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


 

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

 

List, lust and political roulette
5-4-2008

Laughing gods, Easter bunnies and black whales
4-27-2008

Guns, gods, gays, gringos, graybeards & gushers
Expanded from the 4-20-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune


Monopolists and mass malpractice
Gasoline price fixing and greasing pols to exploit the sick

4-13-2008

Washoe Med: Renowned for Ripping Us Off
Special Internet Edition 4-10-2008


Who's on Worst?
Nurses organize, governor Hooverized, regents piratize
Is anybody running this show?

4-6-2008

GIANTS 3: The beast awakens and comes full circle
3-30-2008

Week of the Giants Begins
3-23-2008

Giants will walk among us again
3-16
-2008

Traveling salesman syndrome
Taxpayers don't even get kissed afterward
3-9
-2008

Pollyanna and Hillary at Sparks City Hall
3-2-2008

The Wages of Sin
"My doctor killed me."
2-24-2008

Rats, fat cats and Olympic Kool-Aid
2-17-2008

Barbwire.TV
2-10
-2008

The seven-second solution
Featuring awfully waffley Wallerie
2-3
-2008

Paying for our sins
1-27-2008

The disappointment tango
Ditchdiggers and the danse macabre
NBC orders affiliates off the air to dump Kucinich from debate
1-20-2008

The crying game
1-13-2008

Blasts from the past
1-6-2008

Guest Columnists
Jake Highton
Travus T. Hip
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Dennis Myers
Orland T. Outland
Labor Leaders
The Farside Chronicles

Worthy of your reading
150 Years of 9/11
A historical tour de force by Dennis Myers
Now with a new photo illustration


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

 


12-year investigative series

PUMPING PROFITS — Why does gasoline cost so much?
Read the awful truth in the Barbwire Oilogopoly Archive

Gov. Dudley Do-Right's Greatest Hits


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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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