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RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006

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The 2009 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners
Tony the Tiger & the flaky NFL
Barbwire / 11-30-2008
Deregulation is never having to say you're sorry
Barbwire / 8-3-2008
Nevada: A good place to visit, but do you want to live here?
Barbwire / 6-15-2008

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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

The wrath of self-righteous racism
11-8-2009

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

Rory, Rory Hallelujah?
10-18-2009

Searching for God in a golden fall
10-11-2009

Twiggy the woodpecker on Apricot Lane
10-4-2009

Shining light into dark places
9-27-2009

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
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Orland T. Outland
Labor Leaders
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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

Doug Davies: Rum and Ragtime Renaissance Man
.pdf format / Daily Sparks Tribune 11-14-1993


Merle Brennan: The Last American Sportsman, 1-7-1996
Updated with vintage photos, restored race cars and a visit from Il Comendatore himself
UPDATED 10-4-2008

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

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

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em
The reasons behind the failure of Nevada's first non-smoking casino
Barbwire 3-2-1990


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 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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