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1997
Your better life today had President Kennedy lived

Originally published 12/28/97
Teenage immigrant welfare mothers on drugs
Originally published 12/21/97
Serious denial of the reality of life on street
Originally published 12/14/97
Fear & Loathing in the Newsroom
Originally published 12/10/97
Tax thrills, casino shills and Hilton chills
Originally published 12/7/97
Baby rape: coming soon to a casino near you
Originally published 11/30/97
Sensational suggestions for the new Mapes Hotel
Originally published 11/23/97
The None of the Above working people's platform
Originally published 11/16/97
The ghostly return of none of the above
Originally published 11/9/97
How to steal a movie & a theater to show it
Originally published 11/2/97
Politics & poker: Frankie Sue and Spoo, too
Originally published 10/26/97
Coca-Cola Catholicism & moral media wars
Originally published 10/19/97
The Corporate Patsy French Kiss Awards
Originally published 10/12/97
The Eldorado fire: Burning Man goes commercial
Originally published 10/5/97
Theaters of war: Sparks, Reno & the IRS
Originally published 9/28/97
Three bears break into labor's house
Originally published 9/21/97
The Gannett-Journal railroad job
Originally published 9/14/97
Last chance to stop local corporate welfare
Originally published 9/7/97
Labor Day '97: the home run strike
Originally published 8/31/97
The lessons of the UPS Hot August Strike
Originally published 8/24/97
The unlikely heroines of the Hot August Strike
Originally published 8/17/97
The teamwork game of chickens and eggs
Originally published 8/10/97
Cladianos & casino corporate welfare
Originally published 8/3/97
Justice William J. Brennan: national monument
Originally published 7/27/97
The Fat 90's Downsize This! Awards
Originally published 7/20/97
On Monday, pull a Tyson on an earmarked empire
Originally published 7/13/97
Dark warnings from the mind of a parking meter
Originally published 7/6/97
Lessons from the ones who weren't supposed to die
Originally published 6/29/97
Nominations open for the 1997 golden screwup awards
Originally published 6/22/97
Myth quiz '97: lies, damned lies and economists
Originally published 6/15/97
Propaganda and the 49er corporate welfare mall
Originally published 6/8/97
On the Comstock with Mark Twain, Ty Cobb & Norm Nielson
Originally published 6/1/97
Spend your weekend working to make gasoline sexy
Originally published 5/25/97
Reno's unspeakable sin
Originally published 5/21/97
Calculating corporate rate of return on a body of women
The "lost column" scheduled for 5/11/97 but never published in the Trib
Con jobs by charlatans in the name of our children
Originally published 5/4/97
Slavery, sweatshops and shell game education
Originally published 4/27/97
New evidence in the university financial shell game
Originally published 4/20/97
Pretty Paul Laxalt: nuking Nevada for fun & profit
Originally published 4/13/97
GOP leadership descends from red scare to racism
Originally published 4/6/97
The Nevada Republican Party becomes communist
Originally published 3/30/97
The Nevada welfare queen apprenticeship awards
Originally published 3/23/97
Libel suits, blackballs and crooked carny flat shows
Originally published 3/16/97
All university regents face ouster, TMCC chief quits
Originally published 3/9/97
The question no one asked Howard Rosenberg--till now
Originally published 3/2/97
The buckaroo kangaroo court hangs Rosenberg Thursday
Originally published 2/23/97
Lessons from grateful dead children of a lesser god
Originally published 2/16/97
Water weary warnings of the fire next time
Originally published 2/9/97
Only embrace the tar baby when DNA proves it's yours
Originally published 2/2/97
Emperors, educators, pregnant paupers & presidents
Originally published 1/26/97
Secret university audit catches chancellor lying!
Originally published 1/19/97
Hilton Puts a Contract Out on Reno
Originally published 1/14/97
A watered down education for Mother Nevada's kids
Originally published 1/12/97
Both Nevada and its university open 1997 lost at sea
Originally published 1/5/97

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Oct. 27, 1996, Barbwire began a six-month investigation into the labyrinthine intrigues of the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN), now called the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE). At the suggestion of chess grandmaster and author Larry Evans, most of the 1996 installments, as well as one involving university issues in the following year, were entered by the Sparks Tribune in two categories of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize competition. You may access the archive by clicking here. That ongoing interest in the affairs of higher education has never waned. You may use the NevadaLabor.com search engine to do a keyword search on the occasional treatment of university issues. You will also enjoy the ongoing comments of longtime University of Nevada-Reno journalism Prof. Jake Highton. Be well. Raise hell. — Andrew

Andrew Barbano is a 42-year Nevadan, a member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO and editor of NevadaLabor.com. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune since 1988. [UPDATED ON 11-22-2010]

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