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Unless otherwise noted, columns originate in the Daily Sparks, Nev., Tribune.
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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. HAT
TRICK 2010:
Live
Streaming Barbwire.TV
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Pretty
Elle's trip to hell
Expanded
from the 12-27-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Déjà
vu all over again and again and again
Barack
Obama: A bit too much of Clarence Thomas?
Al
Qaeda uses U.S. Predator drone video surveillance:
Been there, done that story in 1991
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-20-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Running
red in a frozen economy
12-13-2009
Health
care in prime time, ready or not
If
Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs and Unions LIVE TV Dec. 6
12-6-2009
Turn
on, tune in and tell a friend
If
Reform Fails: Health Care, Jobs and Unions LIVE TV Dec. 6
11-29-2009
Give
'em health Harry, part deux
11-22-2009
Sick
and tired of being sick and tired
11-15-2009
Topless
10 reasons for unconscious conduct
11-1-2009
Give
'em health, Harry
Goodbye
to Pamela Crowell
Substantially expanded
from the 10-25-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Twiggy
the woodpecker on Apricot Lane
10-4-2009
Hey
buddy, can you spare a dime?
Barbwire
wins second straight Nevada Press Assn. first-place award
9-20-2009
Reno
goes Cabellyup again
Money
for nothing and the kicks for free
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-13-2009
Labor
Day 2009:
Rise of the Vampire Corpobots
9-6-2009
Teddy,
Tunney, cowboys and Indians
8-30-2009
Angry
Americans and Freudian fraud
8-23-2009
Naming
names and calling bluffs
8-16-2009
Get
out of Dodge
Expanded
from the 8-9-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
People
who live in crystal balls
8-2-2009
Malapropisms,
anachronisms and an adios
Law enforcement and
labor leader Gary Wolff dies
7-26-2009
Swatting
gnats and swallowing camels
7-19-2009
Night
music and daily dissonance
From
classical gas in Reno to political tap dancing in Sparks
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 7-12-2009
Hurts
so bad, hurts so good
Cassandra
Barbano's crystal ball proves prescient
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 7-5-2009
Stone
walls at Sparks City Hall
Barbwire / Daily
Sparks Tribune/ 6-28-2009
Holy
men, studpuppies and quackups
Expanded
from the 6-21-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Foreplay
in Washington
Expanded
from the 6-14-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Reaganomics
and Reaganethics
Expanded
from the 6-7-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Depopulating
Nevada
A
truly radical and rational vision of the future
Expanded from the 5-31-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Melting
down just in time for summer
Expanded
from the 5-24-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Firefighters,
firestarters and camels' noses
5-17-2009
Gov.
Jim the Dim does it again
5-10-2009
Dingbat
voters in the belfry of follytix
5-3-2009
Windows
of stained glass and futures passed
4-26-2009
Baseball,
welfare, Crackerjack and politics
4-19-2009
Fearless
forecasts, computers and counterspins
4-12-2009
Nevada:
The state for solo souls
4-5-2009
Charlatans,
saints and sinners
3-29-2009
Kool-Aid,
pickle smoke and jackalopes
3-22-2009
César
Chávez Day will remind us what we can become
Reno
Gazette-Journal / 3-21-2009
Treason
on the Ides of March
3-15-2009
The
sunny angel and the man of steel
Adios
to Phyllis Baker Kaiser and In Search of Geraldine McGee
3-8-2009
Peter
Pans in public office
3-1-2009
An
evening with the beautiful people
Expanded from
the 2-22-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Nevada's
new federal education czar
2-15-2009
Lipstick
revisionism and toxic foreign affairs
2-8-2009
Affairs
of ancient and emerging states
2-1-2009
St.
Paul, sex and politics
1-25-2009
Tap
City: A blast from our sordid past
1-18-2009
Gunning
for the least among us
Expanded
from the 1-11-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Sex
and politics as a religious experience
Expanded from
the 1-4-2009 Daily Sparks Tribune
Guest
Columnists
Jake
Highton
Travus
T. Hipp
Dennis Myers
Orland
T. Outland
Labor Leaders
The Farside
Chronicles
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BLASTS
FROM THE PAST NEW!
1995 Washoe Med Grand Jury
Report Doug
Davies: Rum and Ragtime Renaissance Man Ronald
Reagan, 1911-2004 Tragedy Did
Naval Air Station Fallon bury live animals after a huge fuel spill? Comedy Continuing
Tragicomedy Smoke
'em if ya got 'em |
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PUMPING PROFITS
Why does gasoline cost so much? |
Gov. Dudley Do-Right's Greatest
Hits
Dudley Do-Right, Snidely Whiplash and Nell Fenwick cartoon characters © Jay Ward Productions
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Andrew Barbano is a Reno-based member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413, the union of Mark Twain. A 40-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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Reno-Sparks-Washoe
Charter cable channels 16 & 216
High-definition channel 80-295 2:00-4:00 p.m. PDT M-F, 21:00-23:00 ZULU/GMT NEW! LIVE 4:00-5:00 p.m. PDT (23:00 ZULU) Tuesdays and Thursdays on Carson City Charter digital cable channels 10/210 & 26/226 Call 775-882-TALK (882-8255) Streaming at Barbwire.TV, reruns statewide. |
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