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Rough
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"If
voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." — Travus
T. Hipp, 1982
State
Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, brings his new congressional campaign to
northern Nevada
Princess
Cassandra's neverending labor
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-4-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
If
you can't win, be spectacular
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-28-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Miners
don't even kiss us afterward
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife / 8-25-2011
Suicide
via Laborcide in Carolina
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-21-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Bullshots
and bum watches
Will
Nevada unions picket their own convention?
Culinary
226 cuts new deal in the face of Grand Sierra Reno's wholesale outsourcing
Huge Tonopah solar
array project Nevada's newest corporate welfare queen
Residents opposing Comstock pit mine schedule events
Seniors group endorses Democrat Kate Marshall in 9-13-2011 Nevada special
election
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-14-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Bullfighting
in Tonopah, Part Deux
Latest survival bulletins from the High Desert Plantation
Washoe County D.A. defends his instant plea bargain
program
Barbwire by Barbano special web edition 8-11-2011
Substantially
updated and expanded from the 8-7-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
UFW
leader Richard Chávez,
brother of César Chávez, dies at 81
Los
Angeles Times / 7-28-2011
Unions
protest FAA shutdown at Rep. Joe Heck's Las Vegas office
Lord
Rupert's Rupture & President Tiger Wuss
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-24-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
President
Kevorkian and Harry Potter's Congress
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-17-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Dr.
Strangelove and Sen. Don the Dumberer
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Daily Sparks Tribune 7-10-2011
Nevada
Supreme Court upholds Republican plan for party-controlled special house
election
A
precedent of sorts for
The contested one-vote North Las Vegas City Council election
Update:
Single-vote loser seeks recount / Las Vegas Sun 7-19-2011
In the 1980 Republican
primary for the southwest Reno Assembly District 25 seat, Patty
Cafferata defeated Bob Kerns by one vote. (Sue Wagner,
the incumbent, had vacated to run for state senate.)
Kerns did not ask for a recount but took the matter immediately
to court, citing the short time frame between the Sept. 9 primary
and Nov. 4 general.
The case was assigned to Washoe Dist. Judge John Barrett.
Kerns brought forward a woman, a registered Democrat, who was given
a Republican ballot by mistake. She testified that she had voted
for Mrs. Cafferata.
Judge Barrett would not throw out the election, adding that he hoped
whoever won the seat would address the gap in state election law
where such an issue was concerned.
I don't know that it was and, given the confusion over the recent
North Las Vegas city council election, it has not.
Barrett's point was that no matter how she testified how she voted,
there was no way to corroborate that assertion and he could thus
not vacate the result or wipe out one vote for Cafferata and call
it a tie.
Cafferata went on to win the general election in the heavily Republican
district. Kerns won the seat in 1982 when Cafferata ran for state
treasurer.
If the law has not been changed since the Kerns-Cafferata mess,
then the Barrett decision, while not having been appealed and thus
not a precedent, may provide some guidance in the current debate.
Be well. Raise hell.
Andrew
Barbano
6-14-2011
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What
may well have been the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast
webchat
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July
4 Railroad Jobs: We're Red, White and Screwed
PLEADING
POVERTY: Washoe County Commission tries to up D.A.'s quickie conviction
rate
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-3-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Nevada
government's license to kill
A
funeral dirge for the disposable worker
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 6-5-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Déjà
vu, dustbusters and living legacies
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-29-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
The
perils of playing the other guy's game
Obama
botches gasoline price issue in Reno speech
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-24-2011 Daily
Sparks Tribune
You
can't run from the awful truth
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-17-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
No
more Mr. Nice Guy
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-10-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
MLK
43 National Unity Rally
Workers
and students rally Monday, April 4, at Western Nevada College in Carson City
and College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas
43rd anniversary of the assassination
of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A
walk with the giants
The
César Chávez Nevada Labor Hall of Fame Awards
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-3-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
César
Chávez
Day in Nevada
EL
DÍA DE CÉSAR CHÁVEZ
¡Sí
se puede!
Be well. Raise hell.
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The
César
Chávez Long March
by Reno artist Erik Holland
Mr. Holland will
be selling cards and prints at the March
31, 2011, César Chávez celebration at Circus Circus in
Reno. The original watercolor is currently displayed at the Nevada
Legislature in the office of Sen. Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas.
Copyright
© 2009 Erik Holland. All rights reserved.
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UNR
students
honor César Chávez
César
Chávez, Dr. King and the kids are alright
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-27-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Reagan
Ranch, hall of famers and protest fatigue
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-20-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
It
ain't broke, but we'll fix it
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-13-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Charlie
Sheen and the Price of Gasoline
ENERGY,
PART DEUX: PUC sides with electrical workers, orders NV Energy
staffing investigation
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-6-2011 Daily
Sparks Tribune
Last
chance to save your old SNCAT TV shows and help Reno-Sparks-Washoe community
radio-TV rise again
Cowboys
and Indians
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-27-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Too
old to work, too young to die
High
noon on President's Day: Nevadans
rally statewide to support Wisconsin workers
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-20-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATE: Great Minds Think Alike Dept. The stakes could
not be higher.
A
Valentine for Tura Satana —>Union Star
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-13-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
40
Years on the High Desert Plantation
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-6-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Barack
Brian Obama Sandoval Carter
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-30-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
SOS
Means Chicken Follytix
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-23-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Barbwire
Breaking News Exclusive
Still
Sierra
Pacific Powerful
No
matter whether they call it Reddi Kilowatt, Nevada Power or NV Energy, it's
just bright new branding for the same old monopoly rape and pillage —
the public knows it and the latest poll proves it
Time for another
initiative petition after 21 years?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-16-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune
Billy
Brawl: Raggio Resigns
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-9-2011
Daily Sparks Tribune
Updated 1-18-2011: Toljaso — Raggio's boy gets the
boss' job
Sunday
12-26, the last Barbwire of 2010:
Liberal
reasons to oppose liberal positions and policies
Guaranteed to irritate all points of the political
spectrum
Tea
Party reality
Poor
Denny's Almanac 12-16-2010: On this date in 1773,
Bostonians dressed as Native Americans threw tea into Boston bay to
protest tea taxes being too low and to demand that those taxes be
raised; in 1924, masked men invaded a Nashville, Tenn., hospital,
seized and lynched black teenager Samuel Smith; in 1966,
Eddie Scott was elected president of the Reno-Sparks NAACP; in
2005, The New York Times admitted that it does not publish
all the news that's fit to print. Copyright © 2010 Dennis
Myers. [Click
here for the full edition at NevadaLabor.com.]
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Forced
to play against a stacked deck
Barbwire
by Barbano/
Expanded from the
12-19-2010
Daily Sparks Tribune
Rebels,
heroes and mavericks are made, not born
Barbwire
by Barbano/
Expanded from the 12-12-2010
Daily Sparks Tribune
Why
Are Wars Not Being Reported Honestly?
by John Pilger / UK / AntiWar.com / 12-11-2010
Assemblymember
Peggy Pierce, D-Las Vegas, proposes Nevada tax on big business
Smoking
guns and suing for schools
Barbwire
by Barbano/ Expanded
from the 12-5-2010
Daily Sparks Tribune
All
I want for Christmas is a wet, warm GOP
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-28-2010
Daily Sparks Tribune
Postmortems,
creepy factotems & revolting developments
Barbwire
by Barbano /
Expanded
from the 11-7-2010
Daily Sparks Tribune
Your
vote is your voice / Su
voto es su voz
Our
Harry proved as magical as his legendary ancestors, Harry Houdini and Harry
Potter
It's
all over but the shouting, the
whining and the wining (hic!)
NBC/AP
report: 7 of 10 Nevada union members voted for Sen. Reid
Good
job!
Political
brass & unbreakable crystal balls
GOP sweep could spawn new Labor Party
NEW
Barbwire TV show on hope for jobs
Barbwire
by Barbano /Expanded
from the 10-24-2010
Daily Sparks Tribune
