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Unless otherwise noted, columns originate in the Daily Sparks, Nev., Tribune.

NEW! 1995 Washoe Med Grand Jury Report & commentary
Additional columns just uploaded from our archives
Grand Jury report available for the first time on the web

Just in time for the latest nurses' union vote — and victory

 

THE DEAN'S LIST

   The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.
      RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006


NEWLY UPLOADED BLAST FROM THE PAST: The reasons behind the failure of Nevada's first non-smoking casino
Barbwire 3-2-1990

 

Time to launch
12-30-2007

Hearty hometown heroes hurting
12-23-2007

Checking the moneychangers
It COULD happen to you
Special Internet Edition

12-18-2007

Blackguards and gold stars
Full frontal Hillary, Part Deux
12-16-2007

 

The last picture show
Shamelessly caucusing while Jim the Dim is cutting
No strike at Grand Sierra Reno this month
CWA Local 9413 endorses John Edwards

12-9-2007

Christmas stockings 2007: Full frontal Hillary
12-2-2007

Mae West, moonhowlers, poets and anarchists
11-25-2007

Keep hope alive
11-18-2007

Follytix for fun and prophet
11-11-2007

Dull anger
11-4-2007

The Lady in the Red Dress
The Barbwire's classic Nevada Day column written in 1983

SPARKS TRIBUNE 10-28-2007

The cure for what ails us
10-21-2007

It can't happen here?
10-14-2007

Getting away with murder
10-7-2007

Burning down the house
In Reno, corporate welfare comes before fire safety

9-30-2007

Comeuppance for corporate welfare queens
SPECIAL INTERNET EDITION 9-25-2007

BOXING PANDORA
9-23-2007

Striking blows for justice
9-16-2007

The new Confederate States of America
9-9-2007

LABOR DAY 2007: Labors of Love
9-2-2007

Grand Designs
8-26-2007

Going, going, gone
Labor dispatches and Hillary scratches
8-19-2007

Party like it's 1929
8-12-2007

The empires strike back
8-5-2007

Bandwidth bandidos
7-29-2007

Raw meat and greenbacks
7-22-2007

Diss me, father
7-15-2007

Buried in a Detroit sled: New wisdom from used cars
7-8-2007

Tax Foundation overstates Nevada tax burden
Research skewed

Las Vegas Sun 7-7-2007

Voting against ourselves
7-1-2007

Sexy binomial propositions
6-24-2007

The price of piece
Hooking business on Sparks Blvd.
6-17-2007

Naked perversions and taxing fixations
6-10-2007

Keep your face powder dry
6-3-2007

Mummorial Daze
5-27-2007

Tales of pigs, perversions and pipelines
5-20-2007

The Nevada Flat Show
5-13-2007

Steve Wynn, Union Buster
Using implausible deniability and Christian forgiveness against his own workers
DEALERS UNION ELECTION AT WYNN-LAS VEGAS MAY 12-13
BARBWIRE SPECIAL INTERNET EDITION 5-11-2007


THE DEAN'S LIST

   The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.
      RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006


NEWLY UPLOADED BLAST FROM THE PAST: The reasons behind the failure of Nevada's first non-smoking casino
Barbwire 3-2-1990

 

Puppy Dog Tales
5-6-2007

I hate it when I'm right
4-29-2007

Juggling Conundrums
4-22-2007


Mirror, mirror on the tube
Don Imus R Us
4-15-2007


Nobody's Fools, Part Deux
4-8-2007

 


Nobody's Fools

4-1-2007

All the news unfit to print
The news you never knew you needed to know
3-25-2007

After the Fall
An apocalyptic analog future
3-18-2007

Elephant Traps and Idiot Flaps
3-11-2007

Crashing and Burning
Taking stock of bulls and bears

3-4-2007

You don't say
City fathers let it bleed
2-25-2007

The Road to Chapaquiddick
2-18-2007

Casablanca to Carson City
2-11-2007

The Molly Ivins Hall of Flames
2-4-2007

Princess Cassandra's Mirror
1-28-2007

Unbought and Unbossed
1-21-2007

Rider on the Storm
1-14-2007

Behold Caesar
1-7-2007

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Orland T. Outland
Labor Leaders
The Farside Chronicles


BLASTS FROM THE PAST
Some of the Barbwire's Greatest Hits

NEW! 1995 Washoe Med Grand Jury Report
Additional columns just uploaded from our archives
Grand Jury report available for the first time on the web
Just in time for the latest nurses' union vote — and victory

Merle Brennan: The Last American Sportsman, 1-7-1996
Updated with vintage photos, restored race cars and a visit from Il Comendatore himself
UPDATED 8-2-2006

Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004
A memoir from Nevada's undercover Reagan-Bush PR man

Slightly updated 6-6-2004 from the 8-2-1992 Daily Sparks Tribune original

History
Labor Day '94: People vs. Corporate Con-Job
A brief history of neo-con PR and the roots of corporate propaganda

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em
The short life of Nevada's first non-smoking casino
Daily Sparks Tribune 3-2-1990

Tragedy
Come, follow me: A walk with the grateful dead
A visit to Nevada's first AIDS leper colony
From the 8-19-1988 and 7-10-1994 Daily Sparks Tribune

Did Naval Air Station Fallon bury live animals after a huge fuel spill?
From the 1-19-1990 AND 1-22-1990 Daily Sparks Tribune

Comedy
Theme casinos, Spuds MacKenzie & Brigitte Bardot
The first Barbwire

Originally published in Reno, LV and Sunworld Airlines magazines, August, 1987

Continuing Tragicomedy
Judge Clarence Thomas meets Prof. Kingsfield
Reprinted in the San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Legal Journals, 1991

 

 

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Andrew Barbano is a Reno-based member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413, the union of Mark Twain. A 39-year Nevadan, he is a writer, media maven and editor/producer of websites and radio and television programs. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune since 1988.

 

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