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The BARBWIRE Archive

1998
The year of revolution begins today, with you

Originally published 12/27/98
Would you rather give up voting or paying taxes?
Originally published 12/20/98
The zero-based tax initiative
Originally published 12/13/98
Frankenstein casinos and the pre-assigned blame game
Originally published 12/6/98
Riverboat Casino pours water on the drowning
Originally published 12/2/98
A life sentence paying corporate welfare taxes
Originally published 11/29/98
Nevada Banana Republic makes the poor pay
Originally published 11/22/98
Newteuring our shamelessly naked voting behavior
Originally published 11/15/98
Co-dependency, primary colors and Vegas hair
Originally published 11/8/98
Are we all really as dumb as they think we are?
Originally published 11/1/98
The steel bloodstream tells no lies
Originally published 10/31/98
Sen. Washington & God Almighty, registered Republicans
Originally published 10/25/98
Missiles of October: Politics as high bloodsport
Originally published 10/18/98
Joe vs. the volcano and explosive nuclear follytix
Originally published 10/11/98
Of men and mice: fear & learning in trailer school
Originally published 10/4/98
Diamonds & literary gems from an old priest and you
Originally published 9/27/98
The most dangerous words you and I will ever write
Originally published 9/20/98
Payback time for Richard the Rotten and disaffected Democrats
Originally published 9/13/98
Labor Day, Burning Man & St. Diana, Princess of Wales
Originally published 9/6/98
Senator Jean Ford fades to immortality
Originally published 8/30/98
Robert Goofdork, unclaimed son of Aaron Russo
Originally published 8/23/98
The four-letter word which froze Hot August Nights
Originally published 8/16/98
Don't become a razor when standing at the edge
Originally published 8/9/98
The duty to die: Powerball & the American Dream
Originally published 8/2/98
Commonplace moonwalkers remain forever young
Originally published 7/26/98
Breadlines in boomtowns: the American plantations
Originally published 7/19/98
Muffins & muckrakers: 10 years before the masthead
Originally published 7/12/98
Strange bedfellows in hot pursuit of lady liberty
Originally published 7/5/98
Apocalypse Now: America with a gun to her head
Originally published 6/28/98
The mirror has two faces and all three show cracks
Originally published 6/21/98
The mountainous hands of a killer dressed in black
Originally published 6/14/98
Swatting gnats, swallowing camels & political animals
Originally published 6/7/98
Black birds, dark thoughts and the colors of spring
Originally published 5/31/98
Poll cats, windbags, dirtbags and desert denouncers
Originally published 5/24/98
Tales of Jethro Bodine and true Nevadians
Originally published 5/17/98
Render unto Caesar the things which are salad
Originally published 5/10/98
How to shrink and get fat at the same time
Originally published 5/3/98
The truth, the untruth and nothing near the truth
Originally published 4/26/98
Face to face with the Devil Children of Ronald Reagan
Originally published 4/19/98
The unified theory of the father, son & holy scientists
Originally published 4/12/98
The day Bob Price died and returned to tell the tale
Originally published 4/5/98
Groping for poetry when prose and Prozac won't produce
Originally published 3/29/98
Incorporation means never having to say you're sorry
Originally published 3/22/98
Ripped off and screwed over from Reno to Rio
Originally published 3/15/98
The high cost of low-wage work in Nevada
Originally published 3/8/98
Oprah, armadillos & mushrooms in cyberspace
Originally published 3/1/98
The news you never knew you needed to know
Originally published 2/22/98
Fear & Loathing in a newsroom near you
Originally published 2/15/98
Complaints from the living and the dead
Originally published 2/8/98
Beware the answer to the unasked question
Originally published 2/1/98
Big chills, squeeze plays and sucker punches
Originally published 1/25/98
Can Joe Neal become the Mike O'Callaghan of '98?
Originally published 1/18/98
Only a few brown Mexicans died, so who cares?
Originally published 1/11/98
1998: Year of the Pig
Originally published 1/7/98
The Reno Gannett-Journal: corporate Pinocchio
Originally published 1/4/98

© Andrew Barbano

Andrew Barbanois a member ofCWA Local 9413.He is a Reno-based syndicated columnist, a 31-year Nevadan, editor ofU-Newsand managesSen. Joe Neal's website.Barbwire by Barbanohas appeared in the Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune since 1988.

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