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"If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." — Travus T. Hipp, 1982
HAPPY NEW YEAR/Feliz Año Nuevo
Hope
you and yours enjoyed 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
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 mean little was learned from the Las
Vegas Hilton & MGM disasters
Remembering Sen.
Joe 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,
10 Dec. 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, 2013: State Senate Majority leader Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, headlines Reno informational meeting regarding Driver’s Authorization Cards / Nov. 23: FOUR Immigration Reform marches in RenoImmigration Shifts Political Power
AP-Las Vegas Sun / 11-20-2013POOR DENNY'S ALMANAC 11-21-2013 — On this date in 2004, Ray Hagar and Sandi Wright reported in the Reno Gazette-Journal that local schools attended by low income students tended to be the most poorly maintained schools.
THE BARBWIRE RESPONDS: So what else is new? Over the decades, the RGJ has done a sterling job investigating separate but unequal health care and education. Alas and alack, nothing much ever changes on the High Desert Plantation. For a quick sad summary, see the Barbwire of April 2, 2006 (updated periodically). See also We Don't Need No Education, the continuing series.
10-30-2013: Sam & TRPA boss + Barbwire Man vs. the Moonhowlers
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
Reno memorial service announced for Nov. 16
USA
at crossroads:
New Deal or new
Confederacy?
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
10-10-2013 Sparks Tribune
Low-income
penalty: Nevada socks it to the working poor
BARBANO:
Nevada is one big company town
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 10-10-2013
State
of Health
National health care comes up against a very sick state. WHAT'S IN IT FOR
US?
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 10-10-2013
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
We
Don't Need No Education Part XXV—>
How
to play pro ball and be cruel to your school
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
9-19-2013 Sparks Tribune
Reno
rally marks 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
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
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
8-12-2013:
Long-ago predictions of softshoe fascism sadly come true
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
We
don't need no education: The neverending series
Daily
Sparks (NV) Tribune, Reno News & Review, Las Vegas Review-Journal and
The Charlotte (NC) Observer / 2012-2013
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
9-6-2012:
Federal appellate judges put None of the Above back on the November
ballot. Alleluia!
UPDATED
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
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
D-DAY DEFEAT FOR WORKERS' WAGES / 6-6-2013 — Gov. 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
The
2013 looney tunes legislative lexicon
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-30-2013 Sparks Tribune /
Updated 6-1-2013
Defrocked
California doc allowed to practice in Nevada
by
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 5-30-2013
We
don't need no education: The neverending series
Daily
Sparks (NV) Tribune, Reno News & Review, Las Vegas Review-Journal and
The Charlotte (NC) Observer / 2012-2013
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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
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.)
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 companies
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
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 / Daily Sparks
Tribune 3-21-2013
César
Chávez Celebration XI
Join
us again on Thursday/March 28, 2013
Jueves,
28 de Marzo, 2013 / Circus Circus - Reno
Nevada Gov. Sandoval declines invitation for third
year in a row
El
Gobernador de Nevada, Brian Sandoval,
declinó la invitación por el tercer año consecutivo.
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
Papa
Francisco Primero: ¡Viva La Revolución!
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
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