparks Tribune/9-26-13

Laborers' Union demonstrates at UNR 9/20/13
Worker files complaint with Dept. of Homeland Security
Update: Unions protest UNR student housing project giveaway
Reno Gazette-Journal front page/ 9-24-2013

Applecart Tipping?
Union critics claim Apple/NVEnergy partnership will put ratepayers at risk
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 9-19-2013

Nevada unemployed unable to file claims; benefits cut
State: Just wait or go lower-tech

LABOR DAY 2013: State of the Unions —>
Non-Nevada contractors, including Apple, not hiring locally continue to plague workers
Reno Gazette-Journal 9-1-2013

Workers & taxpayers protest Apple's lack of transparency
Schools pay the price of corporate welfare

Gov. Veto El Obtúse rides again: AB 218 scuttled

AB 218 to strengthen Nevada prevailing wage law passes both houses on party line votes

California's Prop 13 lies at the root of Nevada's fiscal collapse
Dennis Myers remembers the Tax Shaft of 1981
Reno News & Review / May 23, 2013

Public shut out of utility legislation, putting ratepayers at risk
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-23-2013
NevadaLabor.com Energy War Room

National Workers Memorial Day of the Dead
You're not worth much dead or alive
Impose the death penalty on co
mpanies knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary
Updated in the Barbwire of 11-7-2013

Sitting ducks in Sparks as storks stalk Carson
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-11-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

César Chávez's fight continues
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-4-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Big money is involved in battle over building defects
Constructive dialogue? By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 4-4-2013

Barbano vs. vindictive lawmakers: Cutting prevailing wages won't stimulate economy
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13

We Don't Need No Education Part XVI —> School shootings:
Reno GOP Senator introduces bill to shoot schools in fiscal foot

Where is gun control when we need it?
Can you stimulate the economy by cutting wages?

U-News e-Bulletin by Andrew Barbano / 2-26-2013 / Updated 4-16-2013

Construction corporate welfare: Cabellyup.com

NevadaLabor.com Worker Safety Statewide News Roundup

2004 Construction News

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Mining

NO FISHING (NO FISH) — Run-off ponds where the leach pad fluids are still collected at the Anaconda/ARCO/British Petroleum copper pit at Weed Heights near Yerington in Lyon County, Nevada.

(Photo copyright © 2006 Debra Reid/Sparks Tribune)

Nevada's Cancer Kids


Recommended Reading: The Las Vegas Gleaner
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We don't care. We don't have to: Jerrit Canyon Nevada gold mine cited for 61 safety violations
AP / Las Vegas Sun 1-31-2014

RENO, Nev. (12-5-2013) — Former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital trustee Vivian Freeman died at her home in Reno. She was 86 years old.

Freeman's distinguished career included Nevada's first mining reclamation law
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 12-12-2013

Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable.
Newmont slated for another wet-noodle punishment

Comstock residents picket mining company's shareholder meeting
Barbwire by Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune 6-27-2013

Nevada’s privileged mining industry battles the future with ‘campaign contributions’
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13


IN THE BLACK AND COMMITTING BLACKMAIL—>TV station boss and former university chancellor Jim Rogers won't cave to mining industry after advertising cancellation
Las Vegas Sun / 3-2-13

Nevada to mining: Never mind (the tax thing)
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife 1-9-2013

NEVADA'S CANCER KIDS: New lawsuit claims Fallon cancer cluster isn't over and leaking fuel pipeline is cause

Remembering Mother Jones in coal country

2005-2006 Mining Archive

2004 Mining Archive

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Clinging to the Ledge


The Nevada Legislature in Carson City
The capitol dome may be seen in the left background.

We Don't Need No Education: Time to give up?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-30-2014 Sparks Tribune

Grim picture painted of mental health care in Nevada
By Ed Vogel / Las Vegas Review-Journal 1-29-2014

They don't do anything until somebody dies
UNR & downtown Reno theater firetraps mean little was learned from Vegas Hilton & MGM disasters
Remembering Sen. Neal's landmark high-rise fire sprinkler law
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 12-12-2013 Sparks Tribune

RENO, Nev. (12-5-2013) — Former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital trustee Vivian Freeman died this morning at her home in Reno. She was 86 years old.

Freeman's distinguished career included Nevada's first mining reclamation law
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 12-12-2013

Clandestine construction cash: Laborers' Union handbillers take community's case to UNR students
Union wants student-moderated public forum

Assemblymember Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, 1954-2013

USA at crossroads: New Deal or new Confederacy?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-10-2013 Sparks Tribune
UPDATE—>Bill Moyers: Shutdown is simply secession by other means

NEW—>In such dire straits that it now merits its own sordid section
We Don't Need No Education: The Neverending Series

Free at last!
As of October 1, 2013, a Nevada job applicant's credit history cannot be used to impact a hiring decision. Senate Bill 127 makes it illegal for employers to condition employment on someone's credit information and stops the longtime practice of requiring credit reports by many organizations. Some exceptions apply.
Click here to read the law and its legislative history.

Corporate welfare for downtown casino railroad trench turns into a nine-figure payday loan for the City of Reno
Extension demands sales tax increase from legislature
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-29-2013

Workers & taxpayers protest Apple's lack of transparency
Schools pay the price of corporate welfare

Rosy the poll dancer's destructive seduction
Barbwire by Barbano
Expanded from
the 6-20-2013 Sparks Tribune

Enron II: Nevada's Battle-Born Toxic Event
Indigence and indigestion from ingestion of Warren Buffett's buffet
Barbwire by Barbano
Expanded from the 6-6-2013 Sparks Tribune

Gov. Veto El Obtúse rides again

The 2013 looney tunes legislative lexicon
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-30-2013 Sparks Tribune / Updated 6-1-2013

Bill to strengthen Nevada prevailing wage law passes both houses on party line votes

MAY 29: Sen. Harry Reid Keynotes Path to Citizenship Public Assembly
Little Flower Church / Kietzke and E. Plumb Ln. / Reno, NV
Details in the May 23 Barbwire>
Longing for the wisdom of the grateful dead
Barbwire by Barbano
Expanded from
the 5-23-2013 Sparks Tribune
Updated 6-1-2013

California's Prop 13 lies at the root of Nevada's fiscal collapse
Dennis Myers remembers the Tax Shaft of 1981
Reno News & Review / May 23, 2013

Public shut out of utility legislation, putting ratepayers at risk
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-23-2013
NevadaLabor.com Energy War Room

Star-stuck: Dirty deals for dirty movies
Ghostrider Nicolas Cage sticks it to Nevada school kids
Barbwire by Barbano
Expanded from the 5-16-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Mr. Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire by Barbano 
Expanded from the 5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

CLINGING TO THE LEDGE: SB457 (municipal election ward voting for Henderson, Reno, Sparks and Carson City) comes before the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee on May 7 along with SB458 (uniform election act) and SB325 (plain language ballot). Read more about them here. Show up and if you can't —> turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.
(Pardon my Spanglish.)

Big money is involved in battle over building defects
Constructive dialogue? By Dennis Myers
Reno News & Review / 4-4-2013

Barbano vs. vindictive lawmakers: Cutting prevailing wages won't stimulate economy
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13

Nevada’s privileged mining industry battles the future with ‘campaign contributions’
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13


IN THE BLACK AND COMMITTING BLACKMAIL—>TV station boss and former university chancellor Jim Rogers won't cave to mining industry after advertising cancellation
Las Vegas Sun / 3-2-13

ED Part XVIII—>Petition pondering & pandering: Just Say No, a Nevada tradition
Do the Nancy Reagan thing
Just say no to the teachers' tax petition and invalidate term limits and right-to-work-for-less in the process. What's not to like?
Barbwire by Barbano / Special Online Abstinence Edition / 3-5-2013

An edited and updated version appeared in the 3-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

ED Part XVII —>
The brutal law of unintended consequences
Between the devil and the deep Joe Neal

Long-lost research may invalidate more than 100 longstanding Nevada laws
IRONY ALERT—>
New higher electoral standard for teachers' tax petition may generate more support
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part XVI
Reno GOP Senator introduces bill to shoot schools in fiscal foot

Where is gun control when we need it?
Can you stimulate the economy by cutting wages?

U-News e-Bulletin by Andrew Barbano / 2-26-2013

We Don't Need No Education Part XIV
Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men

Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Clinging to the ledge and paying for our sins
Governor pays back Nevada health insurance monopoly/major campaign contributor
Barbwire by Barbano /
Expanded from the 1-24-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Moonhowlers, smoking guns & warning labels
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-17-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Power politics & prescient predictions
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-10-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbano back on Sam Shad's statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV program

Wine, winners, whiners & white guys
Barbwire by Barbano  /
Expanded from the 1-3-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

NEWS ROUNDUP TABLE OF CONTENTS

Economy-Wages-Government

BREAKING NEWS AND THEN SOME —>

Clandestine construction cash: Laborers' Union handbillers take community's case to UNR students
Union wants student-moderated public forum

Assemblymember Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, 1954-2013

USA at crossroads: New Deal or new Confederacy?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-10-2013 Sparks Tribune
UPDATE—>Bill Moyers: Shutdown is simply secession by other means

NEW—>In such dire straits that it now merits its own sordid section
We Don't Need No Education: The Neverending Series

Nevada unemployed unable to file claims; benefits cut
State: Just wait or go lower-tech

Thousands may have overtime claims in suit against Las Vegas Cosmopolitan Hotel-Casino
Las Vegas Sun / Associated Press / 8-30-2013

Major union leaders blast Obamacare for hurting health plans
Labor starts to bail: Democratic health care plan support erodes
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-1-2013
Full text of letter to Reid and Pelosi

Workers & taxpayers protest Apple's lack of transparency
Schools pay the price of corporate welfare

Rosy the poll dancer's destructive seduction
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-20-2013 Sparks Tribune

Gov. Veto El Obtúse rides again: AB 218 scuttled

AB 218 to strengthen Nevada prevailing wage law passes both houses on party line votes

MAY 29: Sen. Harry Reid Keynotes Path to Citizenship Public Assembly
Little Flower Church / Kietzke and E. Plumb Ln. / Reno, NV

Details in the May 23 Barbwire>
Longing for the wisdom of the grateful dead
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-23-2013 Sparks Tribune

California's Prop 13 lies at the root of Nevada's fiscal collapse
Dennis Myers remembers the Tax Shaft of 1981
Reno News & Review / May 23, 2013

Public shut out of utility legislation, putting ratepayers at risk
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-23-2013
NevadaLabor.com Energy War Room

Star-stuck: Dirty deals for dirty movies
Ghostrider Nicolas Cage sticks it to Nevada school kids
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 5-16-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Mr. Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

National Workers Memorial Day of the Dead
You're not worth much dead or alive
Impose the death penalty on co
mpanies knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary
Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable.
Updated in the Barbwire of 11-7-2013

Gov. Sandoval's $3 million New York State of Mind
New Nevada ad campaign slips on a sideways banana

Barbwire by Barbano
Expanded from
the Sunday 4-21-2013 Reno Gazette-Journal

Portions of the above also appeared in the 4-10-2013 RGJ and
the 4-18-2013 Reno News & Review

We Don't Need No Education Part XVI —>School shootings: Reno GOP Senator introduces bill to shoot schools in fiscal foot
Where is gun control when we need it?
Can you stimulate the economy by cutting wages?

U-News e-Bulletin by Andrew Barbano / 2-26-2013 / Updated 4-16-2013

We Don't Need No Education Part XIV
Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men

Barbwire by Barbano
Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Clinging to the ledge and paying for our sins
Governor pays back Nevada health insurance monopoly/major campaign contributor
Barbwire by Barbano /
Expanded from the 1-24-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

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Hey buddy, can you spare a dime?
Barbwire wins second straight Nevada Press Association first-place award
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-20-2009

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
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

 

 



Health Care
"Washoe Med: This community has been snookered!"
—From a Reno Gazette-Journal guest editorial


DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN — Washoe Med (now Renown) nurses picket during a one-day strike on 6-23-2001. The issues were the same as during a 1990 organizing drive and remain today: Understaffing which erodes patient care so that the conglomerate may profit and proliferate on the backs of health care consumers and taxpayers.

BREAKING NEWS—>

RENO, Nev. (12-5-2013) — Former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital trustee Vivian Freeman died this morning at her home in Reno. She was 86 years old.

Freeman's distinguished career included Nevada's first mining reclamation law
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 12-12-2013

Registered nurses ratify new contract with St. Mary's
Reno News & Review / 10-17-2013

Another public relations coup for Nevada
Report: Every nursing home in Nevada cited by inspectors
Chronic understaffing in a very lucrative & growing industry

"Nevada is one of two states where every nursing home was cited with one or more deficiencies by state health inspectors, and one in three nursing homes was cited for a severe deficiency, meaning a resident suffered actual harm or was in imminent danger."
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 8-12-2013

Major union leaders blast Obamacare for hurting health plans
Labor starts to bail: Democratic health care plan support erodes
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-1-2013
Full text of letter to Reid and Pelosi

Death panels hard at work right here in River City
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-4-2013 Sparks Tribune

Guilty of Murder: Las Vegas hepatitis C murder cases archive

Defrocked California doc allowed to practice in Nevada
by Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-30-2013

National Workers Memorial Day of the Dead
You're not worth much dead or alive
Impose the death penalty on co
mpanies knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary
Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable.
Updated in the Barbwire of 11-7-2013

We Don't Need No Education Part XIV
Never trust gun runners, politicians or PR men

Barbwire by Barbano
Expanded from the 1-31-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

Clinging to the ledge and paying for our sins
Governor pays back Nevada health insurance monopoly/major campaign contributor
Barbwire by Barbano /
Expanded from the 1-24-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune

NEVADA'S CANCER KIDS: New lawsuit claims Fallon cancer cluster isn't over and leaking military jet fuel pipeline is cause

NevadaLabor.com Exclusive
First time online:
Washoe County Grand Jury Report detailing the scandals and skullduggery which resulted in the theft of Reno's public hospital

Current Health Care News

Hey buddy, can you spare a dime?
Barbwire wins second straight Nevada Press Association first-place award
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-20-2009

Safety on the Job

We don't care. We don't have to: Jerrit Canyon Nevada gold mine cited for 61 safety violations
AP / Las Vegas Sun 1-31-2014

National Workers Memorial Day of the Dead
You're not worth much dead or alive
Impose the death penalty on co
mpanies knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED 5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary
Updated in the Barbwire of 11-7-2013

Please be careful out there



Wear safety on your sleeve and in your mind.

BREAKING NEWS
AND THEN SOME —>

We don't care. We don't have to: Jerrit Canyon Nevada gold mine cited for 61 safety violations
AP / Las Vegas Sun 1-31-2014

They don't do anything until somebody dies
UNR & downtown Reno theater firetraps mean little was learned from Vegas Hilton & MGM disasters
Remembering Sen. Neal's landmark high-rise fire sprinkler law
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 12-12-2013 Sparks Tribune

Remembering another local school murder
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-14-2013 Sparks Tribune
UPDATES: Peggy Pierce memorial service and I-80 road construction deaths

Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable
Updates on two Laborers' Local 169 members killed and two injured on I-80
Worker dies trimming trees at MGM's Mirage on Las Vegas Strip

The bloody guns of October fire on November
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-7-2013 Sparks Tribune

OSHA: Dead NVE worker's life worth only a $43,000 fine
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 3-26-2013

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program

NEVADA'S CANCER KIDS: New lawsuit claims Fallon cancer cluster isn't over and leaking fuel pipeline is cause
Superintendent refuses transfers from suspect school

Failing Nevada's workers
Governor vetoes bills that would have made safety a greater priority

Las Vegas Sun editorial / 6-7-2011

Las Vegas Strip construction death scandal investigation validated
Twenty-five months after CityCenter construction workers walked off the job to protest workplace fatalities and safety conditions there, researchers have confirmed what the Sun reported at the time.
Las Vegas Sun follows up Pulitzer Prize-winning series / 7-6-2010

OSHA in Las Vegas probing fatal construction accident at I-15 interchange
Second fatal crash in five days — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating a fatal construction accident in the south Las Vegas Valley. The Nevada Highway Patrol responded at 6:26 a.m. to the accident at the Blue Diamond Road and Interstate 15 interchange, but OSHA has since taken over the investigation. (Road construction zone safety archive)

Las Vegas Sun wins Pulitzer Prize for ongoing series about construction worker deaths on Las Vegas strip
Las Vegas Sun / 4-21-2009 / MORE

CONTINUING NEWS ROUNDUP: LV STRIP Construction Deaths
Las Vegas has always flourished through growth. But never before has booming construction on the Strip taken such a toll in lives. Construction deaths over the past 16 months exceed the total reported for the entire 1990s building boom. National safety experts are alarmed. They say contractors are taking too many shortcuts and Nevada agencies are lax in oversight. Workers say they feel unsafe on rushed and crowded construction sites....

Cabbies: The Most Dangerous Job in Nevada
How many more have to die
before in-car video is mandated?


Current Safety on the Job News
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Hey buddy, can you spare a dime?
Barbwire wins second straight Nevada Press Association first-place award
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-20-2009

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

 


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Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-13-2013

Long overdue compensation: USDOL seeks test site workers
Reno News & Review / 7-21-2011

Nuking Nevada
How Congress started a holy war by elevating dumpsite politics over science

Reno News & Review / 7-21-2011

Dr. Strangelove and Sen. Don the Dumberer
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Remembering another local school murder
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-14-2013 Sparks Tribune
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Death on the job: Nevada workers remain cheap and disposable
Updates on two Laborers' Local 169 members killed and two injured on I-80
Worker dies trimming trees at MGM's Mirage on Las Vegas Strip

The bloody guns of October fire on November
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-7-2013 Sparks Tribune

Prayer vigil for Sparks Middle School shooting victims

Reno City Council rolls over for Waste Management—>again
Barbano: Workers, ratepayers, taxpayers & competitors all harmed, as usual

Two monopolies for the price of one
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 9-5-2013

Barbano back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program

Triangle Shirtwaist inferno redux a century later
Bangladesh killer inferno was Wal-Mart sweatshop
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post / November 28, 2012

3-25-1911: New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146, including 132 girls

FRESHLY UPDATED —> TWO RENO WAL-MART BLACK FRIDAY DEMONSTRATIONS NOV. 23

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John F. Kennedy's 2013 inaugural address
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-22-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune


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