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RSVP: Dina Neal

The simple song of greatness
Longtime Nevada labor leader Danny Coyle dies
Carson City Democratic activist and teacher Pat Potter terminally ill
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from the 7-18-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn dies 7-22-2010

The twisted ethics of sports, politics & rock 'n' roll
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-11-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Interdependence Day 2010:
Red, white and screwed
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-4-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Take my daughter, please:
City hall hicks are still easy to con
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-27-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Translating the politically inscrutable
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-20-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Sexy follytix 2010: Reality vs. Superficiality
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-13-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Drill baby drill for jobs, maybe, jobs
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-6-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

From clear-cut forests to dirty Gulfstream waters, this land belongs to old BP
TOLJASO LONG TIME AGO
BP/ARCO: The greasy root of our evils
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune 9-10-2006
The awful truth — Read it and weep, fellow suckers

Trying to brighten the unelightened
A little hate mail on Memorial Day weekend
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-30-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Gov. Raggio: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-25-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

César Chávez, Thurgood Marshall & Thomas Jefferson
Submit your nominations for the César Chávez Silver State Public Service Awards
Enter your video (for cash and/or prizes) in the public service announcement competition
Event will benefit Sierra Nevada Community Access Television
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-21-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Union men run for office in Reno-Sparks

Clinging to the Ledge
Ledge X:
The Deer-in-the-Headlights Legislative Session
Suing for Schools rerun schedule begins
Expanded from the 2-28-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

SUNDAY FEB. 21, 2010 — LIVE REGIONAL TV+webcast 6:00 p.m. PST
Rerun at 9:00 p.m. PST
SUING FOR SCHOOLS: The case for making Nevada finally obey her constitutional mandate to provide for public education
Can we do any worse with a judge running the system?
Interview: Sen. Harry Reid kicks Gov. Jim the Dim

Michigan keeps PEG stations for basic cable customers where Nevada failed
Barbwire by Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune / 2-14-2010

Many more direct hits fresh off the Barbwire

Déjà vu all over again and again and again
Barack Obama: A bit too much of Clarence Thomas?
Al Qaeda uses U.S. Predator drone video surveillance:
Been there, done that story — in 1991
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-20-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune

Running red in a frozen economy
Sparks and Reno face huge fines for labor law violations
Cancerexia: Ralph Lauren boycott widens
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-13-2009

Health care in prime time, ready or not
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune /12-6-2009
Click here to view the Dec. 6 show on your computer
If Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs and Unions LIVE TV Dec. 6, 2009
Available to every TV set in N/E California and N/W Nevada
Note: The following live telecast link is now disabled. See above to view the show on your desktop.
Click here to see the show live on your computer
NOTE: The above webstreaming link will not be hot until 5:30 p.m. PST / 01:30 ZULU/GMT,
a half-hour before showtime on Dec. 6, 2009.
Catch the CW network re-run, 9:00 p.m. PST/05:00 ZULU/GMT

Turn on, tune in and tell a friend
If Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs and Unions
LIVE TV Dec. 6, 2009
Barbwire by Barbano/ Expanded from Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-29-2009
Give 'em health Harry, part deux
Barbwire by Barbano/ Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-22-2009

President Barack Hussein Obama
Great inaugural moments

Rory, Rory Hallelujah?
Barbwire by Barbano/ Daily Sparks Tribune / 10-18-2009

Dingbat voters in the belfry of follytix
Expanded from the 5-3-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune

UPDATE: Thursday, 5 Feb. 2009, 12:00 PST, 08:00 GMT/ZULU/SUT/CUT
U.S. State Department muzzles visiting journalists from Kyrgyzstan

Chainsaw massacre in Carson City
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-7-2008

CWA WINS 4-1 AT ST. MARY'S-RENO
NevadaLabor.com Exclusive
Thursday, 4 Dec 2008, 12:24 p.m. PST, 20:24 ZULU/GMT/SUT/CUT

Tony the Tiger and the flaky NFL
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-30-2008

Not even 30 pieces of silver
Reno City Council Signs Community TV Death Warrant
Contact Sen. Harry Reid for help
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-23-2008

Rise of the Machines
Rise in protest to save community television
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 11-16-2008

So sue us: Charter tells Sen. Reid and Reno
11-14-2008

The devil and the deep blue sea
Charter cable deal and Reno "settlement" offers are all death warrants for community television.
Court battle looms closer.
Sparks Tribune / 11-11-2008 + Barbwire special web edition, 11-12-2008

Back to work
Reno City Council reviews defective, deflective Charter cable settlement as FCC investigation opens
+ The Cycles of History revolve again
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune / 11-9-2008

Margins of error
Obama takes Nevada black vote for granted
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune 11-2-2008

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channels 16 & 216
2:00-4:00 p.m. PST, 22:00-24:00 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT

What may well be the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

Text of Barack Obama's 10-25-2008 address at the University of Nevada-Reno

Cleansing the soap opera of Follytix 2008
Judge in the Sludge + More Charter Cable Trudge
New 2008 Michael Moore film rebroacast schedule on Reno TV
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 10-19-2008

Drag queens for change
Nugget makes workers an offer they can't refuse
Charter cable on the financial skids as AT&T enters the market
Shoddy Sequoia voting machines play into Karl Rove's hands
Expanded from the 10-12-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

The good, the bad and the ugly
Illegal voting machines and killer vaccines
Michigan judge's ruling will affect Nevada cable ratepayers
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune 10-5-2008

WW4
October surprise: Bush planning to bomb Iran soon
Major media ignore the story
Daily Sparks Tribune / Barbwire 9-7-2008

The south has risen again
Racism means never having to say you're sorry
Daily Sparks Tribune / Barbwire 9-14-2008

Sen. Obama, meet Mr. Durocher
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 8-31-2008
Plus: The long lost labor films Ronald Reagan tried to destroy

Obama picks Biden for VP

Charter cable attempts to kill community TV stations

Charter negotiates Russian-style: Will accept 100% of everything
Daily Sparks Tribune 9-5-2008 / Barbwire Update 9-7-2008

Reno-Sparks NAACP opposes Charter channel switch

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., ready to join legal action against Charter Cable

Fight Back!

WE WIN ROUND ONE — As the Barbwire show scooped the state on Friday, Aug. 22: Charter has caved in and postponed the execution date for 90 days. Thanks for bringing the heat. See the Barbwire in the Sunday Sparks Tribune for all the inside baseball. Be well. Raise hell. AB

SPARKS, WASHOE, CARSON AND DOUGLAS CABLE CUSTOMERS URGED TO CONTACT LOCAL OFFICIALS
ReSurge.TV may broaden legal action to include ratepayers and program producers outside of Reno
8-25-2008, Updated 8-28-2008

The evil empire eats its appetite
Community television wins a 90-day stay of execution
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 8-24-2008

Reno city council votes unanimously to sue Charter Communications to keep community TV accessible
Resurge.TV will also file

The people were heard on Aug. 14. Call, write or show up at Reno City Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 20

Bandwidth bandidos admit to their greed
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-17-2008

The people vs. Charter's pirate ship
Time to sue the bastards
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-10-2008

Donate to the cable ratepayer legal defense fund at ReSurge.TV

Deregulation is never having to say you're sorry
Bad news for cable subscribers, good news for Hug High School
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-3-2008

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channels 16 & 216
2:00-4:00 p.m. PDT, 21:00-23:00 GMT/CUT/SUT

What may well be the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

Breaking News:
Obama picks Biden for v.p. according to AP and CNN

A PROUD LABOR MAN ADDRESSES NEVADA LABOR — Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., addresses the Nevada State AFL-CIO convention at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno on August 21, 2007.

Sen. Obama, meet Mr. Durocher
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 8-31-2008

Biden was the Barbwire's third choice for president

Reno-Sparks NAACP advocates rising above the Biden/Obama dustup

Skinny dipping with the devil
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 7-20-2008
UPDATE: Angle spurns offer to debate Raggio on Nevada Newsmakers
Barbwire calls her bluff 8-7-2008

Ringers & zingers go down in flames
The end of a pseudo-Democrat's new political career

REALITY BITES — McCain bitten while biting wallets in Beantown

BOSTON (June 11, 2008) — Well we almost made the national news. This picture was taken on the side of John McCain's bus. The bus says "Straight Talk Express" (what a load of crap!). The Secret Service let us get this close. He was in Boston for a fundraiser Wednesday evening, the good looking guy third from the right is me. So now you can put a hunk face to the emails. So now go out and vote for our favorite fellow Sicilian, Obama. (Photo and caption courtesy of the editor of this website's fellow Siciliano, union brother Al Capozzi, who still wanders the wildes of merry auld New England. Be well. Raise hell. — Andrew.)

IT'S ALL TRUE — The bible on gasoline price fixing: Barbwire Oilogopoly Archive.

Monopolists and mass malpractice
Gasoline price fixing and greasing pols to exploit the sick
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 4-13-2008

ANOTHER WORLDWIDE PUBLIC RELATIONS COUP
FOR NEVADA
Tens of thousands statewide in jeopardy as Nevada health care provider inspection system collapses
Clinics close, nurses surrender licenses

LONGTIME RURAL NEVADA CONUNDRUM: Imported doctors abused and small county patients suffer

Does your race predict your health care? New mini-series says yes

NevadaLabor.com exclusive
New Paycheck Deception Initiatives Filed
Nevada union busters re-start a fight they lost in 1998

Republican immigration plank plunked into Washoe Democratic platform.
Employer and employee sanctions spark opposition.

STRIKE LOOMS CLOSER — Culinary Union files for injunction against Reno Grand Sierra.

NEW Barbwire.TV
Launch of Barbwire cable/web trimulcast postponed
MORE: Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 2-10-2008

BARBWIRE: The disappointment tango
Ditchdiggers and the danse macabre
NBC orders affiliates off the air to dump Kucinich from debate

Clinton and Romney win their respective party presidential caucuses in Nevada

Full Frontal Hillary
Sen. Clinton was absolutely correct that it took a president to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The attacks against her are based on historical revisionism. MORE

BARBWIRE: The crying game
The peacock network flips Kucinich the bird
BREAKING NEWS 1-14-2008: SPARROW DEVOURS GE's BUZZARD
Judge orders Dennis Kucinich included in Jan. 15 Las Vegas NBC presidential debate

Nevada culinary workers and bartenders unions endorse Obama

Nevada teachers union sues Democrats to help Hillary
Special "at large precincts" for on-duty hotel workers challenged
New York Times 1-13-2008 (Free registration may be required.)

Statewide Nevada Communications Workers Union endorses Edwards

Tim Russert: Nevada culinary union being pressured to back off from presidential endorsement

Using totally unscientific and archaic campaign superstition,
Full Frontal Hillary.com accurately predicted Sen. Clinton's Iowa loss

Rep. Dennis Kucinich and three others locked out of ABC News New Hampshire debates

"I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat." — Will Rogers

RARE BIRD OVER RENO

ORGANIZED DEMOCRATS — not an oxymoron anymore. The above photo was taken from the aircraft towing a banner over the Truckee Meadows promoting participation in the Jan. 19 Democratic presidential caucus. That the event may be the last prayer for some campaigns is evidenced by the church fortuitously positioned under the banner. Good luck.

IMPORTANT, dammit!
A pre-Iowa Caucus message from Michael Moore
Mike's Iowa post-mortem

GOOD NEWS FOR EDWARDS FROM IOWA

RENO (Nov. 18, 2007) — Presidential candidate John Edwards autographs a sign for United Auto Workers Union Local 2142/AFL-CIO retiree and boxing aficionado George Nelson after the former North Carolina senator addressed a large crowd at Hug High School. In the background wearing an "I'm a health care voter" patch stands UAW member and Reno-Sparks NAACP 2nd Vice-President Larry Wilson. (Rudy Viola/UAW 2142 photo)

EXCLUSIVE!
BALLOTBOXING.US SPY AT THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO:
Undecideds will probably break for Edwards on Iowa Caucus night.

BARBWIRE: Blasts from the past
1-6-2008

BARBWIRE: Time to launch
12-30-2007

Las Vegas Review-Journal Poll: Hillary has huge lead in Nevada

UNDERBRUSH
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL: In-depth poll shows Gov. Gibbons @ 29%, Bush @ 34% in Nevada.
Hillary and Rudy would win presidential primaries today. Nevadans pessimistic about direction of state. Heavy stuff.
TOLJASO ABOUT JIM THE DIM. CAN YOU SAY ONE-TERMER?

Reno-Sparks NAACP advocates rising above the Biden/Obama dustup

The following was hand-delivered to Sen. Biden in Carson City, Nev., on 2-20-2007

Reno-Sparks NAACP Branch No. 1112
P.O. Box 7757
Reno, NV 89510
(775) 322-2992
Fax (775) 322-9909

Feb. 19, 2007

The Hon. Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
United States Senate
201 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Sen. Biden:

The Reno-Sparks NAACP welcomes your presidential campaign to Nevada. Enclosed, you will find a letter which is being distributed to newspapers statewide.

We look forward to learning more about you, Sen. Obama and the rest of the candidates as the 2008 election season gets underway.

Sincerely,

Lucille Adin, President
NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112

Andrew Barbano, Chair
Political Action Committee

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Feb. 19, 2007

Editor:

At a recent meeting of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, the membership voted to write to Nevada newspapers regarding the media-fueled controversy generated by remarks which Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del, made about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Sen. Biden’s complimentary statements were somehow twisted into some sort of a "read between the lines" criticism. We view all of this as distracting, unfortunate and uncalled for.

No fair reading of Sen. Biden’s statement can be interpreted as degrading Sen. Obama.

The candidates for president have work too important to get sidetracked by word games.

Sen. Obama himself said "I’m not going to parse his words that carefully."

War and peace and prosperity affect people’s daily lives. Policies matter.

The pundits and the press would serve us best by focusing on the legitimate national debate.

Sincerely,

Lucille Adin, President
Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112

Reprint and redistribution of the NAACP material granted. Please notify the editor.

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL FORUM: War prompts discourse
CARSON CITY — Nevada provided the backdrop for the kickoff of the 2008 presidential campaign season Wednesday as eight Democrats seeking their party's nomination participated in a nationally broadcast forum.
What the candidates said

Candidates in Carson City bash Bush and bloodshed

LVRJ Columnist Erin Neff: The battle is joined
"Candidates who are really in it to win don't mind getting nasty. And they did it here first."

Sen. Clinton courts teachers' votes in Gomorrah South
School visit includes barbs at No Child Left Behind Act