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HISTORY IN THE MAKING
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak will deliver the keynote address at César Chávez Celebration XVII 3-27-2019

Judge not lest ye be judged — or misjudged
Nevada Attorney General & Chief Justice Charles Springer, 1928-2019
Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 3-6-2019 Sparks Tribune

Happy High Holly Days to all
Merry Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah
Hope you and yours enjoyed enthralling Thanksgibleting.
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz Año Nuevo
Frohe Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2019

So this is Christmas: May we get what we deserve
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 12-19-2018 Sparks Tribune

Melvin and Howard: The untold reality show
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 12-12-2018 Sparks Tribune

A Christmas fantasy for freedom-loving racists
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 12-5-2018 Sparks Tribune

November 30 —> St. Andrew's Day. Alleluia!

A pledge of allegiance for our empire's children
The above was published before the death of President George HW Bush. His record survives him.
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-28-2018 Sparks Tribune

Requiescat in pace
John F. Kennedy
May 29, 1917 — November 22, 1963

C.S. Lewis: November 29, 1898 — November 22, 1963
Aldous Huxley: July 26, 1894 — November 22, 1963

144 years ago on Thanksgiving weekend
Barbed wire was patented (11-24-1874), ensuring full employment for doctors and lawyers in perpetuity.
On 18 Jan. 1813, Joseph Glidden, inventor of barbed wire, was born.
The west was never the same. Likewise here.
Stick with The Barbwire to sharply point out the awful truth. Always here.
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LATEST Barbwires

The 9th Muse 2018
Barbwire wins 9th Nevada Press Association award (6th Gold)
Next year, we go for Hat Trick 2

50 shades of rape: Tales of future past
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-3-2018 Sparks Tribune

From Barbwire Confidential
9:14 p.m. PDT 9-26-2018 / 04:14 GMT 9-27-2018 — MY WILDEST DREAM: Tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. PDT, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford walks into the U.S. Senate crucifixion star chamber flanked by her new legal team — lawyers Anita Hill and Barack Obama. (Can we also get Gerry Spence out of retirement?)
Alas, love's labours lost.

Blacks honor whites with a dash of electric pink
In search of a pink Cadillac to honor Aretha
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 9-26-2018 Sparks Tribune

NATURAL WOMAN: QUEEN OF SOUL ARETHA FRANKLIN DIES AT 76
DETROIT (8-16-2018) — Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul who stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from advanced pancreatic cancer. Several years ago, Rolling Stone named her the greatest rock singer of all time, ahead of Ray Charles and Elvis Presley. Music rises as tears fall around the world. May she continue to make a joyful noise unto the Lord into eternity.
ALMANAC: On August 16, 1977, Elvis died. On August 16, 2018, Aretha died.

Fake boobs and fake news: Guts, feathers and all
Another public relations coup for Nevada: Teslacide
 In The Guardian/London & worldwide, Barbano and Nevada conservatives decry corporate welfare depredations
Menlo Park and Reno-Sparks-Fernley share similarly sad high-tech stretch marks
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 7-4-2018 Sparks Tribune

Beer & music and rendering unto Caesar
Barbwire by Andrea Luigi Barbáno / Expanded from the 5-16-2018 Sparks Tribune

Just when you thought there was no good news
Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 4-25-2018 Sparks Tribune

Flying machines in pieces on the ground, part deux
Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 4-18-2018 Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXVIII—>
Flying machines in pieces on the ground
Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 4-11-2018 Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXVII—>
Marked for life for making a phone call
Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Expanded from the 4-4-2018 Sparks Tribune

What's harder: Finding a doctor or Stormy Daniels?
Sucking up money: The ever-expanding tentacles of the voracious Renown medical octopus
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 3-21-2018 Sparks Tribune

Lousy lawyering for pun and prophet
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 2-28-2018 Sparks Tribune
LATEST Barbwires

Happy High Holly Days to all
Merry Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah
Hope you and yours enjoyed enthralling Thanksgibleting.
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz Año Nuevo
Frohe Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2018

11-24-2017— 143 years ago on Thanksgiving weekend,
Barbed wire was patented (11-24-1874), ensuring full employment for doctors and lawyers in perpetuity.
On 18 Jan. 1813, Joseph Glidden, inventor of barbed wire, was born.
The west was never the same. Likewise here.
Stick with The Barbwire to sharply point out the awful truth. Always here.
Get ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
For all the news you never knew you needed to know 'til now—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

Las Vegas 2017

Fire is the devil's only friend
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-4-2017 Sparks Tribune

The 9th Muse 2018
Barbwire wins 9th Nevada Press Association award (6th Gold)
Next year, we go for Hat Trick 2

 

8 the hard way!

BARBWIRE SCORES 8TH NEVADA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARD

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BREAKING NEWS AND THEN SOME—>
Latest Klannish Nevada racism reports

We Don't Need No Education Part LXXVIII—>
You've got to be taught to learn to hate
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-18-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 10-19-2017 GMT

Nevada students denied diplomas over failed exams get shot at redemption
By Meghin Delaney / Las Vegas Review-Journal 10-20-2017

Window of opportunity: 48 hours for human rights
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-11-2017 Sparks Tribune


Labor's stake in the fight for veterans' health care
By Suzanne Gordon and Ian Hoffmann / Labor Notes 10-12-2017
Ian Hoffman is with AFGE 2152 representing workers at Reno's Ioannis A. Lougaris Veterans Medical Center

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., opposes GOP health care bill
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 6-23-2017
Editor's Note: Sen. Heller later supported the last of the repeal attempts which also failed.

Rx for Rape and Pillage

SMOKING GUN —> The big picture ain't pretty. DC GOP lawmakers are trying to bludgeon thru Obamacare "repeal" because the budget cuts therein will substantially reduce projected deficits. Without those projections in law, under current revenue-neutral rules, they will not be able to pass their tax cuts for the corporately wealthy. No less than conservative Reason Magazine Editor Peter Suderman said that on the June 19 2017 PBS/Bloomberg Charlie Rose TV program. As Lily Tomlin once opined, no matter how cynical you become, it's hard to keep up.

The game's afoot. So use a foot to kick some ass.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.

Andrew

One for the books under the bus
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 6-20-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 6-21-2017

Condemned at Birth
The diabetes establishment inhibits research on a very promising diabetes CURE
"Tell us how it will make ever make us money."
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 6-13-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 6-14 and 6-20-2017

Death Panels, Part Deux
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-14-2017 Sparks Tribune

Positively negative
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-7-2017 Sparks Tribune/ Updated 3-9 and 3-12-2017

Las Vegas judge banned from bench after handcuffing public defender
Las Vegas Review-Journal 3-1-2017

Equal Rights Betrayal
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 3-1, 3-3, 3-6 and 3-8-2017

Kate Smith & Lady Gaga
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-14-2017 Sparks Tribune

The Gorsuch Nonesuch: Poison Annie's Revenge
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-7-2017 Sparks Tribune

On Nov. 23, 2014, after revelations by The Barbwire/Sparks Tribune, the Reno News & Review and the Reno-Sparks NAACP, Assemblymember Ira-Hansen, R-Sparks, resigned as speaker-designate of the Nevada State Assembly.

 

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Thank you for NOT voting
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All the news you never knew you needed to know 'til now

Endangered Species Dept.
Happy Birthday anyway, Medicare

From longtime Nevada reporter Dennis Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac: On July 30, 1965, after defeating the bitter opposition of the American Medical Association in one of the monumental legislative battles of the 20th century, Medicare was created by Congress.

8 the hard way!
BARBWIRE SCORES 8TH NEVADA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARD

 

President Donald Trump as Andrew Jackson? So opined a plethora of prestigious, highly-paid expert pundits on election night. The Barbwire warned of exactly that last March. Twice.
And that ain't all. Read 'em and weep, pilgrims.

Nobody knows nothin'
By David Horsey, Staff Cartoonist / Los Angeles Times 11-9-2016
BARBWIRE SEZ the awesome Mr. Horsey's assertion that only the LAT/USC poll was accurate ain't necessarily so.

Those with crystal balls shouldn't throw stones
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-15-2016 Sparks Tribune

Remembering the first female U.S. presidents
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-8-2016 Sparks Tribune

"Any system of prolonged political paralysis and failed liberalism vomits up monsters. And the longer we remain in a state of political paralysis — especially as we stumble toward another financial collapse — the more certain it becomes that these monsters will take power." — Christopher Hedges at NationOfChange.org 17 Oct. 2016.

History foreshadows a GOP November win
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-16-2016 Sparks Tribune

All the more reason to subscribe to Barbwire Confidential.

Latest Barbwire by Barbano columns

Smoot, smut and stash
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-31-2017 Sparks Tribune

Patient Zero Plagues
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-17-2017 Sparks Tribune

Democrats in Margaritaville
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-10-2017 Sparks Tribune

Regressions, Transitions and Predictions
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-3-2017 Sparks Tribune

In Memoriam: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 5-29-1917/11-22-1963

Death wish: How the war on drugs turned into massive black disenfranchisement, electing regressives
"How the Democrats screwed over their most loyal supporters."
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 11-3-2016


Copyright © 2004-2017
Andrew Barbano

Child pawnography in the year of amorality
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-1-2016 Sparks Tribune

Downtown good ole boys never know when to quit
BREKHUS BREXIT: BAD MOON RISING OVER CITY HALL
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-25-2016 Sparks Tribune

Single-Payer Health Care Essential for America
Government allows unwarranted corporate profits from taxpayer-developed medicines
By Jake Highton / Sparks Tribune 10-25-2016

Environmental champion Marge Sill dies
Memorial service set for Dec. 2, 2016

Oakland Rapists: Softshoe fascism on steroids
Nevada adopts an official state religion: The NFL
Also: Bernie Sanders and Trump Jr. blow into Reno
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-18-2016 Sparks Tribune

Don't ask Renown for marijuana to help your chemo
Corporate welfare's bitter fruit: Union-busting, prevailing wage-violating Syufy burns Sparks City Hall again
Teamsters 533 CEO Debbie Calkins on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-4-2016 Sparks Tribune

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Most law enforcement officials at NAACP Tri-State Conference oppose gun show purchase background checks
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-20-2016 Sparks Tribune

William Patterson "Pat" Cashill, 1944-2016

Walk a mile in Colin Kaepernick's cleats
"In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."—Toni Morrison
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from the 8-30-2016 Sparks Tribune/Updated 8-31-2016

Democrats for Trump
Running Mate Exposed

Psychographic testing biases police application exams
By Patricia Gallimore and Andrew Barbano
RGJ.com 7-14-2016 / Reno Gazette-Journal 7-17-2016

Lerner the Heavy Hitter loses big in Louisiana
By Jane Ann Morrison / Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-13-2016

Top 10 cures for what ails us: Better late than never
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-12-2016 Sparks Tribune

Report: Rise in poverty threatens to further weaken Nevada education system
Ian Whitaker / Las Vegas Sun 7-7-2016

When public interest is secondary to public relations
Managing the spin of the war on drugs
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-5-2016 Sparks Tribune

FONDLY REMEMBERED —Eyes moistened as late-great Carson City District Judge Mike Fondi was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 14 June 2016 Nevada Justice Association 50th Anniversary Dinner.

Nevada utilities continually consume consumers
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-31-2016 Sparks Tribune

Be careful what you wish for: Justice is a game
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-10-2016 Sparks Tribune

It's OK, that's the way we've always done it, right?
Phony malpractice insurance crisis still haunts Nevada 12 years later
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-26-2016 Sparks Tribune

Fighting for human rights on César Chávez Day
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-29-2016 Sparks Tribune and Reno Gazette-Journal

True love, machine guns and My Sharrona
EPA opens investigation of toxic field turf, epidemic in Nevada
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-22-2016 Sparks Tribune

Community Teach-In for Gun Sense – Thursday March 3, 5:30 p.m., Bethel AME Church, 2655 Rock Blvd, Sparks NV / RSVP to Temple Sinai

TV or not TV — Oscar blackouts and PBS blacklists
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-1-2016 Sparks Tribune
Nevada workers strike megabucks Tesla battery plant
2-29-2016 / Updated 3-1-2016

Screw the courts and screw the dealers: Wynn continues to rip off tips
Las Vegas Review-Journal 2-24-2016

Thanks to all Nevada Caucusians

Nevada caucuses: Star-studded or star-crossed?
Interview with Titanic star Frances Fisher campaigning for Bernie in Nevada
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 2-23-2016 Sparks Tribune

History foreshadows a GOP November win
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 2-16-2016 Sparks Tribune

Psycho-spying the presidential pretenders
Psychological profiles of candidates and presidents
Previous analyses of Justice Clarence Thomas and President Obama proven correct
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 2-9-2016 Sparks Tribune

Donald Trump: from ivory tower to Hightower
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 2-2-2016 Sparks Tribune

If only Shakespeare had written the Constitution
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 1-26-2016 Sparks Tribune

Leading questions and lead-headed leaders
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 1-19-2016 Sparks Tribune

Michael Moore begs President Obama to visit the poisoned people of Flint, Michigan
Sign the petition!

Martin Luther King, Jr., weekend traditional event schedule

In Sparks, politics isn't personal, just business
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 1-12-2016 Sparks Tribune

If you can't trust Dear Abby, whom can you trust?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 1-5-2016 Sparks Tribune

Open season on law-breaking dangerous drones
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-29-2015 Sparks Tribune, Updated 12-30-2015

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

Hunka Hunka Bernie Love

Hope you and yours enjoyed Happy High Holly Days!
 Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah/Thanksgibleting

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show

Happy Thanksgibleting
Love and laughter to you and yours
Almanac for Thanksgiving weekend

Sorcerer's apprentices work cheap in Nevada
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-17-2015 Sparks Tribune

Weekend at Bernie's with Eugene McCarthy's grandchildren
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-10-2015 Sparks Tribune / Updated 11-12-2015

Last of the dinosaurs: Grease for corporate gears
Reno Gazette-Journal "retires" most experienced journalists
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-3-2015 Sparks Tribune / Updated 11-12-2015

Bigoted Reno Gazette-Journal column debunked
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 10-29-2015
Reno-Sparks NAACP responds

The Donald and The Church Lady run among us
Trump deigns to descend upon Sparks to dispense his wisdom and ubiquitous wonderfulness
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 10-27-2015 Sparks Tribune

Sen. Ruben Kihuen to emcee NAACP 70th Annual Freedom Fund Awards Dinner Oct. 24 at Circus Circus-Reno — Speakers & award winners announced

Barbano on 10-22 statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV

From holy of holies to lair of the moneychangers
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 10-20-2015 Sparks Tribune

Parsing the paranoia of powerful penny-pinchers
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 10-13-2015 Sparks Tribune

Good news, bad news and Machine Gun Michele
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 10-6-2015 Sparks Tribune

NAACP sets 70th Annual Freedom Fund Awards Dinner Oct. 24 Circus Circus-Reno

Voter I.D. and driver's license office closures black-out Alabama's Black Belt
Alabama statewide newspapers / 9-30-2015

Strange bedfellows and nubile wenches
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-29-2015 Sparks Tribune

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show

Sacramento mayor and Rheeactionary wife get right-wing millions to fund private schools at taxpayer expense
Who's Funding Kevin Johnson's Secret Government?
Sister newspaper of Reno News & Review sued for seeking public information
By Dave McKenna / Deadspin/Gawker Media 9-18-2015

Cheering for cheating when jockocracy rules
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 9-15-2015 Sparks Tribune

Parents file second lawsuit against Republican education privatization law
 Las Vegas Review-Journal / 9-9-2015

We don't need no education, biblical or not
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 9-8-2015 Sparks Tribune

Support Sen. Bernie Sanders' Workplace Democracy Act
"This fall, I will introduce a bill in Congress whose sole purpose is to restore and encourage workers' rights to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions."
The Workplace Democracy Act will help our economy and rebuild the middle class. It will
1. Ensure companies can’t prevent workers from getting a first contract.
2. Make it easier for workers to form unions through a majority sign up process.
3. Strengthen the enforcement when corporations break the law.

Five Ways To Help Labor on Labor Day
Jonathan Cohn / Huffington Post 9-6-2015

Washington State Supreme Court: Charter Schools Are Unconstitutional
By John Higgins / The Seattle Times 9-6-2015

9th Circuit revives Nevada welfare office voter registration suit
By Michelle Rindells/Associated Press 9-3-2015/Posted at KSL Radio/TV, Salt Lake City. Go figger.
A slightly truncated version (minus the final 3.5 paragraphs) appeared on page 4A of the
9-4-2015 Reno Gazette-Journal

Labor Day 2016: Nevada workers' last stand
Barbwire Exclusives: Gansert will run to replace Brower in Nevada Senate
Complaint filed against welfare-bashing illegal GOP front petition
Barbwire by Barbano / Uploaded 8-30-2015/ Expanded from the Tuesday 9-1-2015 Sparks Tribune

I Didn't Come From Your Rib—You Came From My Vagina
Country wisdom for moonhowlers who salivate to take their country back
A musical reminder to the GOP / Daily Kos 8-20-2015

Anaconjob continues
Mining is The Pits — Business often blocks health and safety measures
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-20-2015

JFK and LBJ:
The truth about the besieged 1965 Voting Rights Act
Don't call a lawyer to sue a doctor
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 8-18-2015 Sparks Tribune
DMV lines, voting lines & lines in the sand
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 8-11-2015 Sparks Tribune

Modest Catherine Cortez Masto for Senate fundraiser set for Aug. 9 in Reno

JFK and LBJ: The truth about the besieged 1965 Voting Rights Act

The light side of prison escape
The Lost Column: Composed 6-9-2015 and refused by major corporate media / Uploaded 8-5-2015

Heroic lions, pampered elephants & sweating RINOS
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 8-4-2015 Sparks Tribune

Ironic colonics, shameless strumpetry & repo men
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 7-28-2015 Sparks Tribune

All the news you never knew you needed to know
Barbwire by Barbano / Blue text represents substantial expansion from 7-7-2015 Sparks Tribune

New developments in the Judith Black murder case

Federal lawsuit aims to declare Nevada minimum wage unconstitutional
Las Vegas Review-Journal 6-24-2015

Stench of sulfur suffuses Nevada's year of the gun
The ghost of Trayvon Martin today hangs heavy over Sparks.
Would killer Wayne Burgarello have been acquitted if he was black?
Barbwire by Barbano / Uncensored full-length edition expanded from the 6-2-2015 Sparks Tribune

Gomorrah South casino mogul castrates First Amendment in Nevada
Lawmakers bend over to make it easier for Steve Wynn to file frivolous lawsuits that can stifle and bankrupt any critic
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 5-28-2015

Dogs and ponies, DARE traps and tokenism
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-26-2015 Sparks Tribune

Cab users: buckle up or else
By John L. Smith / Las Vegas Review-Journal 5-21-2015

Sanctions hit lawyer Glen Lerner where it hurts most
By Jane Ann Morrison / Las Vegas Review-Journal 5-6-2015

In the Uber-Nevada Legislature, words can kill
Reno federal court decision may finally make all Nevada cabbies employees
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-28-2015 Sparks Tribune

Tesla rewrites history to chisel worker paychecks
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-21-2015 Sparks Tribune

Radiation Nation:
Gomorrah South bakes in the glow of victory
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-14-2015 Sparks Tribune

¡Viva Chávez!
César Chávez Celebration XIII/Celebración de César Chávez XIII
Tuesday 31 March 2015 / Martes 31 de Marzo 2015
Circus Circus Reno event highlights

César Chávez fought for the dignity of work
by Tony Mayorga
Guest Commentary / Reno Gazette-Journal / 3-31-2015

Harry Reid, Eddy Arnold, César Chávez and Gaga Madonna
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-31-2015 Sparks Tribune

Barbano: GOP strategy to cripple labor, then gerrymander Nevada control thru at least 2022
By Cole Stangler / International Business Times 3-25-2015

High noon for the high desert outback of the American Dream
Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-24-2015 Sparks Tribune

St. Patrick, I need a green energy beer
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-17-2015 Sparks Tribune

Michele Fiore: the Italian girl mama wanted for me?
Barbwire by Barbano / Excised from the 3-10-2015 Sparks Tribune as "not suitable"

Who was that lady I saw you with last night?
(But can she cook?)

Barbano to legislative committee 3-9-2015: Let Tesla, Switch and Apple help pay for police officer video cameras

Parsing our parsimonious public pursers
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-17-2015 Sparks Tribune

Las Vegas biker defense lawyer Stubbs charged with forging client’s plea agreements
By Jeff German / Las Vegas Review-Journal 2-13-2015

Las Vegas defense attorney pleads guilty in short sale scheme
By Jeff German / Las Vegas Review-Journal 2-2-2015

Machine Gun Michele and cheap Ma Bell
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-27-2015 Sparks Tribune

The South Rises Again. Does Ira Hansen know about this?
3 states make MLK holiday a co-celebration honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Shaun King / Daily KOS 1-22-2015

Education Dysfunction Part LIII—>
Gov. Veto El Obtusè talks some trash
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-20-2015 Sparks Tribune

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show
Tuesday 12-16-2014 KRNV TV-4 Reno/KENV TV-10 Elko 11:30 a.m. PST
Andrew Barbano and Sam Shad for an entire program
(About damn time after 22 freakin' years)
Psychically cynical but nonetheless newsworthy political proctology, peerless professional prognostication and epic poetic proselytizing promiscuously promised.
TV and radio re-run times and dates + view online
KRNV TV-4 Reno/KENV TV-10 Elko 11:30 a.m. PST Wednesday, 12-10-2014
Check hell for snowfall: Barbano and Gammick actually agree on something.
Re-run times and dates + view online
Host: Sam Shad
Guest: State Senator James Settelmeyer, R-Minden, Capital Senate District 
Pundits: Jesse Gutierrez, Former Executive Director, Nevada Hispanic Services
Dick Gammick, Washoe County District Attorney
Andrew Barbano, Editor, NevadaLabor.com

CHASE THAT AMBULANCE. "Heavy Hitter" TV lawyer Glenn Lerner and his buds are in deep water down on the bayou over legal shenanigans and insider conflicts of interest in British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon cases.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-30-2014 Sparks Tribune

Breaking Bad 5: Machine Gun Michele and the good ole boys
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-16-2014 Sparks Tribune

Breaking Bad 4: Ira & ammosexuals flip us the finger
Hansen places his puppets in top slots but still controls the lower house.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-9-2014 Sparks Tribune

Breaking Bad 3: Ira, the guv and the dragonslayers
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-2-2014 Sparks Tribune

Nevada Lawmaker Ira Hansen Is Forced From Leadership Post Over Remarks on Minorities
By KIMBERLEY McGEE and ADAM NAGOURNEY / The New York Times / 11-24-2014

Breaking Bad Part Deux: Ira blames the Tribune
Barbwire by Barbano/Submitted for publication 11-21-2014/Expanded from 11-25-2014 Sparks Tribune

BREAKING NEWS—>Hansen resigns as Nevada State Assembly Speaker

BARBANO DECRIES HANSEN ON STATEWIDE NEVADA NEWSMAKERS TV
KRNV TV-4 Reno / KENV TV-10 Elko / 11:30 a.m. PST Tuesday, 11-18-2014
Re-run times and dates + view online
Host: Sam Shad
Guest: Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal
Pundits: Michael Hackett, Alrus Consulting
Jesse Gutierrez, charter school operator, former Executive Director, Nevada Hispanic Services
Andrew Barbano, Editor, NevadaLabor.com
Related item: Follytix '15: From Topless Campaign to Breaking Bad
On the documented racism and bigotry of incoming Nevada State Assembly Speaker Ira Hansen
Barbwire by Barbano / Sparks Tribune / 11-18-2014

BALL'BOX SMOKING GUNS: The Ira Hansen Files

Voting, gloating, loathing and scapegoating
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-11-2014 Daily Sparks Tribune

Lighting up in a fire-at-will state can torch your job
Labor lawyer warns that use of medical marijuana is a firing offense in Nevada
By Mike Blasky / Las Vegas Review-Journal 11-5-2014

Words from God on Nevada ballots and Ebola
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-21-2014 Sparks Tribune

Southern Nevada doctors change prescriptions after painkiller reclassification
By Steven Moore / Las Vegas Review-Journal 10-20-2014

Judge rules LV Democratic assembly candidate ineligible but sole valid opponent can still lose
By Ben Botkin / Las Vegas Review-Journal 10-16-2014

LV police investigate death of woman after unapproved medical procedure
By Annalise Little / Las Vegas Review-Journal 10-14-2014

Cheap thrills: Sex banned in Gomorrah South
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-14-2014 Sparks Tribune

Former Nevada State Assembly Majority Leader Jack Jeffrey, D-Las Vegas, dies

True confessions from the back of the bus
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-7-2014 Sparks Tribune

Wal-Mart cuts health benefits for some part-timers
Associated Press 10-7-2014

LVRJ Poll: Hutchison leads Flores for Nevada light-guv
Dead Heats: Teachers' gross profits tax initiative, secretary of state and attorney general races
By Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal 10-2-2014
The newspaper did not disclose who paid for the poll. Longtime reporter Myers also editorialized that the tax initiative is "headed to defeat." The story headline says "margins tax failing." From her own reportage, the poll in question does not support those assertions, showing a statistical dead heat with 23 percent undecided. This underscores the decades-long taxophobic, anti-union bias of the state's largest newspaper.

Why we call it Gomorrah South

Accused pimp held on $1 million bail for almost beating enslaved hooker to death
A Las Vegas pimp accused of beating a prostitute for months until her injuries required an amputation and skin grafts will not have his bail lowered, a judge ruled.
By Mike Blasky / Las Vegas Review-Journal 10-1-2014

Las Vegas hooker's treatment far worse than a dog's
By John L. Smith / Las Vegas Review-Journal 9-28-2014

Police: Woman's Vegas 'dream' smashed by sex industry torture
By Mike Blasky / Las Vegas Review-Journal 9-25-2014



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Andrew Barbano

Nevada Medical Board suspends doctor after drug probe
By Annalise Little / Las Vegas Review-Journal 9-26-2014

Longtime Vegas MD guilty of re-using medical equipment
By Jeff German / Las Vegas Review-Journal 9-25-2014

Can megaresorts scam Tesla-style freebies?
EXTRA—>READ ALL ABOUT IT: Barbwire scoops Reno Gazette-Journal by 2 years on flammable NVEnergy fire meters
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from 9-23-2014 Sparks Tribune

Education Dysfunction Part XLVIII
St. Elon, Lord Pedro and Gov. Veto El Obtúsè
Newspaper editor grills Washoe superintendent & principals about grad rate critics (aka Reno-Sparks NAACP)
The coming of Tesla's battery factory ensures perpetuation of Nevada's separate and unequal education system
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from 9-16-2014 Sparks Tribune

TOLJASO DEPT.— >9-23-2014 CRYSTAL BALL UPDATE: The above column accurately predicted Supt. Martinez's departure one week in advance

Tinkle-down economics: testing Tesla's testes
Déjà vu: Theft of Washoe Med/Renown
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-9-2014 Sparks Tribune

News Roundup: Taxpayers taken for Teslacide demo ride

School district sex education proposals astonish some Gomorrah South parents
By Trevon Milliard / Las Vegas Review-Journal 9-22-2014

Prosecutor: LV doctor endangered patients
By Jeff German / Las Vegas Review-Journal 9-15-2014

Suspended LV Judge Steve Jones signs plea deal in fraud case, may get 2 years
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 9-8-2014

Door-to-door salesmen and stoner stores
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from the Sparks Tribune/9-4-2014

Ex-US Attorney Semenza pleads guilty in tax case
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 8-28-2014

Sexy scandals, whitewashes & black towers
Media overlook federal sex/race/ethnicity investigation into Washoe County School District
 Meanwhile, big money is spent strictly on abstinence
State panel to review militarization of police departments
In Nevada visit, new Veterans Administration boss proves all jobs require training
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from 8-21-2014 Sparks Tribune

Nevada's advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Police militarization barrier to community relations

105 + 285 layoffs at LV public hospital called necessary
Las Vegas Sun / 8-21-2014

Thou shalt not screw with the anointed crown prince
Law firm leak may prove fatal to Adam Laxalt's AG campaign
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review Blog 8-20-2014

DEFENSE LAWYERS CALL FOR REVIEW OF PROSECUTOR RENT PAYMENTS: Prosecutors paying key witnesses’ rent may have derailed justice for years in Clark County criminal cases, Las Vegas defense attorneys fear.
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 8-20-2014

Study Shows the Madness of States Refusing to Expand Medicaid
Joshua Holland / Bill Moyers.com / 8-14-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLIV—>
Pots and Kettles: Can't we all get along?
BREAKING NEWS: WCSD Vice-President Dave Aiazzi has announced that he has been diagnosed with leukemia and will be resigning by the end of September. Remember him with healing thoughts and prayers.
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from the Sparks Tribune/8-7-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLIII—>
Playing the race card for profit and peril
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from 7-31-2014 Sparks Tribune

The abortion candidate? Single issue threatens to consume Lucy Flores candidacy
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 7-31-2014

Education Dysfunction Part XLII—>
We don't need no education or Pedro, either
Reno-Sparks-Washoe school boss fired and unfired
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from the Sparks Tribune/7-24-2014 UPDATED

How to assassinate Medicare and Medicaid
Health Savings Accounts: The insurance industry's Trojan Horse
Andrew Barbano / Reno Gazette-Journal / 7-19-2014

Equal Rights Amendment isn’t nostalgia in Nevada
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 7-28-2014

Las Vegas cancer center drops Obamacare patients
Culinary Union is part of cancelled co-op
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 7-17-2014

Migrant laborers: Your folks and refugee kids
What do broke Baby Boomers and Central American refugee children have in common? The future of the U.S. workforce.
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from the 7-17-2014 Sparks Tribune

Veteran Las Vegas lawyer R. Christopher Reade gets prison time in $2.3mm money laundering case
Jeff German / Las Vegas Review-Journal / 7-15-2014

Ask Hobby Lobby to take in refugee kids
So five uptight old Catholic guys in grim reaper robes don't like contraception.
Wonder if they thought that way back in college?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-3-2014 Sparks Tribune

Las Vegas doctor to plead guilty amid broadening probe of pain med prescriptions
Jeff German / Las Vegas Review-Journal / 6-17-2014


Wage action filed: Reno Aceholes, other minor league baseball teams accused of slavery in treatment of players
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 8-21-2014

Reno Grand Sierra Resort sued for 4,700 employees' back pay

Workers Resist Scofflaw Employers in Wage Theft Capital of the US
Billions stolen from U.S. workers every year
Jordan Melograna / Truthout.org 7-2-2014

60 YEARS AGO
Oliver Brown, et. al., Appellants, vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et. al.
5-17-1954

Reno judge sanctions American Family Insurance $50,000
ABA Journal 5-16-2014
(A similar article appeared in the 5-13-2014 Reno Gazette-Journal)
Judge Janet Berry's order 5-12-2014

Lawsuit alleges state conspired with employers to subvert intent of minimum wage constitutional amendment
Ralston Reports / 5-12-2014


Copyright © 2004-2017
Andrew Barbano

Negative Optimism: Making the best of being worst
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-8-2014 Sparks Tribune

Mayday!
Taxes smolder while citizens do slow burn
May Day in Reno, D-Day for teachers' union tax petition
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-1-2014 Sparks Tribune

Making the best of an inbred situation
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune

College athletes need unions, pay
By Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded from the 4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune

Banqueters cry: Hail, César
By Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded from the 4-10-2014 Sparks Tribune

Tax day march for equal rights & equal pay

On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, famously remarking "We have lost the south for a generation."

On April 10, 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.

The Obamacare Bitcoin online vote exchange
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-10-2014 Sparks Tribune

In search of the modern day Barbara Bennett
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-3-2014 Sparks Tribune

César Chávez Celebration XII
Monday 31 March 2014 / Circus Circus-Reno
Order 2014 César Chávez Celebration tickets, tables & sponsorships

Barbano on the Barbwire plots new TV season
Click above to support community TV & see all the news you never knew you needed to know 'til now

Hiding in Plain Sight
Barbwire Education Scandals go mainstream two years later
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 3-27-2014

We Don't Need No Education XXXVIII —>
The politics of media ga-ga boosterism
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-20-2014 Sparks Tribune

Another bizarro from Brent: From 10 years-to-life to a year & probation for sex with a 6-year old
Somebody call Mariska Hargitay
USA Today / 3-20-2014
More about retiring Washoe District Judge Brent Adams

We Don't Need No Education XXXVII —>
Follytix '14: If you don't laugh, you'll cry
Continuing Barbwire investigation revealing bogus graduation rates finally confirmed by Nevada's two major newspapers
BREAKING NEWS: State illegally uses tax money vs. teacher tax vote
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-13-2014 Sparks Tribune

Campaign 2014: An expensive comedy act
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-6-2014 Sparks Tribune

We Don't Need No Education XXXVI —>
Education: The cure spawns an even worse disease
ALSO: Nevada Assemblymember Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas, will declare for lieutenant governor in early March
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-20-2014 Sparks Tribune

Fold your favorite charity, then go thank yourself
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-13-2014 Sparks Tribune

Lying means never having to say you're sorry
Wasn't the doctors' 2004 ballot question supposed to give us all the doctors we'd ever need? Never mind?!
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-6-2014 Sparks Tribune

College values twisted: Unionize college athletes
Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded from the 2-6-2014 Sparks Tribune

Barbano the Barbwire Man and Nevada State AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer Danny Thompson on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program

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

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

All the news you wish you didn't need to know
Nevada rural health care and emergency response still stuck in the stone age
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-16-2014 Sparks Tribune

Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program

2:00 p.m. Jan. 18 memorial set for former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital trustee Vivian Freeman

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

Can Amazon drones deliver healthy cigarettes?
Lotsa laughs, César Chávez Celebration XII, Jello Biafra, 3 obits, the campaign to elect Don Dondero to the Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame + Barbwire.TV. What's not to like?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-9-2014 Sparks Tribune

Solar-powered insurance drones from hell
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-2-2014 Sparks Tribune

 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR/ Feliz Año Nuevo

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

Hope you and yours enjoyed Happy High Holly Days!
MerryChristmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah/Thanksgibleting

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


Copyright © 2004-2017
Andrew Barbano

RENO, Nev. (12-5-2013) — Former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital trustee Vivian Freeman died this morning at her home in Reno. She was 86.
Memorial event 1-18-2014

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

POOR 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).

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 Reno

Immigration Shifts Political Power
AP-Las Vegas Sun / 11-20-2013

Staff, visitors and patients sue Summerlin Hospital over TB exposure
AP & Las Vegas Sun / 11-20-2013

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Barbano on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program. Click here for on-demand and re-run times
11-11-2013: Of special interest to doctors and lawyers —> especially in light of the proposed California initiative to raise the malpractice cap and new med school for UNLV.
Another program to underfund. What doctor shortage?
Host: Sam Shad
Guests: C.J. Hadley, Editor/Publisher, Range Magazine
Carolyn Dufurrena, Rancher and Author
Pundits: Chip Evans, former Washoe County Democratic Chair
and talk radio host
John Gwaltney, Economist and President Emeritus,
Truckee Meadows Community College
Andrew Barbano, Editor, NevadaLabor.com
As usual, the pundits jousted over schools and taxes.
Read the Barbwire in the March 28 Sparks Tribune for a radically conservative solution. For further outrage and erudition, go to We Don't Need No Education: The continuing & neverending series
Turn on, tune in and tell a friend.
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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
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

Let's persuade Apple to make 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

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

Decay in Nevada’s mental health system goes beyond Rawson-Neal
"Nevada doesn't have decay in its mental health system because Nevada doesn't have a mental health system; it has a prison system paid for with the mental health care budget."
Las Vegas Sun / 9-9-2013

MGM Resorts orderd to pay $325,000 damages and reinstate whistleblower
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 9-6-2013

LV attorney Gerry Zobrist sentenced to 7 years for mortgage scams
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 9-5-2013

Second victim dies from hepatitis C outbreak at Dr. Desai's clinic
Las Vegas Review-Journal / 9-5-2013

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

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

Beleaguered Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital issued preliminary denial of accreditation by Chicago-based Joint Commission
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-23-2013

So what else is new? Joint Commission only acts after Nevada disasters
Barbwire by Barbano/Expanded from the 2-16-1997 Daily Sparks Tribune

Rawson-Neal ramps up efforts to treat mentally ill as local emergency rooms struggle
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-22-2013

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 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

Guilty of Murder: Las Vegas hepatitis C murder cases archive

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


Copyright © 2004-2017
Andrew Barbano

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

Read the actual vetoed measure (SB180) for yourself

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

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

MAY 29: Sen. Harry Reid Keynotes Path to Citizenship 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

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, above. 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.)

Las Vegas hepatitis C murder cases archive

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 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

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

César Chávez Celebration XI
Join us again Thursday 28 March 2013 Circus Circus-Reno
Jueves, 28 de Marzo, 2013 en Circus Circus de Reno
Nevada Gov. Sandoval declines invitation third year in a row
El Gobernador de Nevada, Brian Sandoval, declinó la invitación por el tercer año consecutivo.

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

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?
School lawyers will need the construction defect law.
U-News e-Bulletin by Andrew Barbano / 2-26-2013

Proposed legislation would allow nurses to practice independently of doctors
Las Vegas Sun / 2-28-2013

California and Nevada take opposite stances on disciplining doctors
Nevada doesn't disclose its stance on a doctor who admitted to battery on a woman. California pulled his license.
Las Vegas Sun 2-22-2013

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"

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

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

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

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

Happy High Holly Days

John Wayne, Michael Moore & Andrew Undershaft
The guns of mythology
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-20-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
Great minds think alike dept.—>Includes an update from Michael Moore

House Ethics Committee finds Berkley violated ethics rules
By Karoun Demirjian / Las Vegas Sun / 12-20-12
The House Ethics Committee has found that Rep. Shelley Berkley “violated House Rules and other laws, rules and standards of conduct” in a mixed decision that also cleared her of wrongdoing on her advocacy to protect UMC's kidney transplant center from closure. The committee found Berkley guilty of “improperly using her official position for beneficial interest by permitting her office to take official action specifically on behalf of her husband’s practice” when she helped him with trouble he had collecting claims through Medicaid, Medicare and the Veteran's Administration.

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

Guilty of Murder: Las Vegas hepatitis C murder cases archive

Lawyers and judges dance the recusal rhumba in Whittemore vs. Seeno

Critics say judge who took campaign funds from Harvey Whittemore must step down from civil case against fired researcher
Judge Polaha was randomly assigned after Judge Adams recused himself and Judge Elliott was challenged
Will Judge Crater soon be the only one left?
Reno Gazette-Journal / 3-22-2012

Judge Brent Adams recuses self from case after disclosing campaign funds from Whittemore
Reno Gazette-Journal / 3-15-2012

DoctorLawyerWatch.com Exclusive
Judge Adams, who recused himself late in the Whittemore cases, now faces a disqualification motion in the bitter, decade-old litigation between warring U-Haul millionaire heirs.

Warring U-Haul heirs want Judge Brent Adams disqualified because of campaign contributions from lawyer-developer Harvey Whittemore
by Andrew Barbano

RENO, NEVADA, THURSDAY 3-29-2012 8:40 a.m. PDT / 15:40 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT (U-NEWS) — Late yesterday, attorneys filed a thick motion in Washoe District Court demanding the disqualification of Judge Brent Adams in decade-old litigation between warring U-Haul millionaire heirs.

The plaintiffs allege that because Adams received substantial amounts of campaign cash from the defendants and their interests while the case was before him, he cannot effectively handle the case. Adams was re-elected in 2008.

"In 2008, Judge Adams received $36,000 in campaign contributions from several of the Defendants (including $10,000 from non-party U-Haul International, Inc., a subsidiary of one of the Defendants.) Despite Plaintiff's previous request for reassignment to another judge, neither Defendants nor Judge Adams disclosed these campaign donations to Plaintiffs," the motion reads.

Plaintiff lawyers stand to be very embarrassed for not having noticed publicly available campaign expense reports for almost four years.

"As evidenced by Judge Adams' recent recusal in another matter involving significantly smaller campaign contributions (both in absolute dollar amounts and as a percentage of total campaign contributions received in that election cycle), such contributions by a party to this litigation create a sufficient appearance of impropriety to necessitate Judge Adams' disqualification from further hearings in this case," asserts the motion filed by The O'Mara Law Firm, P.C., of Reno.

Judge Adams recently recused himself from a case involving lawyer-developer Harvey Whittemore after noting that in 2008 he received $10,400 from Whittemore business interests and family members.

The motion in the U-Haul heirs case is supported by eleven exhibits including recent news articles about Adams and Whittemore.

Lawyers and judges have been dancing the recusal rhumba in the high-stakes Whittemore vs. Seeno Brothers litigation. Judge Steve Elliott was randomly selected to replace Adams but defendants' lawyers used a peremptory challenge to disqualify him. The case was then randomly assigned to Judge Jerry Polaha who received $3,000 from Whittemore in his 2000 election campaign.

Judge Polaha has not announced whether or not he will step aside.

If Washoe County runs out of jurists, might the long missing Judge Crater come out of a long retirement to save the day?

If you can handle more as matters degrade and/or develop, tune in Barbwire by Barbano every Sunday in the Daily Sparks Tribune.

I know several of the guys involved in the above screwed up mess and hereby serve notice that if any of the parties are looking to cut costs, I'd be glad to screw up at least as badly for just half the price or less.

How hard can it be?

All lucky 13 documents filed yesterday are exclusively available for viewing at DoctorLawyerWatch.com/, along with some links to recent Harvey stories.

Be well. Raise hell.


 UPDATE: Judge Adams recused himself Thursday afternoon, March 29, about eight hours after the above story was uploaded to U-News media and professional lists. Reno Gazette-Journal reporter Martha Bellisle posted her story at 5:15 p.m. PDT March 29 / 0o:15 March 30 ZULU/GMT/SUT/CUT. It ran in the March 30 print edition.

Perhaps Ms. Bellisle has since discovered that you can't believe everything a lawyer says. Check out the Barbwire followup in the Sunday April 1 Sparks Tribune.

Motion to disqualify Washoe District Judge Brent Adams filed 28 March 2012
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Washoe District Court Case CV02-05602
Uploaded 3-29-2012 3:37 a.m. PDT / 10:37 ZULU/GMT/SUT/CUT

Motion to Disqualify Judge Brent Adams

Affidavit of Attorney Christopher T. Heffelfinger

Exhibit 1
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Stay tuned...

Michael Moore and Crackers, the corporate crime-fighting chicken make a house call on Mike's Emmy-winning 1994-96 NBC+FOX show, TV Nation. See below. He went on to win an Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, the story of American and her guns, then produced Sicko about everything wrong with our health care system and how to fix it.

St. Mary's firings begin
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-8-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Nevada would profit handsomely from Obamacare
Hugh Jackson / Las Vegas CityLife 4-5-2012

A bunch of law-breaking, union-busting, profit-gouging sleazoids
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-1-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune

Nevada Supreme Court: Lawyers shouldn’t have gotten bigger award than brain-dead girl
Cy Ryan / Las Vegas Sun / 4-5-2012

      U-NEWS BULLETIN: About 500 attended the Jan. 13, 2012, memorial service for Washoe District Judge Bob Perry at the University of Nevada-Reno Crowley Student Union. Several of his former colleagues will retire early.


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Heart doctors accuse Renown/Washoe Med of fraud and conspiracy
Reno Gazette-Journal 11-13-2011

The Nevada initiative partially banning smoking in public buildings has resulted in a big drop in hospital admissions for heart attacks and strokes. Too bad casino and bar workers don't enjoy any protection.
Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-18-2011

If you can't win, be spectacular
EXCLUSIVE: Reno Catholic hospital sale rumored
UPDATE: Confirmed, controversial and perhaps corrupt
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-28-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune


Jury awards $104 million to LV couple in hepatitis case
AP / Daily Sparks Tribune / 10-13-2011

Las Vegas doctor among 3 indicted in oxycodone pill mill case
Las Vegas Sun / 9-29-2011

Bullshots and bum watches
Streaming video: Washoe DA melts down like a Dali painting on TV
Culinary 226 cuts new deal in the face of Grand Sierra Reno's
wholesale outsourcing
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

State closes LV Nursing home after reports of abuse and theft
Las Vegas Sun / 8-26-2011

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 & expanded from the 8-7-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

What's the ugliest part of your body?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-31-2011 Daily Sparks Tribune

Dr. Strangelove and Sen. Don the Dumberer
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Daily Sparks Tribune 7-10-2011

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

Legal malpractice suit reinstated against
Las Vegas lawyer Dennis Myron Leavitt

Do No Harm — Health Care Can Hurt You
Las Vegas Sun Continuing Series

Greenspun: Hospitals should examine what ails them, seek cure

Unlicensed process server indicted by grand jury

Unlicensed process server under investigation re: false affidavits

Greenspun: Rise in infection rates, hospitals' reticence are troublesome

Former medical consultant sentenced for failing to report criminal activity

Grand jury indicts Dr. Dipak Desai in hepatitis outbreak

LV Attorney Noel Gage sentenced in felony obstruction case

Medical board suspends licenses of Las Vegas doctors

Crapshoots, trapshoots and turkey shoots
Carrows restaurants run workers into the ground / Washoe DA race starts to rock
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-8-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

DO NO HARM: HOSPITAL CARE IN LAS VEGAS

State to investigate infection findings
The Sun’s investigation into lethal bacteria in Las Vegas hospitals has identified more apparent underreporting by hospitals of the number of times patients are infected at the facilities / Las Vegas Sun 8-9-2010

Nevada State Bar whitewashes TV pitchman and non-practicing lawyer Glen Lerner
Las Vegas Review-Journal 2-2-2010
More of the self-styled heavy hitter's greatest hits...
...and the hits just keep on coming

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/ Daily Sparks Tribune /12-6-2009

If Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs & Unions LIVE TV Dec. 6
Available to every TV in N/E California and N/W Nevada
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 Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009.
Note: The above live link is now disabled.
Catch the CW network re-run, 9:00 p.m. PST 12-6-2009 /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

Déjà vu all over again
Renown/Washoe Med, always in desperate need of nurses, fires 15 of the best

Message from the Mahatma
Keith Olbermann Exposes Congressional Opponents of Universal Health Care

IMPORTANT: The Laub & Laub law firm, ubiquitous in TV advertising, has been hit with an embarrassing decision for attempting to rip off an injured client. "Instead of doing anything to benefit Mrs. (Raquel) Mora, Laub and Laub simply sought to increase its fees in direct conflict with the law and its clients' interests while purporting to represent her," Judge Robert Perry ruled. "In reaching this decision, the Court is mindful that Laub and Laub has a reported history of conduct wherein it disregarded clients' rights in preference to its own," Perry wrote in zeroing the firm's legal fees in the case and awarding them to Mrs. Mora. (From the 7-26-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune. Download the decision here. Access more Laub laments here.)

EXCLUSIVE: Nevada's experiment in hospital cost mitigation worked — so the state legislature repealed it, naturally.

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

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

Paul Newman: Driven Star
New Michael Moore film premieres on SNCAT this week
Slow progress on saving community radio-TV stations
Expanded from the 9-28-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

Breaking News: Nurses win first contract at St. Mary's Reno
Washoe Med/Renown nurses also ink deal

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

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Specific links in the 2005-2011 archive—>Doctors exploited; patients suffer, too
A government program to address a national health care crisis by placing foreign doctors in America's rural towns and inner cities is being undermined by employers — mostly U.S. doctors who profit by exploiting the physicians and diverting them from the patients who need them.

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